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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MusicPopular Workshop - Her Birthday
With Albini slapped all over it like a Nike badge, there's no escaping what Popular Workshop are going for on this single: danceable indie but with the alter... Read more »| 26 Jan 2009 -
MusicHelene - Heliotrope
Formed in 2001, London-based collective Helene's career is in danger of beginning to plateau. It's to be hoped instead that Heliotrope, their dusky beauty of... Read more »| 26 Jan 2009 -
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Manu Chao - La Vida Tombola
Singles about football often show themselves to be clunking and embarrassing affairs, so Manu Chao has given himself quite a task here. Ostensibly a tribute... Read more »| 23 Jan 2009 -
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Valkyrie
What do Bryan Singer and Spinal Tap have in common? They like it loud. Really loud. Valkyrie turns it up to 11 as it opens with a deafening mix of explosi... Read more »| 23 Jan 2009 -
Music
Animal Collective @ Glasgow School of Art, 13 Jan
If you’ve steadfastly purchased Merriweather Post Pavilion or invested in the unamimous proclamations of the music press in recent weeks, you might wel... Read more »| 23 Jan 2009 -
MusicFranz Ferdinand - Tonight
Despite their own denials, Franz Ferdinand make much more sense as a pop group than a rock band. With pop, they don't have to 'progress their sound' or 'add ... Read more »| 22 Jan 2009
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ComedyUpstanding Comedy
Upstanding Comedy tutors complete novices to get up on stage and be funny. Read more »| 20 Jan 2009 -
Music
Fancy Volunteering in Ghana? Sergeant Show You How This Thursday
Fife indie-rockers Sergeant are "Officially the most exciting band in Scotland" according to the NME, and who are we to argue [actually....oh never mind]. Th... Read more »| 20 Jan 2009 -
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Paul Goodwin - Scars
Before Everett True departed Britain for Australia, he was championing a collection of shambolic musicians who were labelled 'British anti-folk', all based i... Read more »| 19 Jan 2009 -
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Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses
After a seeming eternity out of the spotlight following the artistic sideways move that was You Could Have It So Much Better, the pressure is on Franz Ferdin... Read more »| 16 Jan 2009 -
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Cuddly Shark - Woody Woodpecker / Bowl Of Cherries
Elgin-bred punks deliver prime chunks of raw, spluttering rock. Read more »| 16 Jan 2009 -
Music
Factory Records Communications 1978-1992
From the recorded travails of Ian Curtis to the indelible sense of fun that the 'Madchester' movement ushered in, Darren Carle reappraises the Factory vaults Read more »| 16 Jan 2009 -
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Lily Allen - The Fear
Lily Allen is back, and it seems Katy Perry’s recent “fat” comment isn’t Allen’s only fame-related grievance. “I don&rsqu... Read more »| 15 Jan 2009 -
Film
Better Things
The cynic might argue that the British film industry appears to have been kept afloat in recent decades on a raft of social realism. And while directors such... Read more »| 15 Jan 2009 -
Music
Y'All Is Fantasy Island - Infanticidal Genuflector
Y'All Is Fantasy Island are a rock band, and Infanticidal Genuflector is a collection of experimental ambient soundscapes up to 20 minutes in length, their t... Read more »| 15 Jan 2009