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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MusicJazz (We Got)
Glasgow may have that whole indie rock and dance thing sewn up, but Auld Reekie has long been the place to see live jazz. This year's Edinburgh Jazz and Blue... Read more »| 15 Jul 2010 -
ClubsLocal Takeover @ The Assembly, 11 Aug
We show the tourists how it is done during our showcase at the Festival Read more »| 15 Jul 2010 -
MusicSlash @ HMV Picture House, 1 July
“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate, some men you just can’t reach.” The sampled dialogue from Cool Hand Luke is missing f... Read more »| 14 Jul 2010 -
Clubs
Hector @ Sunday Circus, 25 July
On the verge of celebrating its third birthday, Sunday Circus is now very much a key player in Glasgow’s clubscene Read more »| 14 Jul 2010 -
Film
Trash Humpers
Trash Humpers, as the title suggests, is a film about people who have sex with rubbish. Three disfigured characters squeal, squark, sing and jeer as they per... Read more »| 14 Jul 2010 -
Music
M.I.A. – MAYA
Everything's gone smoothly for M.I.A. up 'til now, but success is a double-edged sword. She's been forced to adjust for third album MAYA – also known as '/\/\/\Y/\' – and the result isn't as compelling as either of her first two records Read more »| 13 Jul 2010
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MusicDirty Projectors + Björk – Mount Wittenberg Orca
Dave Longstreth is a man with great ideas: his breakthrough album as leader of Dirty Projectors, Rise Above, was an attempt to reinterpret Black Flag’s... Read more »| 12 Jul 2010 -
Music
Tender Trap – Dansette Dansette
They’ll never admit it, but Tender Trap wear their influences on their sleeves. Straight from the title track’s opening reverb-drenched n... Read more »| 12 Jul 2010 -
Music
Kelburn Garden Party, 3-4 Jul
Despite its relatively young age - only three years and counting - the Kelburn Garden Party is fast becoming a worthy pilgrimage on Scotland's small festival... Read more »| 08 Jul 2010 -
Music
Commercial Alternative @ Mono, 4 Jul
Falafel, knitting, ginko green tea lemonade and a be-stooled artist sketching alongside snappers: seems Mono’s laidback vibe has translated to the mini... Read more »| 07 Jul 2010 -
MusicThe Coral – Butterfly House
With Oasis deceased, another sixties-indebted Brit act has obligingly assumed the proffering of perpetual ‘best since their debut’ pre-release pr... Read more »| 07 Jul 2010 -
Music
Cats and Cats and Cats – If I'd Had An Atlas
Just when you thought the ‘tweexcore’ fad had finally wilted, along come Cats and Cats and Cats to stoke the embers. Sounding like a dishevelled ... Read more »| 07 Jul 2010 -
Music
The Boy Who Trapped the Sun – Fireplace
The Boy Who Trapped the Sun apparently chose his lengthy stage name because it felt “bigger and less lonely” than ‘Colin MacLeod’. Wh... Read more »| 07 Jul 2010 -
Music
The Twilight Sad – The Wrong Car EP
Comprising of two unreleased tracks and two remixes, The Wrong Car EP is what you might call a "stop-gap" release between albums, but really it's much more t... Read more »| 07 Jul 2010 -
Music
Converge: There Will Be Blood
After 20 years, Converge have come a long way from simply being one of literally thousands of American hardcore bands Read more »| 07 Jul 2010