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film
books
art
The Making of Us @ Tramway
Rob Kennedy @ CCA
Wolfgang Tillmans @ The Common Guild
New Contemporaries 2012 @ RSA, 17 Mar-11 Apr
Anna Barriball @ Fruitmarket
Matthew Darbyshire @ Tramway
Beholder @ Talbot Rice
The Turner Prize @ Baltic
Lost Lake, Chalk Burst @ Generator Projects
Against Anti-Intellectualism @ SWG3
theatre
comedy
Sloppy Seconds
Kunt & The Gang
Man Vs Woman
Jenny Eclair 'Old Dog, New Tricks'
Stuart Mitchell 'It's Just a Phrase I'm Going Through'
Doug Stanhope @ King's Theatre
David Kay 'Sconetastic'
Bruce Morton @ The Stand
Robin Ince & Michael Legge: 'Pointless Anger, Righteous Ire'
Zoe Lyons 'Some Random'
Patrick Monahan 'Hug Me I Feel Good'
Recommended events
music
- 19May
The Skinny Stage @ Stag and Dagger (Miaoux Miaoux, EMA, Bear In Heaven, Forest Swords)
Stereo, Glasgow19:00 – 00:00; £12 earlybirdThe Skinny (aye, us) present our very own stage at Stag & Dagger, headed up by Death Grips unique deconstruction of juke, dubstep, punk-rock and ghetto techno. Amen.
- 19May
Tim Hecker
Pilrig St Paul's Church, Edinburgh19:30 – 22:00; £12.50 adv.The Montreal-based ambient electronic musician and sound artist tours his latest release; a dark, organ-led gem recorded over a single day in a church in Iceland.
- 20May
Alasdair Roberts and Mairi Morrison
Oran Mor, Glasgow19:00 – 22:00; £12Inimitable folk musician and songwriter Alasdair Roberts joins forces with Mairi Morrison to showcase songs from their joint album of lost Gaelic songs, Urstan.
- 23May
Gary Numan (Officers)
O2 ABC, Glasgow19:00 – 22:00; £25The electro-pop pioneer has us screaming along to his steroid-enhanced versions of Down in the Park and Are Friends Electric?, ahead of the release of his 'Best Of' DVD in June.
comedy
- 17May
The Gong Show
The Shack, Edinburgh20:00 – 22:00; £3 (£2)Up-and-coming comedic talent compete against the clock for stage time, gong show style.
- 17May
Simon Amstell
Queen's Hall, Edinburgh20:00 – 22:00; £21.50The toustle-haired comic returns with his new show, as self-deprecating as ever – making some brilliantly nuanced comedy out of the most tragic of existential quandaries.
- 21May
Fit O' The Giggles
City Café, Edinburgh20:30 – 22:30; £3 (£2)Keara Murphy hosts a selection of acts taking in sketches, stand-up, mime, musical comedy, poetry, magic, and, well, pretty much anything else they fancy.
- 21May
Alfie Moore: I Predict A Riot
The Stand, Glasgow20:30 – 22:30; £8The former policeman talks about the history of protests and riots, obviously leading to the standard chat about where he keeps his truncheon.
clubs
- 19May
Tropical Hot Dog (Billy Woods)
The Berkeley Suite, Glasgow23:00 – 03:00; £tbcDanceable disco fare with Supermax's Billy Woods. Also perhaps the best-named club night of our month.
- 20May
Optimo: Simian Mobile Disco
Sub Club, Glasgow23:00 – 03:00; £8Optimo hand over the reigns to electronic duo par excellence Simian Mobile Disco, who take to the decks to showcase their new album, Unpatterns.
- 22May
I AM: Boat Party
The Waverley, Glasgow19:00 – 23:00; £15Resident young guns Beta & Kappa rig a ship with sound and alcohol for a Tuesday journey like no other. Pick up from Glasgow Science Centre.
- 26May
Bad News (Congo Natty, Tenor Fly)
The Arches, Glasgow23:00 – 03:00; £14Fresh night upping the soundsystem culture in Glasgow, care of the Electrikal Sound System's 26KW wall of sound and a selection of regular live guests.
theatre
- 18May
Breakin' Convention
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh19:30 – 22:00; £16.50Live hip-hop convention of B-Boys, live DJs, workshops and graffiti artists, spilling out into the theatre's foyer.
- 19May
Springtime
Tron Theatre, Glasgow19:00 – 21:00; £2.50Unique online performance created by young people from Scotland and the Middle East, performing together from their individual countries via Skype. Part of Mayfesto 2012.
- 22May
The Steamie
The King's Theatre, Glasgow19:30 – 22:00; From £13Special edition of Tony Roper's washhouse comedy, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the much-loved play.
- 23May
Tosca
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh19:15 – 22:00; From £16.50Scottish Opera take on Anthony Besch's treasured production of Tosca, which transports Puccini's drama to Fascist Italy in the early 1940s.
art
- 17May
The Skinny Showcase Shop
Urban Outfitters, Glasgow09:30 – 19:30; FreeUnique exhibition featuring seven Scottish artists handpicked by The Skinny from previous Skinny Showcase artists – with the full collection of works available to buy via theskinny.co.uk/shop.
- 17May
New Print Generation
Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh10:00 – 18:00; FreeEmerging talent showcase of graduate work from across the four Scottish Art College Degree Shows, spanning a wide variety of printmaking techniques, and including work from Skinny favourite Rachel MacLean.
- 17May
Karla Black
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow10:00 – 20:00; FreeThe Turner Prize-nominated artist takes over the ground floor of Glasgow's GOMA with a selection of major new sculptures.
- 17May
Katy Dove: Films
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow10:00 – 20:00; FreeLooped selection of four animated films from Psychology and Fine Arts graduate Katy Dove, using the role of the mind to inform her creative process.
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