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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TheatreA Faustian Diaspora
The International Festival provides great shows in form, but what about the content? Read more »| 07 Sep 2009 -
MusicA Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar
From rapid-boil kettles to omnipresent wireless broadband, the 21st century has proven itself to be one of instant gratification - much to the detriment of u... Read more »| 04 Sep 2009 -
MusicThe Big Pink - A Brief History of Love
Like the original ‘shoegaze’ tag in the early 90s, ‘nu-gaze’ is not a genre bands seem that happy to be burdened with. The Big Pink a... Read more »| 04 Sep 2009 -
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Noah and the Whale - The First Days Of Spring
Charlie Fink is miserable. Very miserable, actually. From the first tender notes of colossal opener The First Days of Spring there is a monumental whiff of d... Read more »| 04 Sep 2009 -
Music
GusGus: - 24/7
This Icelandic electronic outfit have metamorphosed considerably since their formation in 1995 as a multi-faceted, eclectic group who aside from their musica... Read more »| 04 Sep 2009 -
MusicJeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard @ Cabaret Voltaire, 31 Aug
Following support from his brother Jack (sounding not a million miles away from Jonathan Richman) and Edinburgh's own Withered Hand, Jeffrey Lewis and band t... Read more »| 04 Sep 2009
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MusicGet Born Again: Alice in Chains resurface with Black Gives Way to Blue
17 years to the day that Dirt propelled Alice in Chains skywards, the Seattle survivors prepare to release their first studio album since the loss of frontman Layne Staley in 2002. Sean Kinney and William DuVall explain how they picked up the pieces. Read more »| 02 Sep 2009 -
Music
Strike The Colours - Seven Roads
To strike the colours at sea is to accept defeat, to surrender, to give up. As far as nom de guerre’s go, Reindeer Section alum Jenny Reeve has picked ... Read more »| 02 Sep 2009 -
Music
Kaito - Trust
Kaito, aka Hiroshi Watanabe, has long been a DJing stalwart of the US East Coast trance scene, playing in clubs like Twilo (in which Sasha and Digweed held a... Read more »| 02 Sep 2009 -
Music
Anti-Pop Consortium – Fluorescent Black
Fluorescent Black opens with a tumult of punk guitars and drums, coalescing into the electro-inflected bounce of Lay Me Down. From the offset, it’s cle... Read more »| 02 Sep 2009 -
Music
Damon & Naomi - The Sub Pop Years
Following the demise of Galaxie 500, Damon (Krukowski) & Naomi (Yang) stuck together, lowered the volume and continued in a similarly dreamy mould. Speci... Read more »| 02 Sep 2009 -
Music
Malcolm Middleton @ Cabaret Voltaire, 27 Aug
Labelling Malcolm Middleton with the ‘miserable’ tag has long since been charged as lazy journalism. But tonight, with titles such as Loneliness ... Read more »| 02 Sep 2009 -
Clubs
Den Haan @ Optimo, 6 Sep
"We're sorry!" cry Optimo. Forgiveness is granted as Twitch and Wilkes host a free night in the Sub Club with disco house heroes Den Haan. Read more »| 02 Sep 2009 -
Music
A Muso's Top 10: Strike the Colours
The next Strike The Colours album is called Seven Roads. I called it that because some of the songs seemed to take on a travelling theme, or be about belongi... Read more »| 01 Sep 2009 -
Music
The Twilight Sad: It Was All Whirlwind...
Since blindsiding us with their show-stopping debut in 2007, The Twilight Sad have enjoyed a steady ascent that few bands can hope to achieve on both sides of the Atlantic. The Skinny swigs warm Grolsch with frontman James Graham and guitarist Andy MacFarlane to ask: Can they make the double? Read more »| 01 Sep 2009