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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TheatreA Rank Outsider: Peer Gynt comes South
Michael Cox looks at the East Coast's force from the frozen north. Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
MusicThe Metal Section - June, 2009
As seasons go, summer really isn't the most conducive to sullen misery and angry, clenched-fist misanthropy. It must be hard to stay mad at one's parents whi... Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
Music
Woodenbox With A Fistful Of Fivers - Hang the Noose
Woodenbox's second single, Hang the Noose, is a country tinged tale of death and remorse, and is released on the King Tuts label. Read more »| 27 May 2009 -
Clubs
It's Time for Den Haan
Search for Den Haan on Myspace, but beware of straying too far. Nick DenHaan, an overweight drummer from the Deep South, is the unfortunate second hit on the... Read more »| 27 May 2009 -
Music
Spare Snare - I Love You, I Hate You
"I don't care what you thinks." Hissing electronics snatched from early Grandaddy records and distorted with the scuzz of the Probe Plus back catalogue: this... Read more »| 27 May 2009 -
Music
Willem Maker - New Moon Hand
Given his sinister backstory, there were few career paths, other than that of the gruff, contemplative blues singer, which were realistically available to Wi... Read more »| 27 May 2009
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MusicAqualung @ Reid Concert Hall, 22 Jun
Somewhere in the darkest depths of your mind, there may lurk the faint memory of Strange and Beautiful, Aqualung's dreamy piano-led lament that in 2002 was v... Read more »| 27 May 2009 -
Film
Boccaccio '70
Buttoned down Catholicism and the resulting itch to unbutton everything: 60s Italy is the setting for Boccaccio ’70, with four of the country’s m... Read more »| 27 May 2009 -
Music
Bronto Skylift: In Bronto We Trust
Bronto Skylift are a two-headed beast currently residing in the darkest reaches of the Glasgow underground 'scene'. Creating a crushing noise that's impossible to ignore, the duo are slowly but surely turning heads and shattering ear drums. Ryan Drever has a word as they prepare to record their debut full-length Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
Music
Regina Spektor - Laughing With
Spektor has a lot to answer for. Begin to Hope’s full scale assault on the popular consciousness drove so many breathy derivatives out of the plinky pl... Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
Music
The Thermals @ Sneaky Pete's, 16 Jun
Kill Rock Stars’ Death Cab-bothering gems The Thermals bring their brand of “no-fi” indie to Auld Reekie in support of fourth full-length N... Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
Music
Eels - Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs Of Desire
Virginia's tragic hero returns with a lo-fi, tuneful offering Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
ArtDegrees of separation: Dundee Degree Show 09
The decision to move the Duncan of Jordanstone degree show out of the college itself and into a building designed as a commercial office space is necessarily... Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
Theatre
Quadrophenia
Clare Sinclair anticipates the arrival of a rock opera for the ages. Read more »| 26 May 2009 -
Music
You Already Know - Stop Whispering
Since home studios revolutionised the recording industry, more and more bands have been taking matters into their own hands when it comes to capturing and re... Read more »| 26 May 2009