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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MusicMelvins - The Bride Screamed Murder
With 18 studio albums, half a dozen EPs, seven live albums and literally scores of other odds and ends scattered across the musical landscape, for Melvins th... Read more »| 20 May 2010 -
MusicHole @ O2 Academy, Glasgow, 3 May
From America’s Sweetheart to Nobody's Daughter, Courtney Love shouldn’t need Billy Corgan’s advice to know that partial band reformations n... Read more »| 20 May 2010 -
Music
Wolf Parade @ Òran Mór, 19 May
“Where’s Spencer?” shouts a hil-arious (or possibly just confused) member of the crowd. “Er, he’s there” deadpans Dan Boe... Read more »| 20 May 2010 -
Music
T-Break 2010 Line Up Announced
T in the Park may have morphed into a monolith on the festival circuit over the past sixteen years, however the folks behind the curtain have never forgotten... Read more »| 20 May 2010 -
FilmFirst Look: Get Him to the Greek
Russell Brand returns as the demented musician and partyboy Aldous Snow in a Forgetting Sarah Marshall spin-off… and the only common denominator withi... Read more »| 20 May 2010 -
Music
Gogol Bordello - Trans-Continental Hustle
Eugene Hutz and his band of merry men and women return with this Rick Rubin produced, Brazilian influenced collection of gypsy-punk anthems. Pala Tute sets t... Read more »| 20 May 2010
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MusicThe Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster – Blood and Fire
Sometimes it must be easier for a band that starts out average. Spare a thought for The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster who, from the word go, have utterly... Read more »| 19 May 2010 -
Music
A Sunny Day In Glasgow @ Nice'N' Sleazy, 15 May
Sadly, the A Sunny Day In Glasgow founding member who would be most excited about playing with his band on an actual sunny day in Glasgow has left the group,... Read more »| 18 May 2010 -
Theatre
Peter Pan
Peter Pan moves north and perhaps even grows up a little Read more »| 18 May 2010 -
Theatre
5:15 Sublimation and 74 North
Scottish Opera might be selling out the venues, but not the aesthetic: these two short operas are unashamedly serious Read more »| 18 May 2010 -
Music
Funki Porcini - On
Sampled-based music is, too often, a case of mere archaeology. As fascinating as layers of sound and history being laid atop one another might be, it’s... Read more »| 17 May 2010 -
Music
Trummor & Orgel - Visions
The Hammond organ is a funny old beast; capable of conjuring forth ocean storms of electricity one minute, and sounding like elevator muzak the next, they ne... Read more »| 17 May 2010 -
Theatre
5:15 Zen Story and The Money Man
Two of the Five "New Operas Made in Scotland" use classic forms for original expressions Read more »| 17 May 2010 -
MusicAsaf Avidan & The Mojos - The Reckoning
Straight out of Jerusalem, via a record collection that dot-to-dots Seattle grunge, seventies metal and Delta blues, Asaf Avidan & The Mojos present a pe... Read more »| 17 May 2010 -
Music
Mother Mother - O My Heart
O My Heart is the sophomore album from Canadian twee darlings, Mother Mother, offering some vibrant compositions that play with all the classical complexity ... Read more »| 13 May 2010