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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FilmMuppets Most Wanted
A musical nod to diminishing returns for sequels opens Muppets Most Wanted, and while this is an overall inferior product compared to its immediate forerunne... Read more »| 26 Mar 2014 -
MusicThe Afghan Whigs – Do to the Beast
From their rough-hewn beginnings with Big Top Halloween to the enduring elegance of 1965, each Afghan Whigs album somehow arrived with the air of a moment th... Read more »| 26 Mar 2014 -
FilmCaptain America: The Winter Soldier
As homogeneous as Marvel Studios’ cinematic universe is, the attempts to play up different tones and genres with its recent lot of films have brought w... Read more »| 26 Mar 2014 -
Music
Holy Mountain – Ancient Astronauts
Glasgow-based hard rock trio Holy Mountain turn the psych-factor up to eleven on their latest release; there's a noticeably extended sense of scope on this f... Read more »| 26 Mar 2014 -
Film
Join Russell Crowe at the premiere of Darren Aronofsky's Noah
At a gala premiere at Edinburgh's Filmhouse, Russell Crowe will be in attendance for one of the first UK screenings of Noah, the new epic from Darren Aronofsky. Here's your chance to grab tickets for the event, which takes place on 29 March Read more »| 26 Mar 2014 -
Music
OFF! – Wasted Years
Some aspects of life are inevitable. Politicians will break their promises, British summertime offers more shades of grey than literary-pretentious trashporn... Read more »| 26 Mar 2014
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Music
Evil Blizzard – The Dangers of Evil Blizzard
Menacing vibes engulf the soul on the maliciously titled debut from this UK-based, Mark E. Smith-approved experimental quintet. The quadruple bass-assault is... Read more »| 26 Mar 2014 -
TheatreThe Play That Goes Wrong @ The Kings
It’s in a play that goes wrong where everything goes precisely to plan. No detail of this melodramatic masterpiece was left to chance Read more »| 26 Mar 2014 -
Music
Thomas Truax – Trolls, Girls and Lullabies
Thomas Truax first performed the music of Trolls, Girls & Lullabies last September. Rather dramatically, he did so from the confines of a metal container... Read more »| 26 Mar 2014 -
Music
HTRK – Psychic 9-5 Club
HTRK made this album in part as a response to the death of founding member Sean Stewart, who passed away in 2010. It's their first record as a duo, and ... Read more »| 26 Mar 2014 -
Film
BAFTA New Talent Scotland - winners announced
The winners of this year's BAFTA New Talent Scotland Awards were announced tonight in Glasgow, with the coveted Best New Work award going to Oh! Films for their documentary Finding Family Read more »| 25 Mar 2014 -
Music
Kool A.D. – Word, O.K.
Could splitting up have been the wisest career move Das Racist ever made? While their major-label album as a duo, Relax, was somewhat lacklustre, both Himans... Read more »| 25 Mar 2014 -
Books
Books News: Scottish Book Trust launches Scotland's Stories of Home
A brief round-up of books news – the Scottish Book Trust launches a new writing initiative on the theme of 'Scotland's Stories of Home.' Plus – poet Kevin P. Gilday heads out on tour Read more »| 25 Mar 2014 -
Music
The Fire and I – Double Kamikaze
Two-piece rock bands are something of a current trend, but The Fire and I's riff-charged marriage of crunchy leads and frighteningly precise drumming pays of... Read more »| 25 Mar 2014 -
Theatre
Wendy Hoose @ Tron Glasgow
Written by Johnny McKnight of Random Accomplice and directed by Robert Softley Gale from Birds of Paradise, Wendy Hoose tackles the difficulties of 'getting your leg over' in quite an original, yet reasonably credible way. Read more »| 25 Mar 2014