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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MusicConor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band - Outer South
If you’ve come here looking for a helpful soundtrack to some impending suicide attempt in a rustic shack on the edge of a steely lake in the ass-crack ... Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
MusicAdam Stafford: Do it Yourself (...or Consider Yourself Swallowed)
From his formative days as one half of the Chuck Norris Machine to releasing future classics as Y'all is Fantasy Island, Adam Stafford is not averse to a bit of DIY to get the job done. Here he writes about the genesis of his band and the organic success they've found on the Scottish circuit. Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
Music...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead @ Òran Mór, 17 April
From smashing guitars to plucking sitars; since splitting their fanbase neatly down the middle with the perceived apathy of 2006's So Divided and the lacklus... Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
Clubs
Huntley's and Palmer's Audio Club: Yesterday's Sounds of Tomorrow, Today
Shortly before bringing a rare live performance from The Threshold Houseboys Choir to Glasgow, Chris Duncan speaks to the two men behind Curious Curious and Huntley's and Palmer's Audio Club. Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
Art
Edwyn Collins - Wildlife 1
When former Orange Juice man Edwyn Collins was hospitalised in 2005 following a major cerebral haemorrhage, his family were initially told to brace themselve... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
MusicManic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
Billed as a reprisal of their darkest period’s austerity, right down to the repulsive artwork, the Manics Street Preachers’ ninth album pokes ope... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009
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MusicWooden Shjips - Dos
Man, oh man. This album should be good. It looks cool. The guys playing the music look cool. The name is suitably non-committal to suggest they don't crave a... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
Music
Deerhunter @ Stereo, Glasgow, 20 May
Bradford Cox, lead singer with arty shoegaze revivalists Deerhunter, is a giant, in more ways than one. If you were to delve into the mind of this towering f... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
Music
Isis - Wavering Radiant
Post-metal seems to spend a lot of time trying to undo Fred Durst as a musical proposition and prove once again that metal can be an intellectual entity, rat... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
Clubs
Departure Lounge @ The Caves, 29 May
Hip-hop addicts be prepared, a true master of the genre is coming to town. Departure Lounge, the bi-monthly celebration of global music, is proud to welcome ... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
Music
Gallows - Grey Britain
After a sinister opening gambit, Gallows get down to growling with a little more political venom than we've been accustomed to from the Herts quintet. Harnes... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
Music
Cryptacize - Mythomania
Judging by the connotations attached to both band and album names – mystery, inscrutability, fabling enigma - it seems Cryptacize (whose line-up includ... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
Music
The Horrors – Primary Colours
Evidently tiring of the black-fringed cartoon band they had become in the wake of the B-movie pastiche of Strange House, The Horrors shift focus to the music... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
Clubs
Last of the Mohawkes
Rosie Davies speaks to "Warp Records' secret weapon", Hudson Mohawke, about his sound, the Scottish hip-hop scene and the Luckyme collective. Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
Film
Observe and Report
Seth Rogen’s rising star falls flat on its arse in his messy and distinctly ugly new comedy. Ronnie Barnhardt (Rogen) is a boorish mall security guard ... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009