Interviews
The Skinny discusses new releases and record choices with prominent artists and producers; covering everything from albums and songs to influences and matters of the heart.
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InterviewsThe Billy Kelly Songwriting Award is open for submissions
Before its launch this month, the minds behind The Billy Kelly Songwriting Award explain what distinguishes the initiative from your average battle of the bands Read more »| 02 Mar 2012 -
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Grimes: "There’s no time to be repetitive”
Canadian bedroom-pop prodigy Grimes reveals the lengths she’s willing to go to realise her vision Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
InterviewsSpeech Debelle Quizzes Talib Kweli
She's a Mercury winning London MC with an inquisitive mind, he's a critically respected Brooklyn rapper with heavy opinions to offload. We put the two together... Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
InterviewsThe Magnetic Fields: The Strange Powers of Stephin Merritt
Reluctant in interview but with a work ethic to make James Brown proud, The Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt explains why he enjoys a good deadline Read more »| 29 Feb 2012 -
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New Blood: Die Hard
Not the John McClane nuts you were expecting, Glasgow trio Die Hard are a talented band of mysterons who arrived overnight with a Technicolor debut. We sat down for an introductory blether... Read more »| 28 Feb 2012 -
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Lambchop: "I’m sure my doctors would prefer me to become a little more prudent"
As the world around him rushes from pillar to post, Lambchop's Kurt Wagner has always been happy to keep his own pace Read more »| 28 Feb 2012
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Pleasure Palaces: Errors
In the conclusion of Errors' five-part series on musicians' spaces in Glasgow, Steev Livingstone talks to, er, Steev Livingstone about making records in his bandmate's flat Read more »| 17 Feb 2012 -
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Pleasure Palaces: Jamie Grier
Steev Livingstone talks to The Glue Factory's resident live engineer Jamie Grier in the fourth part of Errors' series on musicians' spaces Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
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Pleasure Palaces: Mother Ganga
In the third installment of Errors' 'Pleasure Palaces' series on creative spaces, Mother Ganga's Lewis Cook tells how he gets the joss sticks out round his girlfriends flat Read more »| 15 Feb 2012 -
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Pleasure Palaces: Remember Remember
Part two of Errors' 'Pleasure Palaces' series finds Remember Remember's Graeme Ronald feeling like the janny at the old primary school his band uses for rehearsals Read more »| 15 Feb 2012 -
InterviewsPleasure Palaces: The Phantom Band
In the first part of Errors' 'Pleasure Palaces' series, The Phantom Band's Andy Wake tells Steev Livingstone about the space they make music in Read more »| 15 Feb 2012 -
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Muscles of Joy: Room of Their Own
Glasgow’s Muscles of Joy, an all-female vocal-led septet, talk about building their own instruments and jamming away rather quietly Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
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We Are Augustines: Back from the Brink
Having penned a concept album based around family bereavement, The Skinny is surprised to find a New York trio happy to be just making music Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
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The Big Pink: "We needed to create a different energy"
As The Big Pink trade in their explosive debut's distortion, Milo Cordell and Robbie Furze tell us why their live show will be all change on Valentine's Day Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
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Errors: "If certain people hadn’t been at early shows, who knows what would have happened"
Before Errors storm the land with their cosmic third LP, we sit down with the Glasgow trio to talk good fortune, aborted album titles and the joys of making a bedroom record Read more »| 31 Jan 2012