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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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 -
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
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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 -
MusicPanda 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 -
MusicAutechre: Flux Capacity
Cutting through the shit to get to the root of Autechre's brilliance Read more »| 06 Apr 2011 -
Theatre
Confusion Is Sex: The Two Year Itch
For the past two years, Gamma Ray Dali has been evolving Confusion is Sex as more than just another dance club: her active interest in performance, visual art and capturing a unique atmosphere has seen her incorporate influences from the worlds of fashion, Live Art, burlesque and gigs. As April's second birthday party approaches, The Skinny decided it was time to have a word with her Read more »| 06 Apr 2011 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen – Phantom Band Takeover
Pulling no punches, Greg Sinclair and Duncan Marquiss of The Phantom Band stick it to the April singles Read more »| 06 Apr 2011