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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Music
Ari Up @ The Hold
Typical Girl, she ain't Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Clubs
Justice (LIVE) & Busy P, The Arches, Glasgow, 8 Sept
They're so trendy right now it hurts your little fitted black leather jacket Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Music
The Locust - On the Swarm
All these so-called extreme genres are becoming mass marketed, so maybe in five years all these bands are going to be the norm, and when that happens I guess we're going to have to try something else.
Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Music
The Pendulums - New World Nova EP
Given a little time, you'll soon clock on to these sumptuous acoustic gems Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Music
Various Artists - Chairman of the Board: Surf Soundtracks '64-'74
Like, totally gnarly dude. Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Music
Refuse Boy - Fear of Beards
A battle between youthful enthusiasm and inexperience. Read more »| 08 Sep 2007
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MusicGravenhurst - The Western Lands
A silky odyssey of gentle, dreamlike melodies Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Music
God-Fearing Atheists - Rustbelt Sun
the GFA are firmly in the United States of Country Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Film
Rediscovered Classic - The Sound of Music
Leave all your prejudices at home Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Film
Disturbia
Wit, suspense, and just a hint of sex. Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Clubs
Four Tet, Classic Grand, 27 Jul
Recreating Brazil amid the apocalyptic weather of this Glaswegian summer isn't easy Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Music
Os Mutantes @ Old Fruitmarket
Cheesy synths and poor acoustics fail to do justice to their genius Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
ComedyBreaking the law
There is cleverness to the zaniness because Law understands the comedy conventions and rules: what he enjoys is subverting them. Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
MusicA Muso's Top 10: Rage Against the Machine
Calm like a bomb, Tom Morello doles out the playlist for his own Guerilla Radio; revolutionary jams especially for you, dear Skinny reader, to track down and fight the power to... Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
MusicPinback - "Not rocking...but heavier!"
"We're just two guys saying 'Hey! Wanna write some music?' We're not trying to be rock stars" - Zach Smith Read more »| 08 Sep 2007