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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MusicRoom 39 - Room 39: EP
The debut EP from Glasgow trio Room 39 is a pleasant surprise, vastly transcending the kind of pub band fodder their name might suggest. Built on a foundatio... Read more »| 17 Sep 2010 -
Music
Weezer - Hurley
It’s definitely not blue, it’s definitely not pink, it’s not green, it’s not even red, it makes Make Believe look like Rubber Soul an... Read more »| 16 Sep 2010 -
MusicRoots Manuva Meets Wrongtom - Duppy Writer
Although strictly speaking, this 'new' album from British hip-hop mainstay Rodney 'Roots Manuva' Smith classifies as a remix album, it never feels like one. ... Read more »| 16 Sep 2010 -
Art
Sara MacKillop and Mary Redmond @ DCA
A sculptor presents a solo show in each of the DCA’s two galleries for this intriguing double-header. Sara MacKillop and Mary Redmond’s displays ... Read more »| 15 Sep 2010 -
Books
The Hockey Stick Illusion by A.W Montford
The Hockey Stick Illusion is a term used by climate change sceptics to describe the graph that shows global temperatures have risen higher in recent ... Read more »| 15 Sep 2010 -
MusicIsobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan @ O2 ABC, 8 Sep
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan are a picture as they take to the stage, she in white and he in black. The angel-devil binary is so explicit they would look... Read more »| 13 Sep 2010
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Music
The Count & Sinden – Mega Mega Mega
Coming off an ace mix for Fabric, The Count & Sinden now provide a fully fledged album that shows the likes of Mark Ronson how to pull off credible, enjo... Read more »| 13 Sep 2010 -
MusicTimber Timbre – Timber Timbre
Timber Timbre is the project of Taylor Kirk, a Canadian singer-songwriter with a love for blues, folk, and country. Yup, i know, heard it all before, but Kir... Read more »| 13 Sep 2010 -
Music
PVT: Consonant, Consonant, Consonant
Australian three-piece PVT, formerly known as Pivot, return with Church With No Magic this month. Founding member and newly elected lead singer Richard Pike tells all about its creation, its contentious title and those missing vowels Read more »| 10 Sep 2010 -
Film
Mother Knows Best: Bong Joon-ho on Mother
The Korean director Bong Joon-ho talks about his highly-anticiapted new film, Mother Read more »| 10 Sep 2010 -
Music
The New Pornographers @ Òran Mór, 7 Sep
For Freelance Whales, Postal Service is a name that will surely haunt any review. The whirring keyboard is there, and the unashamedly North American, adolesc... Read more »| 10 Sep 2010 -
Music
Soundgarden – Telephantasm
Serving as something of a commercial first, this career retrospective from Seattle's ageing quartet will be bundled with the next Guitar Hero games package. ... Read more »| 08 Sep 2010 -
Music
Fops – Yeth, Yeth, Yeth
Fops are a pop superduo of sorts, comprising Thee More Shallows' vocalist Dee Kesler and Ral Partha Vogalbacher lyricist Chadwick Donald Bidwell. Their debut... Read more »| 08 Sep 2010 -
Music
Fever Ray @ O2 ABC, 6 Sep
Wisconsin based Nika Roza Danilova – known tonight as Zola Jesus – takes to the stage for her third Scottish show in only 48 hours, yet the trans... Read more »| 08 Sep 2010 -
Clubs
Slab Happy
With two years under their belt and a new label launching this month, just what is the secret behind the success of Slabs of the Tabernacles? Read more »| 08 Sep 2010