Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
-
Music
Belle and Sebastian - G2 @ Glasgow
Stuart Murdoch, a picture of airbrushed, smooth-skinned beauty, lulls the braying audience into rapt attention, Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
The Jurors - Barfly @ Glasgow
The Jurors are a band whose intensity is building like a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico, soon to strike our shores. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
The Acute @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13th January
Underpinning the veneer is a set of songs alternatively bruising and delicate.
Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
Test Icicles @ The Venue, 14th January
a cacophonous inferno of metal-riffage, disco drum-machine beats, sampled machineguns, prerecorded pounding base-lines, math-core outbursts and electronic noise Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
State of Affairs, Private Jackson and Deadenstereo - Bannermans
without that extra something few will make it
Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicCalla - Collisions
the depth of sound and complexity of lyrics weave sultry pictures as much as they tell stories of disappointment and failed potential Read more »| 15 Feb 2006
-
Music
El Dog plus support at the Swamp Bar @ Edinburgh
Glaswegians El Dog give an intensely emotional performance Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
Stinking Lizaveta @ Henry's Cellar Bar
Doom Jazz holds the rock'n'roll flag high. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
Mitford Girls - Eponymous EP
I long for a little more lunacy, for breaking of glasses and for synth-lines full to bursting to set the kitchen ablaze Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicHarvestman- Lashing the Rye
grinding and pulsating psychedelic instrumental creations of beauty and pain Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
East West Blast Test - Popular Songs for Unpopular People
unlike many records of this type, the relentless barrage of sounds and ideas never becomes grating Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
The Kooks - Inside In/Inside Out
The perfect remedy to these dark winter days. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
The Academy Is... - Almost Here
The concert might be okay àif you're smashed on cheap cider and abhor any creativity or depth in your music.
Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Clubs
Solescience: DJ Chart
1. Paul Woolford – Erotic Discourse I [20:20 Vision] – A bonkers take on the ... Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
William Douglas - Nektar @ Edinburgh
an old man beside the fire quite wisely commented ""It's one thing to be able to write a song but it's another to be able to perform"" Read more »| 15 Feb 2006