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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MusicMogwai: All the Right Moves
Presenting Mogwai's first full-length audio and televisual document of their intoxicating live show all at once, Stuart Braithwaite talks us through the creation of Special Moves and Burning Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
Music
The Vaselines: Sex With An X, Track-By-Track
Although formed in the mid 80s, The Vaselines would become a heavyweight cult concern in the decades to follow. Founders Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee were a romantic item, and when they split, so did the band. Twenty years on, they're back with a new album, the playfully titled Sex With An X. Here Eugene (with suitably cheeky interjections from Frances) talks us through the it Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
MusicLaki Mera – Clutter EP
Trip-hop may be playing its last down-tempo notes before finally kicking the bucket, but its spirit will live on in the sound of Laki Mera. The panor... Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
Music
Live Music Highlights – September 2010
September's gig schedule is completely stacked, and NYC posse Cymbals Eat Guitars will set the bar high at Glasgow Stereo on 4 Sep. With a fantastic debut un... Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
Books
Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
Life of Pi deserved all the praise it got, but Yann Martel’s highly awaited follow-up Beatrice and Virgil isn’t as impressive. The ... Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
MusicTricky - Mixed Race
Like various associates in the mid-90s trip-hop scene, Tricky has struggled to develop his style beyond his first couple of great albums. Now onto his ninth,... Read more »| 01 Sep 2010
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Film
Breathless
Godard's first and most accessible film is many things: a studied homage to his beloved Hollywood gangster films; a pioneering piece of guerilla film-making;... Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
Art
Yuck 'n Yum's Annual General Karaoke
Yuck ‘n’ Yum is a Dundee based art zine production team who have been in business for nigh on half a decade and have created some 11 issues of th... Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
Music
Interpol – Interpol
For a band that sounds as though it’s been dredged from the murkiest depths of the Hudson River, the imperially dark Interpol have had surprising comme... Read more »| 31 Aug 2010 -
MusicAdam Franklin & Bolts of Melody – I Could Sleep for a Thousand Years
Having started his career back in ’84 with Shake Appeal – who would ultimately morph in to UK ‘shoegrunge’ stalwarts Swervedriver &nd... Read more »| 31 Aug 2010 -
FilmCertified Copy
Acclaimed Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami makes his first film outside his home country with Certified Copy; a tale of a relationship that takes on... Read more »| 31 Aug 2010 -
Music
The Vaselines – Sex With An X
It’s not a record-breaker, but a twenty-year gap between albums warrants comment; to put it in context, a wall segmented Berlin last time The Vaselines... Read more »| 31 Aug 2010 -
Music
The Metal Column – September 2010
As a piss-poor summer gives way to the elemental gloom of the Autumn, you can take some solace in that, riff-wise, a particularly intense couple of months li... Read more »| 31 Aug 2010 -
Music
Beehoover – Concrete Catalyst
It’s testament to the chops on Beehoover that their skeletal line-up of one drummer and a bassist can produce such a deafening but pleasing rac... Read more »| 31 Aug 2010 -
Clubs
Tim Xavier @ Bigfoot's Tea Party, 3 Sep
The ebullient beast that is Bigfoot’s Tea Party returns to stomp all over the Art School’s chequered floors on Friday 3 September with a ... Read more »| 31 Aug 2010