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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MusicThe Dirty Dozen - April, 2008
Well-travelled beatniks, white soulsters, thrash metal and Scouting For Girls. It could only be this month's singles round-up. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Music
The Kills @ The Liquid Room
Mosshart is the embodiment of late 70s DIY Punk—abrasive, antagonistic, alluring—and backed by Hince's minimalist riffs the duo make for an enthralling live proposition Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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Dirty Projectors @ Cabaret Voltaire
Obscure? No doubt. Breathtaking? Absolutely Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
MusicGrowing Old Disgracefully - The Return Of The B-52s
Along with REM, they put Athens, Georgia on the map and had a part in the rise of College Rock. With a new album on the way, Finbarr Bermingham caught up with B-52s founding member Cindy Wilson to talk about the past, present and of course, the Love Shack... Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
ComedyWil Hodgson: Straight Outta Chippenham, 9 Mar, Brel
There is a fine line between comedy and therapy. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Comedy
Stewart Francis: 148 People Can't Be Wrong - 7 Mar, Blackfriars Basement
Francis cuts a laid back figure on stage and his amiable Canadian drawl only accentuates the tongue digging into his cheek. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008
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ComedySimon Munnery - 19 Mar, The Stand
Munnery is a pleasure to watch in any guise Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Comedy
Richard Herring: Oh Fuck I'm 40 - 9 Mar, Tron Theatre
He's now middle aged and this gives him license to be as grumpy as possible. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Comedy
Phil Nichol: Hiro Worship - Wed 12 Mar, The Glasgow Stand
With a voice like sandpaper and a crazed, frenetic, stage-pacing energy, Nichols has the crowd all wired up. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Comedy
Lemoncustard Comedy Club - 16-23 Mar, Brel
Lemoncustard is a demented child's miscellany of comedy fun, and a good time for it. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Comedy
Kevin Bridges Chews Life - Wednesday 19 March, The Stand
His conversational style only serves to make his increasingly controversial punch lines more devastating. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Comedy
Keara Murphy: Little Love Affairs: Behind Bars! - 13 Mar, Brel
This character comedy about love and life is more maudlin than mirthful. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Comedy
Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live - Wednesday 19 March, Tron Theatre
The two deliver the terrifically odd and hilariously unhinged script like a pair of quarrelling old biddies Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Comedy
John Shuttleworth: With My Condiments - 13 March, Tron Theatre
We don't like to use the expression 'living legend' lightly but it seems fitting to apply it to this Yamaha-brandishing Northerner Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
ComedyJaney Godley: Tell it Like it is - 6 Mar, The Garage
When a comedian is introduced to the audience by John Smeaton, you know she's going to kick comedy's balls. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008