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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MusicThe John Knox Sex Club – Raise Ravens
At a mere six tracks long, this second album from Glasgow’s John Knox Sex Club packs its weight within its densely layered, yet loose recordings. Compa... Read more »| 20 Sep 2011 -
FilmBlood in the Mobile
Blood in the Mobile is a film of contrasts. The scorched heat and violence of Africa juxtaposes sharply with the glacial serenity of the Finnish Nokia HQ, al... Read more »| 20 Sep 2011 -
Music
Saluting Nevermind
A cursory glance at almost any “top albums” list of the last twenty years will almost always involve one familiar shot of a baby swimming after a dollar bill Read more »| 20 Sep 2011 -
MusicDum Dum Girls – Only In Dreams
On their second outing, Los Angeles’ Dum Dum Girls absorb themselves with a clutch of more mature concerns than evidenced by their no-frills debut I Wi... Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
MusicRemember Remember: Graeme Fears Satan
Before their glorious second album lands, Graeme Ronald explains the changing shape of Remember Remember and his obsession with the deil Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
Film
As If I Am Not There
Samira is a young woman from Sarajevo who moves to a tiny village to take up a post as a supply teacher. It is her first job and her first time away from her... Read more »| 19 Sep 2011
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Film
Man Of Aran
Not a new release but a recent discovery here at The Skinny's DVD reviews, this disc accompanies the British Sea Power album of the same name and features a ... Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
Theatre
Love Hurts @ Tron
Love at first Bite Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
Film
My Voyage to Italy
Martin Scorsese’s four-hour expedition through Italian Cinema 101 is well-motivated, with the director and renowned cinephile aiming to redress the Hol... Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
Music
Roots Manuva – 4everevolution
A Rodney Hylton Smith full-length usually comes with a guarantee of three things – rhymes that vary from the profound to the inexplicable, a hefty dose... Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
Art
GSA Degree Show 2011
Images from the Glasgow School of Art degree show 2011. Photography from Martin Barker Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
ArtChristian Newby @ Transmission
A large-scale, intensely patterned marbled-ink drawing decorates a freestanding wall in Transmission’s basement space. It’s stunning and compelli... Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
Art
ECA Degree Show 2011
Some images from the Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show 2011 Photography from Ross McLean Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
Art
'You, Me, Something Else' @ GoMA 16 Sep 2011 - 18 March 2012
Works by some of Glasgow’s best known international artists are brought together for an exhibition of sculpture at the Gallery of Modern Art... Read more »| 19 Sep 2011 -
Music
Teletextile – Glass
It’s difficult to fault Pamela Martinez’s Brooklyn-based Teletextile project in terms of craftsmanship. The songs here are stitched together from... Read more »| 16 Sep 2011