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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MusicChris Bradley - Voices
Bradley’s predominantly country-folk thing ultimately proves less dusky ode, more simple, straw-in-mouth knees-up Read more »| 30 Jun 2008 -
MusicAlbert Hammond Jr - ¿Cómo Te Llama?
It's sometimes difficult to get too excited about side-projects, no matter the sincerity invested in them Read more »| 30 Jun 2008 -
MusicLive Music Highlights - July, 2008
Edinburgh Isosceles couldn’t sound more Glasweigian if they tried, so if you dig on choppy riffs, hip-shaking rhythm sections and an oh-so-insouicant ... Read more »| 30 Jun 2008 -
Clubs
Mark E @ Dance! Dance! Dance!, Twisted Wheel, Glasgow, 11 Jul
The Jisco! head will definitely make you Dance! Dance! Dance! Read more »| 30 Jun 2008 -
Music
James Blunt - I Really Want You
The use of ‘really’ in song lyrics is almost always redundant. Ray Davies pulled it off in You Really Got Me, because the next line is ‘you... Read more »| 30 Jun 2008 -
Books
Rodge Glass: One to Watch
Or, how to write a second novel whilst nearly losing your mind in the process. Read more »| 29 Jun 2008
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TheatreFeast @ Arta
Food and theatre are the perfect partners: a new company brings them together. Read more »| 28 Jun 2008 -
MusicIzzie Voodoo – The Push (Basilica Music)
Music for the internet generation. This really should be circulated on teenage MySpaces, where I'd never have to listen to it. To be fair the industro-rock i... Read more »| 28 Jun 2008 -
Music
Dananananaykroyd Canananananyfail
They may claim to produce 'Idiot Rock Music', but when Billy Hamilton catches up with Dananananaykroyd's Calum Gunn he finds an ambition to conquer Eurovision lurking beneath their ear-piercing sounds Read more »| 27 Jun 2008 -
Music
Atmosphere @ Voodoo Rooms, 17 Jun
Atmosphere may never own a private jet, but they'll never want for a place to crash Read more »| 27 Jun 2008 -
Music
Trentemöller - Live in Concert EP (Poker Flat)
Taken from last year’s Roskilde festival performance, this 4-track EP captures perfectly the energy of the band’s live performances. Take Me Into... Read more »| 27 Jun 2008 -
Music
Ironik - Stay With Me
Stay With Me magically sounds as though it was thrown together in a matter of seconds. This translates as a sense of spontaneity and imbues the vocals with a... Read more »| 27 Jun 2008 -
Music
Kidz In The Hall - The In Crowd
Kidz In The Hall’s sophomore effort, The In Crowd, combines a broad palette of sounds that will please even the pickiest headz out there. Thirteen out ... Read more »| 27 Jun 2008 -
Music
Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing
Mixtapes are changing the game in hip-hop, and Wale's new one is up there with the very best Read more »| 27 Jun 2008 -
Clubs
Numbers 5th Birthday @ Sub Club, Glasgow, 4 Jul
Situated in the basement of a curry house, it's the perfect venue for the residents’ spicy, grimey fusion of bass-banging techno and booty-bumping hip-hop Read more »| 27 Jun 2008