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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MusicTrembling Bells' Alex Neilson: "I’d probably be a professional footballer if it wasn’t for Trout Mask Replica"
With Trembling Bells’ third album on the way, drummer Alex Neilson is all too happy to debate the finer points of folk music Read more »| 08 Apr 2011 -
ComedyPappy's: All Business @ The Stand, 6 April
Value for money is important in these tough economic times, so it’s kind of Pappy’s to treat us to two shows for the price of one tonight. The fi... Read more »| 08 Apr 2011 -
Music
The Great Nostalgic – Hope We Live Like We Promised
Like a poorly preserved Elvis Costello action figure, The Great Nostalgic have a seventies charm that by now is starting to smell a bit off, and they bear th... Read more »| 08 Apr 2011 -
ComedyTim Minchin: Storm in a Trumpet
His debut musical has got a West End transfer, a film of one of his songs is out right now now, and he’s coming to Scotland next week with his epic show Tim Minchin and His Orchestra Tim Minchin’s come a long way for a wee lad from Perth (the other one) Read more »| 08 Apr 2011 -
MusicThe Proposition: Rebecca Frankenstein Black: or The Post-Modern Prometheus
The most ghastly thing about Friday is not the hideous auto-tuning, the stupefying lyrics or the gormless rap, it's the fact that it reminds us what a bunch of slack-jawed imbeciles we actually are Read more »| 07 Apr 2011 -
MusicRecord Store Day 2011
With downloads and tax-dodging web-retailers gobbling up sales, the humble record store’s obituary had been penned many times by cultural forecasters a... Read more »| 07 Apr 2011
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Film
Kelly Reichardt: Redefining The Western
Wendy and Lucy director Kelly Reichardt talks to The Skinny about her new film Meek's Cutoff Read more »| 07 Apr 2011 -
Music
The Donkeys – Born With Stripes
I’m no zoologist, but a Donkey Born with Stripes would imply zebra parentage, making these San Diegans zedonks. If we instead delineate their genus fro... Read more »| 07 Apr 2011 -
Music
Kyuss Lives @ O2 ABC, 4 April
‘Legendary’ is an overused epithet in music journalism, but in the case of Californian stoner-rock pioneers Kyuss, it feels entirely warranted. S... Read more »| 07 Apr 2011 -
Music
Earth @ Stereo, 5 April
In a sense, Sabbath Assembly are a headliner’s worst nightmare. Not only are they technically adept purveyors of a particularly hypnotic strain of 70s-... Read more »| 07 Apr 2011 -
Books
Glen Duncan: The Wolf Returns
Why would an acclaimed literary author write a book about werewolves and vampires? Why not, asks Glen Duncan Read more »| 07 Apr 2011 -
Film
Meek's Cutoff
In the stark, arid landscape of the Oregon Trail, a small group of people wander aimlessly towards an uncertain destination. Kelly Reichardt's remarkable Mee... Read more »| 07 Apr 2011 -
Film
Cold Fish
For a film in which giggling killers mock the size of a severed penis, Cold Fish is surprisingly restrained – at first. Passive family-man Shamoto (Mit... Read more »| 07 Apr 2011 -
Music
Panda Bear: "The guitar is still a real source of power"
Taking subtle cues from Nirvana and fatherhood, Noah ‘Panda Bear’ Lennox unveils his inner Tomboy Read more »| 06 Apr 2011 -
Art
Ric Warren: Talkin' 'Bout Our Gentrification
Ric Warren explores social and spatial boundaries. As he faces his biggest solo show yet, The Skinny meets him at his studio at the Glasgow Sculpture Studios and asks if he knows what he’s up against Read more »| 06 Apr 2011