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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MusicHot Leg @ Cabaret Voltaire, 5 Mar
Last seen losing to Scooch in the Eurovision heats and throwing a mini-tantrum in front of a nonplussed Terry Wogan (rock 'n' motherflippin' roll, man), Just... Read more »| 20 Feb 2009 -
MusicLadyfinger (ne) – Dusk
In the vast, arid landscape of the Desert State of Nebraska, there must be a need to vent some anger. With that in mind, Ladyfinger (ne) turn their guitars u... Read more »| 20 Feb 2009 -
FilmAm I Black Enough For You?
Billy Paul is most widely known as the singer of “Me and Mrs. Jones”, a song that sat atop the U.S. charts for three weeks in 1972 and went on to win a Gramm... Read more »| 20 Feb 2009 -
Film
An All-Fright Night
Becky Bartlett gets horror-fied at FrightFest. Read more »| 20 Feb 2009 -
MusicEmmy The Great @ Cabaret Voltaire, 16 Feb
Emmy seems to have an odd way of dealing with her emotions. Gentle songs like brightly coloured blogs, bicycles and ice cream brush over mild heartaches, exu... Read more »| 19 Feb 2009 -
Theatre
Northern Ballet Theatre
Fiona Campbell celebrates a company sensitive to technique, entertainment and emotion Read more »| 19 Feb 2009
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Music
The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
‘If you’re so special, why aren’t you dead?’ - World's On Fire Read more »| 18 Feb 2009 -
Music
Thursday - Common Existence
Impressively energetic and well-honed fifth effort from New Jersey troupe Read more »| 18 Feb 2009 -
Music
Eugene McGuinness - Fonz
A puerile pleasure. Read more »| 18 Feb 2009 -
FilmA Not-So-Old Story: Interview with John Crowley
Becky Bartlett talks to director John Crowley about his film Is Anybody There? showing at Glasgow Film Festival, a poignant drama that explores society’s attitude to the elderly. Read more »| 18 Feb 2009 -
Film
Glasgow Film Festival: Independent State
Stephen Mitchell looks at the American indie presence at GFF this year. Read more »| 18 Feb 2009 -
Film
The Class
If there‘s one scene that captures most succinctly the challenge of educating and engaging a modern, multicultural group of children in The Class, it&r... Read more »| 18 Feb 2009 -
Film
Let the Right One In
If I’d known Let the Right One In was a vampire film, I wouldn’t have bothered seeing it, which would have been very much my loss. In fact, it de... Read more »| 18 Feb 2009 -
Film
Glasgow Youth Film Festival
Don’t be deterred by the title - the Glasgow Youth Film Festival caters for all ages. Becky Bartlett finds out more. Read more »| 17 Feb 2009 -
Music
Sky Larkin - The Golden Spike
Sky Larkin's debut album, The Golden Spike, sounds like it has been carved from the earth, its rough-hewn guitar lines rising and swelling with an elemental ... Read more »| 17 Feb 2009