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 Xcerts - In The Cold Wind We Smile
We’ve all been there: in depths of angst, we see no way to express emotion other than through the outward pouring of aggression. The Xcerts have made t... Read more »| 24 Mar 2009 -
MusicStinking Lizaveta @ The GRV, 16 Mar
Banging heads and twisting neurons. Read more »| 24 Mar 2009 -
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Grandmaster Flash @ Classic Grand, 12 Apr
It's an Easter Sunday with a twist, as the Grandmaster himself dusts off the wheels of steel and takes his legendary hip-hop legacy to Glasgow. This show is ... Read more »| 24 Mar 2009 -
MusicThe Rakes Make Their Own Breaks
The Rakes have endured a rocky road with the critics. They’ve scaled dizzying heights of acclaim, but have also been tossed into the bottom barrel of disapproval. Lead singer Alan Donohoe tells Gordon Bruce why everyone should be back on board for album number three. Read more »| 24 Mar 2009 -
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Red Light Company @ Nice 'n' Sleazy, March 10
Disappointing effort from hotly-tipped London rock upstarts Read more »| 24 Mar 2009 -
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The Japanese War Effort - King of Poland
Quite frankly, Martin Moog appears to be taking the piss. This EP begins with a rousing sample from the King's College Choir and then Moog weighs in with the... Read more »| 24 Mar 2009
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Vessels @ Sneaky Pete's, 7 Apr
Music journalists have been sounding the death-knell for post-rock for years now, assuming that the recent patchy output of Stuart Braithwaite's likely lads ... Read more »| 24 Mar 2009 -
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Doves @ ABC, 15 Mar
Doves are out of practice. Tonight they return after four years' absence to play their high-quality songs to a supportive audience, but fail to draw out the ... Read more »| 24 Mar 2009 -
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Marianne Faithfull - Easy Come Easy Go
Marianne Faithfull has just about done it all. Drug busts and addictions, affairs with Rolling Stones and living on the streets, directly or indirectly (depe... Read more »| 23 Mar 2009 -
FilmPatti Smith: Dream of Life
Shot over eleven years, this utterly disarming documentary begins impressionistically, broadly sketching the subject’s turbulent but triumphant life in... Read more »| 23 Mar 2009 -
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Dorian Blues
Dorian is a smart teenager in high school, doing well in class and with a bright future ahead of him. There's just one complication: he's gay. Dorian Blues ... Read more »| 22 Mar 2009 -
MusicJoe Gideon & The Shark - Harum Scarum
It's fitting that this brother/sister duo were invited to support Nick Cave on tour. Their bluesy, dramatic recitals are wrought through with the same world-... Read more »| 20 Mar 2009 -
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XX Teens: Cut and paste, but don't copy
Choosing to borrow their name from a copier company was only the start of a rocky road to originality for XX Teens, Nick Mitchell discovers Read more »| 20 Mar 2009 -
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Fortune Finds Me Fit And Able: An Interview With First Aid Kit
Judged solely on musical content, First Aid Kit's début The Drunken Trees EP sounds like it was written by two wizened female folk singers in the deep... Read more »| 20 Mar 2009 -
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Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Flawed fourth album from the much-hyped saviours of metal Read more »| 20 Mar 2009