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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MusicJack Peñate @ Bongo Club, 16 Jun
Jack Peñate kicks off his summer season with a pre-festival June tour, previewing his forthcoming second album, to include new single Tonight’s ... Read more »| 20 May 2009 -
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Meat Puppets - Sewn Together
Despite Curt Kirkwood's assertions that “if I can get away with it, I'll make a record as cheap as I can and put as little work as I can into it,&rdquo... Read more »| 20 May 2009 -
MusicTeitur @ King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, 7 Jun
Ultra-melancholy, ludicrously talented, doe-eyed singer-songwriter, blah blah blah… It’s easy to dismiss Faroe Islands native Teitur Lassen as t... Read more »| 19 May 2009 -
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John Leckie: Producing the Goods
The music industry would be at a loss without British record producer John Leckie. Since he began his career in 1970 at Abbey Rd Studios as an in-house engin... Read more »| 19 May 2009 -
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Crystal Antlers @ Sneaky Pete’s, 18 May
The unifying theme of this gig was always going to be volume – as in, lots of it. But Edinburgh band Dupec (****) refuse to be blown off the stage by t... Read more »| 19 May 2009 -
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Fanfarlo - Reservoir
'The British Arcade Fire' is a label that Fanfarlo are likely becoming sick of, so often is it applied to their chamber pop magnificence. Yet for all the sim... Read more »| 19 May 2009
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Ellen Mary McGee - The Crescent Sun
Debut from Nottingham-based songwriter, rich in dark mythological imagery. Read more »| 19 May 2009 -
MusicThe Gothenburg Address - A Lesser Coming Home
These days, the 'post-rock' label seems to be bandied around in much the same way as 'prog' used to, acting as a lazy shorthand for long instrumentals with o... Read more »| 18 May 2009 -
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Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted To Sin
Trying to quantify a Tori Amos record is a fairly redundant endeavour. She's pretty much the standard-bearer for contemporary female soloists and thus asking... Read more »| 18 May 2009 -
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Jarvis Cocker @ ABC, 12 Jun
Out of the ashes of Pulp, the '90s ambassadors of Sheffield Sex City for whom the Britpop label felt more like a noose, rises the awkward phoenix of Jarvis C... Read more »| 18 May 2009 -
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De La Soul @ Picture House, 5 Jun
Pioneering hip-hop trio De La Soul return to our shores, and woe betide anyone still foolish enough to call them hippies. In the two decades since their dayg... Read more »| 18 May 2009 -
Theatre
Spectacular Debut: Scottish Opera's Manon
Nicole Hepburn looks forward to a season exotic and opulent opera. Read more »| 18 May 2009 -
Music
Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
Grizzly Bear - not the wildly esoteric beast we took them for then. The Brooklyn (yes, another one) four-piece broke on to the international stage with their... Read more »| 18 May 2009 -
Film
Tormented
Many of E4’s ‘Skins’ cast are to be found in Jon Wright’s budget Brit flick classroom horror Tormented in which Darren Mullet, a fat ... Read more »| 15 May 2009 -
Music
Hey Vampires: Blood Brothers
Hey Vampires - a Glasgow-based trio excelling in making a hefty racket - can currently be found residing in the dark dominion of many, if not all, of the Glasgow's basement venues. Ryan Drever finds them in their natural habitat. Read more »| 15 May 2009