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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ArtSmith/Stewart: What Have We Done?
Collaborative duo Smith/Stewart have been up to no good. The Skinny tries to find out what's making them feel so guilty Read more »| 11 Mar 2011 -
ArtSue Tompkins and Claude Cahun @ Inverleith House
Sue Tompkins' work seems made for the space. It sits silent and thinking in the domestic cathedral heart of the Botanical Gardens that is Inverleith House. I... Read more »| 11 Mar 2011 -
FilmNorwegian Wood
Vietnamese Director Tran Anh Hung has created a piece of cinematic beauty in Norwegian Wood, an adaptation of the modern literary classic by Haruki Murakami.... Read more »| 11 Mar 2011 -
ArtAnni Albers @ Dovecot Studios
Exhibitions that display a seminal artist alongside the works they have since inspired always make for interesting fare, and with an artist as revolutionary ... Read more »| 11 Mar 2011 -
Music
Spaceship Landing: Kyuss Lives
John Garcia tells us why Kyuss Lives. And you thought you’d never see the day Read more »| 10 Mar 2011 -
Music
The Decemberists @ Barrowlands, 5 Mar
Portland's Decemberists have been suitably bemused by their arrival at The Barrowlands on a Saturday afternoon. Colin Meloy's misapprehension of Glasgow as a... Read more »| 10 Mar 2011
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Music
Distal – Apple Bottom EP
Atlanta based producer and Embassy Records boss Distal has been causing a recognisable stir with his brash outlook on the post-dubstep Detroit sound we&rsquo... Read more »| 10 Mar 2011 -
Music
Metamorfózy – Decasia
Imagine a slo-mo flight across a snowy subarctic landscape, the sort of thing you’d see on a high-tech BBC nature documentary. Now imagine the sort of ... Read more »| 10 Mar 2011 -
FilmGFF 2011: Route Irish
In Route Irish, an ambush on the road of the same name, connecting Baghdad airport with the Green Zone, puts a licensed mercenary in a body-bag and leav... Read more »| 10 Mar 2011 -
Theatre
Wild Life @ Tron, 25 Feb
It's life, but not as we know it Read more »| 10 Mar 2011 -
Music
New Blood: Stanley Odd
With their new EP and a tireless touring ethic, Stanley Odd are taking Scottish hip-hop to the masses Read more »| 09 Mar 2011 -
Music
The Morning After Girls – Alone
Saying that The Morning After Girls sound a bit like Radiohead once did would be a fair comparison to make, but then again they also sound like Ride, The Lig... Read more »| 09 Mar 2011 -
Music
FOUND @ Voodoo Rooms, 3 Mar
‘FOUND change gear’ we proudly claimed in response to hearing the Edinburgh trio’s upcoming third album. Tonight that proves more than just... Read more »| 09 Mar 2011 -
Music
The Winchester Club – Negative Liberty
The Winchester Club are a band whose name you likely haven’t come across, they have a sound that you probably have, and yet they still make music that ... Read more »| 09 Mar 2011 -
Music
Bearsuit @ King Tut's, 6 Mar
Support tonight comes from Paisley’s Siamese Ghosts, who sound something like a male-fronted Gossip: big, soulful riffs, plenty of dramatic pauses, and... Read more »| 08 Mar 2011