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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MusicA Muso's Top 10: WHY?
Since Alopecia came out, we've been on tour for maybe half of those months. We've been all over the US twice, all over Europe four times, Japan once and Isra... Read more »| 25 Sep 2009 -
Film
Crying with Laughter
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MusicShields Up - Shields Up
This five-piece hardcore troupe, hailing from Edinburgh, have certainly hit the ground running. Formed in the first half of 2009, they recorded t... Read more »| 25 Sep 2009 -
MusicThavius Beck - Dialogue
Big Dada continue their mission to sign every single groundbreaking hip-hop act in the world. Perhaps because Thavius Beck laces his lyrics integrally with h... Read more »| 25 Sep 2009 -
MusicPaper Planes - Doris Day
The multinational Paper Planes are three quarters Scottish, one quarter American. One listen to Doris Day and you’ll probably have a hunch as to which ... Read more »| 25 Sep 2009 -
Music
Ash - True Love 1980
It's a long time since anyone really cared about Ash, so in a valiant attempt to halt their decline, the Northern Irish rockers have promised to releas... Read more »| 25 Sep 2009
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Music
Massive Attack – Splitting the Atom EP
Having allegedly shelved sessions with Liz Frazer and Mike Patton, the standard for Massive Attack’s new studio output must be through the roof, right?... Read more »| 25 Sep 2009 -
Music
Oxjam Glasgow Takeover, 24- 25 Oct
Last year Oxjam commandeered Ashton Lane and scored an impressive lineup including Skinny faves Meursault and Eagleowl. For 2009’s Glasgow Takeover the... Read more »| 25 Sep 2009 -
Music
Wonderswan - Furrrpile
Leeds quartet Wonderswan say on their MySpace that they formed out of "a shared love for scuzzy 90s lo-fi slacker bands." No shit! The reason everyone's gone... Read more »| 25 Sep 2009 -
Film
The Beaches of Agnes
A delightful and idiosyncratic autobiographical documentary from one of cinema’s greatest directors: Agnes Varda. The Beaches of Agnes combines clips f... Read more »| 25 Sep 2009 -
Books
Transition By Iain Banks
Iain Banks’ new book is of a sort that Iain M Banks could have put his name to – because this book, though it has a (sort of) contemporary settin... Read more »| 25 Sep 2009 -
Clubs
Launch Me Into Space
Underground label Solardisco Recordings is making quite a name for itself with a radio show, club night and now releases in association with New York label DFA Read more »| 25 Sep 2009 -
Theatre
An Argument about Sex
An age-old row is set in the contemporary world: Stewart Laing and Pamela Carter get ready to rumble. Read more »| 25 Sep 2009 -
Music
First Aid Kit - Hard Believer
With Fleet Foxes and Animal Collective opening the log cabin door for the plaid-shirted flocks of pastoral folk bands, it’s likely First Aid Kit will s... Read more »| 24 Sep 2009 -
Music
Kurt Vile – Childish Prodigy
Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty were referenced in reviews of last year’s compilation Constant Hitmaker, but on the evidence of this record Kurt Vile i... Read more »| 24 Sep 2009