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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MusicPearl Jam: When Ten Turns Twenty
Almost two decades after it was first released, Pearl Jam's Ten arrives remixed and remastered. Jeff Ament, Matt Cameron, Stone Gossard and Mike McCready offer their reflections on the album that launched their career and nearly tore them apart. Ewen Millar listens. Read more »| 27 Mar 2009 -
MusicThe Strange Boys - The Strange Boys and Girls Club
Many bands have tried, and failed, to approximate a '60s sound. The Hives settled for a cartoonish pastiche; Oasis reimagined the Beatles and The Kinks as mo... Read more »| 27 Mar 2009 -
MusicWildbirds & Peacedrums - The Snake
Put simply: The Snake is a trip Read more »| 27 Mar 2009 -
Music
Under the Influence: St. Deluxe
Touted by Alan McGee as "a Scottish Nirvana for the 21st century" whilst also enjoying praise from Mogwai man Stuart Braithwaite, Glasgow's St. Deluxe have been making waves in their native city of late. Martin Kirwan tips his bonnet to five of the bands Read more »| 27 Mar 2009 -
Film
La Vie Moderne
La Vie Moderne is a simple, empathetic and illuminating documentary about members of a rural community in the Haut-Garonne region of France. Depardon’... Read more »| 27 Mar 2009 -
Film
The Boat That Rocked
The Boat That Rocked is a labour of love; a story of friendship and fraternity set against the backdrop of the swinging sixties, with one of the greatest sou... Read more »| 27 Mar 2009
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Theatre
Scottish Dance Theatre, Spring Tour '09
Nicole Hepburn saw SDT at the start of their current tour, and discovered a selection of engaged, thoughtful works Read more »| 26 Mar 2009 -
MusicTim Exile - Listening Tree
Introducing the boy wonder of techno Read more »| 26 Mar 2009 -
Music
Crystal Antlers – Tentacles
In the endlessly cyclical history of popular music, psychedelic rock has mostly been left to gather dust in record shops. There have been isolated attempts t... Read more »| 26 Mar 2009 -
MusicBig Ned - Big Ned
Oozing out of the stereo like a Scottish version of Danzig, Big Ned positively revel in the fact that the Devil's playground is not exclusively in the Middle... Read more »| 26 Mar 2009 -
Music
Thomas Truax - Songs From the Films of David Lynch
‘Lynchian’ has for too long been bandied around as a synonym for ‘surreal’, when it really fits only the truly unsettling and perplex... Read more »| 26 Mar 2009 -
Music
Jeniferever - Spring Tides
Further proof that Scandinavia is responsible for some of the most exciting and inventive music around just now, Swedish quartet Jeniferever are back with a ... Read more »| 26 Mar 2009 -
Music
Joe Gideon & The Shark @ Cabaret Voltaire
The rumbling applause says it all: Joe Gideon & The Shark has earned its stripes Read more »| 26 Mar 2009 -
Music
Isa & the Filthy Tongues - New Town Killers
Best not mention Shirley Manson in earshot of this band; Manson left a previous incarnation in order to become vocalist for Garbage, a move that (judging by ... Read more »| 26 Mar 2009 -
Music
Tunng with Tinariwen @ The Picture House, 21 Mar
As the centre piece of the World Music Programme at the Picture House, Tunng and Malian former soldiers Tinariwen ignore cultural boundaries to create a melting pot of global sounds. Read more »| 26 Mar 2009