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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MusicMartyn - Suburbia / All I Have is Memories
This whole Dub/Tech fusion thing is just starting to get interesting as some of the key producers become more accomplished at a sound that’s got exciti... Read more »| 26 Jun 2008 -
MusicBashy - Kidulthood to Adulthood
Kidulthood’s typically busy sounding stuff, with the lyrics painting a predictable and somewhat stereotypical picture of inner-city revenge and struggle Read more »| 26 Jun 2008 -
MusicGlasvegas @ ABC2, 20 Jun
Dawn your shades and brush your hair back. Welcome to the cult of Glasvegas. Amen. Read more »| 25 Jun 2008 -
Music
Converge @ Ivory Blacks, 15 Jul
There are few more ferocious sights in live music than Jacob Bannon in full-throttle Read more »| 25 Jun 2008 -
Film
WANTED - JAMES MCAVOY AND ANGELINA JOLIE RELEASED ON UNSUSPECTING PUBLIC TODAY
Scotland's best export appears today in his first Hollywood role. And boy, it's a biggie. Read more »| 25 Jun 2008 -
Art
If you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you @ The GRV
For the next 30 days, climbing the stairs to the GRV’s Studio Two takes you right into the liminal spaces at the edge of humanity – or so the kid... Read more »| 25 Jun 2008
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FilmThe Man Who Would Be King
As the latest Stephen King adaptation arrives in cinemas in the shape of The Mist, a genuinely creepy film derived from a 1980 King novella by writer/director Frank Darabont, Jonathan Melville gets strapped into the electric chair and is forced to watch ten films from the King back catalogue - some brilliant, some utter toilet. Read more »| 25 Jun 2008 -
Art
PLAGUES @ Transmission Gallery
The highly recommended art event of the weekend must surely be PLAGUES, a for-one-night-only performance of new work by artist Donald Urquhart, jointly comm... Read more »| 25 Jun 2008 -
Film
Hollywood's Most Wanted
The Skinny’s Man of the Year for 2007, James McAvoy, is back on our screens this month in the brilliant action extravaganza, Wanted. Based on the graphic novel by Scottish writer Mark Millar, it marks the English language debut of Timur Bekmambetov, the Russian responsible for the stunning, if insane, Night Watch and Day Watch. McAvoy took some time to tell The Skinny about his latest. Read more »| 25 Jun 2008 -
MusicColdplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
By and large, this is very much like any other Coldplay record, though it contains assured traces of a certain daring that has often escaped them in the past Read more »| 25 Jun 2008 -
Music
Appleblim & Peverelist - Circling
The latest release on Skull Disco sees two of Bristol’s Dubstep kingpins (Apple Pips and Punch Drunk label bosses) deliver one of the deepest, darkest ... Read more »| 25 Jun 2008 -
Music
Sincere - Once Upon A Time
Reggae / Hip-Hop Summer Anthem? Read more »| 25 Jun 2008 -
Theatre
Interview with David McLennan: A Play, a Pie and a Pint at Oran Mor
Something of a secret success story, Oran Mor has pioneered lunchtime drama. The Skinny gets woozily cultured in the West End Read more »| 25 Jun 2008 -
Music
Stapleton - Our Returning Champions
The circumstances of Stapleton’s formation might be textbook, but they’re no less romantic for it: future singer (Al Paxton) meets would-be drumm... Read more »| 24 Jun 2008 -
Music
V/A - Goodgreef Future Trance
This is how compilations in any genre should sound. Compilers and mixers Adam Sheridan and Tylor Leigh have fashioned, out of the 26 tracks present here, a ... Read more »| 24 Jun 2008