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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MusicTwin Shadow @ Captain's Rest, 27 Jan
For a ‘bedroom artist’, George Lewis Jr is quite the consummate frontman, more confident than the relatively low-key romanticism of his debut alb... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
Clubs
Taz Buckfaster: Future Funk
Taz Buckfaster is undoubtedly one of Scotland's most promising dubstep artists. With a huge following, multiple residencies and a slew of brutal plates of vinyl on the likes of Rwina and Subway. Having recently released the highly anticipated Gold Tooth Grin on Glasgow label Numbers, we caught up with Scotland's finest dubstep export for a little chat Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
MusicThe Proposition: The Middle Classes Cannot Do Protest Music
In the unlikely event you're reading this through a haze of cigar smoke and brandy fumes, you might as well stop now. That probably also goes for those of yo... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
MusicRingo Deathstarr – Colour Trip
Texas based Ringo Deathstarr are the latest band of pilgrims to fixate their sound on the My Bloody Valentine sonic template, so it is with some trepidation ... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: Valentine's Horoscope Special
ARIES Valentine's Day. And you don't have a date! Don't worry, once the zombie apocalypse comes you'll be able to have the date of your dreams. Next year yo... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
Books
Mills & Boon: 'I Read These, So You Don't Have To'
Valentine's Day is coming up, so why don't you read one of Mills and Boon's romance novels? Because of everything that follows, that's why not Read more »| 01 Feb 2011
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Music
Gay For Johnny Depp – What Doesn't Kill You, Eventually Kills You
It's fitting that the songs on What Doesn't Kill You, Eventually Kills You are imbued with the same sense of deadpan nihilism that the album's title might su... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
Music
Takumi Uesaka / Peter Broderick – Glimmer
With Glimmer, the aim was simple: make music for a quiet midnight, but even with the same goal in mind, Takumi Uesaka and Peter Broderick’s contributio... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
Art
Jean-Marc Bustamante @ Fruitmarket Gallery
With Jean-Marc Bustamante, the Fruitmarket is decidedly moving on from the visually striking Childish Things (Paul McCarthy’s zipped open doll, anyone?... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
Clubs
Death Disco: Pure Sorcery
The music industry seems to spend the first couple of months of the year crystal-ball gazing, looking beyond the grey mornings and trying to find the artists... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
Theatre
He's Just a Small Town Boy
Zombies in Ayrshire? It must be a social realist drama, then Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
Music
Live Music Highlights – February 2011
Blending druggy guitars, sinister ambience and wordy, gothic lyrical themes, Esben and the Witch are one of the more intriguing acts currently threatening to... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
Music
Stanley Odd – Pure Anti-hero Material EP
The Odd Squad's debut Oddio showed promise: Solareye's direct, witty, well-constructed flows meshed well with the funk-jazz stylings of the band, and Veronic... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
Music
Efterklang @ Òran Mór, 24 Feb
Still fresh from their elegant masterpiece of last year, Magic Chairs, ambitious Danish posse Efterklang head back to Glasgow's Òran Mór for a ... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
Art
Martin Creed: Yer Maw
The Skinny talks mothers with Scottish-born artist Martin Creed Read more »| 01 Feb 2011