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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MusicNiYi - I Love You All / Poached Eggs
St Martin’s drop-out in arts-meets-pop collision Read more »| 09 Sep 2008 -
MusicUnder the Influence: Mogwai
Mogwai's Barry Burns walks us through five of the bands who have helped influence and sculpt the Glasgow quintet into the aural beast we fear today. Read more »| 08 Sep 2008 -
Music
Bloc Party - Intimacy
Bloc Party have learned how to use a lot of new toys Read more »| 08 Sep 2008 -
MusicThe Pictish Trail - A Powerhouse of Funk
Perfectly representing the organic mix of traditional and electronic instrumentation with quality songwriting and unselfconscious experimentation that characterises the output of the Fence Collective is Secret Soundz Vol.1, the first long-player from The Pictish Trail aka Johnny Lynch Read more »| 08 Sep 2008 -
ClubsClub Snafu: A Fourtuitous Birthday
Four years has passed since Snafu opened its doors, so with that in mind, it must be time for a four day celebration. Nicol J. Craig looks in on the northern light of music venues Read more »| 08 Sep 2008 -
Music
The Coral - The Singles Collection
When the bass of Dreaming Of You bounces out the speakers, it's easy to remember why everyone got so excited in the first place Read more »| 08 Sep 2008
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Clubs
James Holden @ After Dark, Stereo, Glasgow, 20 Sep
If minimal is the sound of the moment, then James Holden is surely a leading figure of the times. From acclaimed mix albums such as his instalment in the At ... Read more »| 08 Sep 2008 -
Clubs
Pangea 4th Birthday @ Reading Rooms, Dundee, 19 Sep
It’s been a crazy few years since Pangea first opened its doors and invited crowds to come and bear witness to the sound of Drum and Bass. With residen... Read more »| 08 Sep 2008 -
Music
Yeasayer in Conversation: Chris Keating on Beck, Barack and the Second Album
Yeasayer have been touring their debut album All Hour Cymbals relentlessly for the past year, so have Brooklyn's finest experimentalists had time to even con... Read more »| 05 Sep 2008 -
Art
Sandy Christie - Local Hero
Paul Mitchell speaks to Sandy Christie, our Art Local Hero. Sandy presents an altrnative route for artists trying to disseminate their work to a wider audience, eschewing the traditionally proscribed avenues of gallery-approved selection in order to go it alone with a system of open submissions, self-publication and guerilla exhibiting. Read more »| 05 Sep 2008 -
Music
Calexico - Carried to Dust
The Arizonan duo are simply poets who make beautiful music, and Carried to Dust is no exception to the rule Read more »| 05 Sep 2008 -
MusicInfadels-A Million Pieces
Sometimes you need to ask yourself: if the London-based band Infadels suddenly ceased to exist, what would happen to the face of rock music as we know it? Ye... Read more »| 05 Sep 2008 -
Music
Bomb The Bass - Future Chaos
Bomb The Bass is back. As if he didn't create enough devastation the first time around in the 80s with genre-defining hit Beat Dis, Tim Simenon returns to de... Read more »| 05 Sep 2008 -
Music
How To Swim Take a Run at The Mill
Ink Miller of How To Swim tells Finbarr Bermingham of his affinity with a certain Cuban dictator as he rounds up the first month of The Mill Read more »| 05 Sep 2008 -
Film
The Wave
Professor Wegner (Vogel) has been roped into teaching autocracy as part of project week at his school. His students are a mix of goths, bullies and cool kids... Read more »| 05 Sep 2008