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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MusicRobert Francis – Before Nightfall
With a rich musical heritage – including family ties with Ry Cooder - cindering good looks, and a barrow-load of brooding introspection, American racon... Read more »| 06 Dec 2010 -
MusicSteven Milne – Chasing Phantoms
Chasing Phantoms is Aberdonian Steven Milne’s first solo outing; however it’s far from being the work of a novice, with the young songwriter havi... Read more »| 06 Dec 2010 -
Music10 of 2010 (#1): Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
Pay attention: it's hard – when there are photos, graphics, animations, videos and flashing coloured boxes, links to definitions and further reading an... Read more »| 02 Dec 2010 -
Music
10 of 2010 (#2): The National – High Violet
From humble beginnings, The National have become one of the most celebrated acts around. And with High Violet, they've taken their art to a new level, as The Skinny found out from Scott Devendorf Read more »| 02 Dec 2010 -
Music10 of 2010 (#3): Caribou – Swim
Canadian Dan Snaith has been making good records for over a decade now, but in 2010 he made a great one. After years of dipping his toes into dance music, fo... Read more »| 02 Dec 2010 -
ArtLaura Yuile @ The Duchy
As with many independent galleries in Glasgow, The Duchy is an old shop front in the east end. A five minute walk from George Square, the gallery and its adj... Read more »| 02 Dec 2010
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Music
10 of 2010 (#4): Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Having had three years to stew on it, it’s fair to say that Neon Bible wasn’t the follow up we were hoping for after Funeral (our album of the ye... Read more »| 02 Dec 2010 -
Music
10 of 2010 (#5): The Phantom Band – The Wants
It could have been horribly messy, the second Phantom Band album. After last year’s debut blindsided us, seemingly from nowhere, and everyone in the kn... Read more »| 02 Dec 2010 -
Film
Outcast
Initially, Outcast seems promising, dragging the viewer into an atmospheric, contrasting world of grey, high rise council blandness and blood-fuelled pagan r... Read more »| 02 Dec 2010 -
Film
Catfish
Catfish is a film about a man who strikes up an online friendship with a seemingly ordinary family, and that's about all you need to know. The elemen... Read more »| 02 Dec 2010 -
Music
First Impressions: Anselmo on Helmet
Pantera's Phil Anselmo recalls the night he discovered Helmet Read more »| 01 Dec 2010 -
Music
Lightspeed Champion – Bye Bye EP
Was it the collaboration with Van Dyke Parks that made Lightspeed Champion (aka Devonté Hynes) churn out something so unreasonably overblown? Sure, a ... Read more »| 01 Dec 2010 -
Clubs
Club Highlights – December 2010
Christmas can be a period of difficult decisions, trying to choose presents for distant relatives and discerning friends, with few ideas or options on offer.... Read more »| 01 Dec 2010 -
Music
Larkin Poe – Summer EP
The second instalment in a seasonal series from Larkin Poe, the Summer EP arrives a fortnight before Christmas – thus the lush Americana and ha... Read more »| 01 Dec 2010 -
Art
The Mutual Members Show
Defined negatively, the Mutual Members Show has been set up to stave off inertia. If it weren’t for the four graduates who first conceived of the fledg... Read more »| 01 Dec 2010