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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Clubs
You Don't Know Pt 2: Cadence Weapon
In our continuing feature, we take the opportunity to check in with Cadence Weapon, another new and upcoming artist on the Big Dada label Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
FilmThe Other Boleyn Girl
A perfectly decent period drama. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
FilmRambo
The sparse plot is just a placeholder for some spectacular action. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Theatre
Testing the Echo @ Traverse
the widening gap between governmental legislation and everyday life.
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Music
Meshuggah: Destroy, Erase, Improve
Tech metal, math metal, call it what you will. Fact is, the ill rhythms of this Swedish quintet have influenced too many of the great bastions of modern metal to mention. Tomas Haake tells Jamie Borthwick why Meshuggah are still the underdogs Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
FilmFour Minutes
Pulls no punches when it comes to the bleak reality of life inside a women's prison. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008
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MusicNew Blood: Take A Worm For A Walk Week
Making kids cry is the name of the game as Jamie Borthwick talks jockstraps with one of Glasgow's finest up-and-coming bands, one of our picks for 2008 Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Music
Foals Let Off Some Steam
Hyped to the hilt and on the fast track to becoming as ubiquitous as chips, Foals are quickly becoming one of the country's hottest and most divisive new bands. With the imminent release of debut LP Antidotes, Billy Hamilton sat shower-side with frontman Yannis to chat about all things 'industry' over a palate-whetting glass of Campari... Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Music
Youthmovies: "Definitely not Enya"
Hold up, the silly genre name game is back! This month Finbarr Bermingham catches up with Foals alum Andrew Mears of rising 'hop prog emo jazz' stars in the making Youthmovies to find out whether the "band's band" are ready to step out of the shadows Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Film
The Accidental Husband
Fresh off the red carpet in London, Uma Thurman and Colin Firth explain why their new rom-com deserves our full attention. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Film
27 Dresses
Yes, there is the inevitable dresses montage. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Clubs
Simian Mobile Disco: Still Our Friends
PQ: One of the biggest success stories on the dance scene of 2007 was the rise of Simian Mobile Disco. The Skinny catches up with James Ford a year later to find out how their career and music is progressing.
SF: ""I think everybody who makes dance music nowadays has to have been influenced at some point by Daft Punk!"" Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
MusicVice Live Tour @ ABC2
Black Kids' nebulous 'ones to watch' status seems well justified. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Music
Super Adventure Club @ Henry's Cellar Bar
Super Adventure Club veer in unexpected but entirely understandable ways, like stream-of-consciousness prose. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Music
Pistolas @ Cabaret Voltaire
The need to dance is inescapable and sometimes that's all that matters. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008