New Music and Album Reviews - The Skinny
WEBReviews. Album, EP and single reviews from The Skinny. Find reviews of the biggest new releases, as well as new records from up-and-coming new artists from across Scotland, the UK and beyond. Albums.
The Smile – Wall of Eyes - The Skinny
WEBJan 22, 2024 — The second studio album from The Smile, Wall of Eyes is a kaleidoscopic, mind-altering pronouncement: The Smile are not a band of their component parts, not echoes of their previous ventures.They are something exciting, ambitious, and genuinely brilliant; a sentiment delivered so resoundingly by their work here that it …
Remembering The Lapelles' Gary Watson - The Skinny
WEBAug 15, 2016 — The Skinny pays respects to Gary Watson, late frontman of The Lapelles, after the 22-year-old tragically passed away on Sunday morning. Gary Watson, frontman of East Kilbride band The Lapelles, was a talented songwriter, a champion of new music from Scotland and beyond, and an enthusiastic promoter of his home town.
Lizzie Mackenzie on The Hermit of Treig
WEBFeb 28, 2022 — Lizzie Mackenzie has brought along some porridge for our breakfast interview. Not the oaty kind but rather a four-legged bundle of furry canine curls called Brochan – Gaelic for porridge. This restlessly curious filmmaker grew up on Seil, an island just to the southwest of Oban. “Growing up on Seil had a pretty massive influence on me ...
Slipknot album review: We Are Not Your Kind - The Skinny
WEBAug 7, 2019 — Artist: Slipknot. Label: Roadrunner Records. Release date: 9 Aug. Slipknot always seem to be in a constant contest between supplying fans with early-material levels of heaviness, while simultaneously pushing boundaries as the undeniable frontrunners of modern metal. So when the band announced that …
Ten Questions for Sven Väth - The Skinny
WEBSven Väth's career in electronic music spans over 35 years, and his contribution to the evolution of techno remains immeasurable. Originally hailing from Frankfurt, the iconic German DJ and producer founded Cocoon Recordings in 2000, an imprint that has since launched the careers of many notable house and techno artists.. Väth's long-running Monday night parties at Amnesia in Ibiza, which ...
SRSQ album review: Ever Crashing - The Skinny
WEBAug 15, 2022 — There also comes a point where lyrically, the repeated seasonal imagery begins to feel less like a thematic core and more like a paucity of imagination. It’s a record that at its best is truly superb but that can’t help but tire as the record goes on. Listen to: Dead Loss, Used to Love, Ever Crashing. Ever Crashing is a bombastic return ...
Future Islands – People Who Aren't There Anymore - The Skinny
WEBJan 22, 2024 — Throughout, the group’s tried-and-true, gleaming synth-pop palette is flecked with fresh sonic ambition, particularly on slow-burning epics Corner of My Eye and The Sickness. At the centre of it all remains Herring’s fabulously expressive voice, tailor-made to spin tales of heartache. Listen to: King of Sweden, The Fight, The Sickness.
Scotland's independent radio stations and the pandemic - The …
WEBFeb 4, 2021 — David Fleming and Susan O’Neill launched Radio Buena Vida in October 2020, a project dreamt up in Barcelona and realised with the help of Glasgow’s music community. Since its launch, the station has been broadcasting three days a week and has hosted Harri & Domenic, VAJ.Power, Suzy Lee Kidd, and the Glasgow African Balafon Orchestra among many others.
Glasgow indoor skiing: Xscape Braehead - The Skinny
WEBKings Inch Road Braehead | Glasgow PA4 8XQ. Phone: 0871 200 3222. Get Directions. Since its grand ceremonial opening by none other than X Factor judge Danni Minogue in 2006, Xscape Braehead has grown into so much more than just an indoor ski slope. Boasting video arcades, clothes shops, crazy golf, …