Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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FilmMeeting Mr Nice: Howard Marks interview
Howard Marks, the Oxford-educated dope smuggler, discusses the adaptation of his autobiography Mr Nice, his thoughts on prohibition and how he acquired his intriguing pseudonym Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
MusicThe Phantom Interrogation: Nick Cave
Admirers of the sharp-suited poet's staggering body of work, The Phantom Band, pose their own questions to Nick Cave Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
BooksRodge Glass and Dave Turbitt on Dougie's War
Dougie’s War is a new graphic novel written by Rodge Glass (who I’m frankly getting sick of interviewing) and illustrated by Dave Turbitt (who’s a nice guy). Dougie’s War focuses on a particular issue, and a very serious one, that of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, suffered by ex-soldiers. Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
Film
October Film Events 2010
From 8-10 October head to Glasgow Film Theatre for Scotland Loves Anime, a showcase of Japanese animation preceded by short films made in Scotland. Guests in... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
Music
Team Ghost – Celebrate What You Can’t See EP
Following on from this year’s earlier EP You Never Did Anything Wrong To Me, former M83 founder Nicolas Fromageau and ‘sparring partner’ Ch... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
Music
Wino – Adrift
As he approaches fifty, metal stalwart and doom-progenitor Scott ‘Wino’ Weinrich apparently fancies himself a singer-songwriter of the Cash/Dylan... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010
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MusicKurt Wagner & Cortney Tidwell Present Kort – Invariable Heartache
As musical partnerships go, Kurts and Cortneys go together less like a horse and carriage than a horse and a grunge Yoko prone to worrying Twitter-spasms. We... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
Clubs
Gold Panda: Well Groomed
One of the golden boys (excuse the pun) of 2010, Essex beatsmith Gold Panda talks about sampling, Ghostly International and the progress of his live show Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
Music
Squarepusher presents Shobaleader One – d'Demonstrator
Whether or not its highly dubious back-story is a smoke screen (allegedly Shobaleader One is a band formed by Tom Jenkinson together with a bunch of ... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
Music
The Last Battle – Heart of the Land, Soul of the Sea
For a band of six, Edinburgh’s The Last Battle sport a frail, minimal sound on debut album Heart of the Land, Soul of the Sea, based almost entirely on... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
FilmBrother
“You Japanese are so inscrutable”. It is a relief when a character says this in Brother for Beat Takeshi always has me reaching for the thesaurus... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
Music
Glasser – Ring
Glasser is Cameron Mesirow, a precociously gifted songwriter who, in crude splicing terms, evokes a Bat For Lashes/Dirty Projectors love affair on her revela... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
Music
Iain Campbell – ABSOLUTELY the best ABBA since ABBA
With numerous high-profile and high-concept multi-media performances and exhibitions now under his belt, the man formerly trading under the moniker +Do-NEIMA... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
Music
The Phantom Band – The Wants
Following on from last years’ blindsiding debut Checkmate Savage, feral Glaswegian sextet The Phantom Band have wasted precious little time in surfing ... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
Music
Belle & Sebastian – Write About Love
If the near-five year wait since The Life Pursuit and last year’s brilliant brace of albums from Camera Obscura and Butcher Boy led you to question Bel... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010