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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MusicThe Prodigy: Break & Enter
With the strength of Liam Howlett’s bedroom-born endeavours, The Prodigy were never going to stay on the shelf for long. But it had to start somewhere, and if you want to get to the heart of what makes a good band great, then why not ask the man who signed them? Dave Kerr grabs a word with Nick Halkes, founder of XL Records. Read more »| 31 Mar 2009 -
MusicElvis Perkins: Checking out of Heartbreak Hotel?
Once a solo troubadour, this month Elvis Perkins emerges with a full band and a sequel to his compelling 2007 debut. Paul Mitchell finds out how becoming a frontman has afforded him a greater freedom, In Dearland. Read more »| 31 Mar 2009 -
Music
Camera Obscura: Going Over the Top
Camera Obscura's Gavin Dunbar and his trusty Rock Soldiers emerge from a year's incarceration to bring us My Maudlin Career. Here he weighs up life down in the bunker against time spent on the road. Read more »| 31 Mar 2009 -
MusicA Muso's Top 10: Conrad Keely
Before those perennial Texan hellraisers ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead swoop down on Glasgow to tout the fruits of current effort The Century ... Read more »| 30 Mar 2009 -
MusicButcher Boy - React Or Die
Butcher Boy's second album picks up where they left off on album number one with another exemplary effort Read more »| 30 Mar 2009 -
Clubs
Inner City Acid @ Pivo Pivo, 10 Apr
The puppet master pulling all the strings at Inner City Acid this month is none other than Grant Wilson-Claridge, aka DJ Rephlex Records. The well-informed a... Read more »| 30 Mar 2009
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Music
Record Store Day
On Saturday 18th April thousands of independently owned music stores across the world will celebrate 'Record Store Day.’ Over 50 independent record shops across the UK will participate. Special events are being planned such as free in-store performances by some of the best live acts and DJs around, signing sessions, free label samplers and goodie bags as well as Record Store Day exclusive vinyl and CD releases. Paul Mitchell sounds out the initiative with Rough Trade founder Geoff Travis and Avalanche Records boss Kevin Buckle Read more »| 30 Mar 2009 -
Music
Caroline Weeks - Songs for Edna
Bat for Lashes collaborator Caroline Weeks releases her solo debut record, a nine-track tribute to American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay Read more »| 30 Mar 2009 -
Music
Super Furry Animals - Dark Days / Light Years
Dark Days/Light Years was not recorded in a studio by mere mortals with guitars; it was cooked up in a laboratory by third-eyed hippies with primary coloured... Read more »| 27 Mar 2009 -
Music
Live Music Highlights - April, 2009
The Hinterland festival 2009 takes place across multiple venues and features the cream of the crop in real indie rock Read more »| 27 Mar 2009 -
Music
Lau - Arc Light
You know that Celtic folk music TV show on late at night, when most are either out, or asleep because they aren’t? Scottish boys Lau belong there. That... Read more »| 27 Mar 2009 -
Music
Pearl Jam: When Ten Turns Twenty
Almost two decades after it was first released, Pearl Jam's Ten arrives remixed and remastered. Jeff Ament, Matt Cameron, Stone Gossard and Mike McCready offer their reflections on the album that launched their career and nearly tore them apart. Ewen Millar listens. Read more »| 27 Mar 2009 -
Music
The Strange Boys - The Strange Boys and Girls Club
Many bands have tried, and failed, to approximate a '60s sound. The Hives settled for a cartoonish pastiche; Oasis reimagined the Beatles and The Kinks as mo... Read more »| 27 Mar 2009 -
MusicWildbirds & Peacedrums - The Snake
Put simply: The Snake is a trip Read more »| 27 Mar 2009 -
Music
Under the Influence: St. Deluxe
Touted by Alan McGee as "a Scottish Nirvana for the 21st century" whilst also enjoying praise from Mogwai man Stuart Braithwaite, Glasgow's St. Deluxe have been making waves in their native city of late. Martin Kirwan tips his bonnet to five of the bands Read more »| 27 Mar 2009