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 Savings and Loan – Today I Need Light
The Savings and Loan aren’t looking for an It’s-a-Wonderful-Life, community-spirit bail-out on their debut – just a stiff drink. As a guest... Read more »| 25 Nov 2010 -
MusicFrank Turner – Rock & Roll EP
Evolving from bitter, acoustic punk – from tracks Thatcher Fucked the Kids and Once We Were Anarchists to the mellowness of the former Million Dead fro... Read more »| 25 Nov 2010 -
FilmPlaytime & Les Vacances de M. Hulot
Jacques Tati's character Monsieur Hulot was France's answer to Charlot (their fond nickname for Charlie Chaplin) in the 1950s. If you've seen The Illusionist... Read more »| 25 Nov 2010 -
Music
Sophie's Pigeons – Names and Pictures
A curse on you, Urban Dictionary. we could have happily lived our lives believing the only definition of ‘trunkle’ was ‘tree monster foe of... Read more »| 25 Nov 2010 -
Film
Monsters
Gareth Edwards' low-budget post-apocalyptic thriller, Monsters, hits UK cinemas after nine long months on the road at festivals from South By Southwest ... Read more »| 25 Nov 2010 -
Music
Johnny, not Jenny
Scottish-American folk troubador Johnathan Rice has teamed up with his girlfriend (Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis). They're called Jenny and Johnny (very cute) and this, in Johnny's words, is their story Read more »| 24 Nov 2010
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Music
Bruce Springsteen – The Promise
As Sick Boy observed to Renton one myth-making afternoon in an Edinburgh park: “Well, at one time, you’ve got it, and then you lose it,” an... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
Music
Rose Kemp – Golden Shroud
It’s fair to say Rose Kemp is carving a distinctive niche for herself. The daughter of Steeleye Span members Rick Kemp and Maddy Prior, her vocal style... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
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Julia Stone – The Memory Machine
Successful brother-sister bands are rare – apart from The Knife and sibship supergroup The Magic Numbers, it seems the creepiness of singing about love... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
Art
Simon Starling @ The Modern Institute
Simon Starling's show at The Modern Institute is just the kind of essayist rubbish that I've come to expect from the 'vibrant' Glasgow art scene. I'm sure I'... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
Music
Cold In Berlin – Give Me Walls
This London-based four piece specialise in a kind of pummelling, apocalyptic goth-garage, and sound like they’d be a lot of fun live. Their debut never... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
Music
Fear Factory @ QMU, 16 Dec
Pop had John and Paul; folk had Simon and Garfunkel; and industrial metal had Burton C. Bell and Dino Cazares. Rightly or wrongly, if you were a Kerrang!-rea... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
Music
Various Artists – Electropapknit Volume 1
In the first of what will hopefully be a lengthy run, Glasgow-based DIY promoters Electropapknit deliver a stock-take of the Scottish underground, a perfect ... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
Music
The Phantom Band @ Òran Mór, 21 Nov
It was a no-brainer really. With nary a bad song in their repertoire and playing the superb Òran Mór to an eager, almost ecstatic, homecoming c... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
Film
Little Big Soldier
You know where you are with Jackie Chan. He's the lovable king of action comedy who can turn any situation into a whirlwind of martial arts slapstick. You mi... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010