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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MusicDoves - Kingdom of Rust
It's a truism that you can't judge a book by its cover, one that could equally apply to music. Doves look like the archetypal northern band, seemingly origin... Read more »| 14 Apr 2009 -
MusicStórsveit Nix Noltes: For Indie Kids and Their Grannies
Chaotic and all-encompassing, mayhemic Icelandic 11-piece Stórsveit Nix Noltes let Billy Hamilton know how much crunch there is in their musical credit... Read more »| 14 Apr 2009 -
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HEALTH - Die Slow
HEALTH provide the soundtrack to the apocalypse, and it's funky. Read more »| 14 Apr 2009 -
MusicMagik Markers - Balf Quarry
After years of numerous CD-R releases and punishing live shows, Magik Markers release their first album for Drag City Records. Read more »| 13 Apr 2009 -
Art
Mass Damper @ Generator Projects
At the centre of George Henry Longly’s show Mass Damper, in the middle of a darkened gallery, a snake eats a mouse on an endless loop. The DVD is shot ... Read more »| 13 Apr 2009 -
MusicThe Prodigy @ SECC, 7 Apr
Reintroducing the SECC to an inimitable brand of chaos with World’s on Fire, only Liam Howlett could wrap a sample of Jim Morrison around a twisted fai... Read more »| 10 Apr 2009
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Music
Golden Silvers - True Romance Single Review
Is it possible for Golden Silvers to have anymore of an Eighties fixation? With a name like that, it's no surprise to hear disco basslines and New Romantic s... Read more »| 10 Apr 2009 -
Film
Tony Manero
Like Germany, Russia and many former eastern bloc countries, Chile has in the last few years been utilising cinema to explore the turmoil of its twentieth ce... Read more »| 10 Apr 2009 -
Music
Nacional: Bright Young Things
They haven't even released their debut album yet, but have been garnering praise from Mercury Prize winner Guy Garvey. Finbarr Bermingham spoke to Nacional to find out what the fuss is all about. Read more »| 09 Apr 2009 -
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Dananananaykroyd @ Cabaret Voltaire, 7 Apr
Some people say Dananananaykroyd are the best live band in Britain. They're right. Read more »| 09 Apr 2009 -
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Zarboth - Zarboth
As pioneers and masters of wildly shifting, cocks-in-hand, instrumental alt-rock, Oxes have become something of an easy solution for reviewers confronted by ... Read more »| 09 Apr 2009 -
Clubs
Balkanarama @ Studio 24, 18 Apr
In the struggle to become the most interesting club night in Scotland, Balkanarama is rapidly proving that it has what it takes. The Balkan inspired night is... Read more »| 09 Apr 2009 -
Music
Orchestra Baobab @ The Picture House, 5 Apr
With savvy young Brooklynites paying homage to Afro-beat and seasoned acts like Youssou N’Dour and Amadou & Mariam finally gaining crossover succes... Read more »| 09 Apr 2009 -
MusicThe Hands of the Wrong People - Spring Flakes
The Hands of the Wrong People are two-thirds German, but their sensitive, atmospheric guitar rock owes much to Scottish indie-pop tradition. While the band c... Read more »| 09 Apr 2009 -
Music
Broken Family Band - Please and Thank You
For Album Number Seven, most of the comparisons applied to the Broken Family Band’s past albums still stand: wittily cynical lyrics set to music that&r... Read more »| 09 Apr 2009