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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MusicTelegraphs - We Were Ghosts
It would be too easy to dismiss We Were Ghosts as an emo record released by a band full of pretty people who fool no one with the heavy eye make-up. There's ... Read more »| 29 Jun 2009 -
MusicLife on Mars
Having already danced with the supernatural on their last album, 2009 finds The Mars Volta dogged by another old ghost. But Omar Rodriguez-Lopez tells Dave Kerr that he won’t be press ganged into reforming At the Drive-In. Read more »| 26 Jun 2009 -
Music
Silversun Pickups: Gonna Make You Swoon
Although still paying dues on these shores, LA’s Silversun Pickups are becoming a big name in their home country. Nikki Monninger tells Darren Carle they're all the happier for it. Read more »| 26 Jun 2009 -
MusicApostle of Hustle - Eats Darkness
Hailing from the Arts & Crafts stable, Apostle of Hustle are a suitably patchwork ensemble of artists, most notably Andrew Whiteman of Broken Social Scen... Read more »| 26 Jun 2009 -
Theatre
Latitude 2009
Gareth K Vile shows his age once again: rather than going to a festival for drugs and relentless partying, he can't wait to see the opera. Read more »| 26 Jun 2009 -
Music
Spinnerette - Spinnerette LP
After a marriage, a child and a whole mess of label problems, Brody Dalle's new outfit has finally landed. Featuring fellow ex-Distiller Tony Bevilacqua, Ala... Read more »| 26 Jun 2009
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Music
Michael Jackson has died
Michael Jackson has died in hospital at age 50, after suffering a suspected heart attack, according to popular entertainment website TMZ. The "king of pop" ... Read more »| 25 Jun 2009 -
Music
Future of the Left: Falco vs The Middle Class
If you’ve ordered the new Future of the Left album from the band’s website and received the legitimate MP3s in the meantime, we salute you. If you’re waiting for the actual physical release to savour one of the albums of the year, even better. But if you’ve illegally downloaded Travels With Myself and Another and are feeling a bit smug about it, frontman Andy Falkous would like a word with you Read more »| 25 Jun 2009 -
MusicZappa Plays Zappa @ Picture House, 18 Jun
Treating the crowd to as many favourites as it is possible to cram into one evening’s entertainment, from Peaches En Regalia through Montana and finall... Read more »| 25 Jun 2009 -
MusicThe Mars Volta - Ochtahedron
When your debut album is a modern masterpiece that undulates from the proggy stratospheres right down to the gritty slums of salsa-punk, you’re left wi... Read more »| 25 Jun 2009 -
Music
The Thermals @ Sneaky Pete's, 16 Jun
Now seven years in, it's perplexing that the Thermals aren't playing much larger venues by now, but it's hard to complain when you're standing within spittin... Read more »| 25 Jun 2009 -
Music
Wickerman 2009 @ Dundrennan, 24-25 Jul
One of the more distinctive – and fast becoming one of the most well-regarded – festivals on the Scottish circuit, Wickerman returns for an eight... Read more »| 25 Jun 2009 -
Film
Shirin
The human face has fascinated artists and filmmakers for centuries. It has inspired some of the most memorable moments in movie history, from the closing sce... Read more »| 24 Jun 2009 -
Books
Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks by Alan Coren
Alan Coren was familiar to many from TV and radio panel shows up until his death in 2007. He was a very funny man in those, and he is a very funny man in thi... Read more »| 24 Jun 2009 -
Music
6 Day Riot - 6 Day Riot Have A Plan
Glaswegian singer/songwriter Tamara Schlesinger suffered a setback last year when half her band split on the eve of a tour. Luckily for us, ambition won out ... Read more »| 24 Jun 2009