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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MusicKatzenjammer – Le Pop
Who are Katzenjammer? It’s a tougher question than you’d think: they’ve a German name, a French album title, a Balkan whirl of a lead singl... Read more »| 05 Oct 2010 -
TheatreLustre @ Ivory Blacks
Within the burlesque scene, there are more nights popping up than you can shake a stick at Read more »| 05 Oct 2010 -
Music
The Fruit Tree Foundation presents Music Like A Vitamin @ HMV Picture House, 1 Oct
Idlewild’s Rod Jones and former Delgado Emma Pollock have been ploughing the admirable Music Like A Vitamin furrow for a few years now, gathering toget... Read more »| 04 Oct 2010 -
MusicDetachments - Detachments
Anyone who watched the BBC's recent documentary Synth Britannia will know that around the early 1980s a group of unlikely heroes pioneered a minimalist, synt... Read more »| 04 Oct 2010 -
FilmRestrepo
Considering the controversy surrounding last year’s Associated Press photograph of a dying US marine (deemed appalling by the disgusted and insigh... Read more »| 04 Oct 2010 -
Film
The Losers
A crack commando unit are framed for a crime that they didn't commit and have to go on the run to clear their names. If you can find them … Cue brass ... Read more »| 04 Oct 2010
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Film
Night of the Demons
Freddy vs Jason veteran Monica Keena does well in this low rent remake of the 80s sex 'n' splatter classic, but it's Edward Furlong as a strung out gatecrash... Read more »| 04 Oct 2010 -
Music
Father Murphy – No Room For The Weak EP
Italian trio Father Murphy follow their …And He Turned To The Sun album with three new songs and a cover of Leonard Cohen’s There Is A War. If y... Read more »| 04 Oct 2010 -
Theatre
Swan Lake @ The Theatre Royal
In a 21st century world, arts need to continually evolve and grow in order to remain relevant Read more »| 03 Oct 2010 -
Music
The Metal Column - October 2010
The remainder of the year is about to serve up an uncivil barrage of ear-baiting terror, as if to coincide with the impending winter darkness. But rather tha... Read more »| 01 Oct 2010 -
Music
John Legend & The Roots – Wake Up!
Few musicians seem to make overtly political records these days: the Iraq war moved few songwriters to sing out, and despite its catastrophic effects, there&... Read more »| 01 Oct 2010 -
MusicGrinderman @ Barrowlands, 28 Sep
Grinderman have described their causa causans as an “excuse to make a fucking racket”; turns out that this is something they’re particularl... Read more »| 01 Oct 2010 -
Music
Manic Street Preachers @ O2 Academy, 29 Sep
A boa wrapped around a mic stand, a white Gibson being tuned by a roadie, and an empty space to the left of the stage: the Manics don’t have to be perf... Read more »| 01 Oct 2010 -
Music
Broken Records – Let Me Come Home
With its own sense of self-importance, Broken Records debut album reached for the heavens but ended up leaving some listeners firmly grounded. At times secon... Read more »| 01 Oct 2010 -
Music
Belvedere Mountain Express – Cauldstane Slap
On Cauldstane Slap, Edinburgh’s Belvedere Mountain Express explore a strain of playful, nostalgic electronica overlaid with accordion and, on four of t... Read more »| 01 Oct 2010