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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Music10 of 2010 (#10): Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
Halcyon Digest is about as descriptive a name as can be imagined for Deerhunter’s fourth album. Singer Bradford Cox further describes it as a response ... Read more »| 29 Nov 2010 -
Music
In Interview: Ghostly International's Matthew Dear
Before bringing his new live show to Edinburgh and Glasgow this December,Matthew Dear talks gear, aesthetics, and the making of Black City Read more »| 29 Nov 2010 -
MusicWalking the Margins: Paul Smith interviewed
Taking a break from his frantic charge at the helm of Maximo Park, Paul Smith explains why some songs were meant to be sung solo Read more »| 29 Nov 2010 -
MusicVarious Artists – The Sound of Siam: Leftfield Luk-Thung, Jazz & Molam in Thailand 1964-1975 Soundway
While Japanese and Chinese takes on Western musical styles are well documented, Thailand has always remained something of an unexplored frontier which makes ... Read more »| 29 Nov 2010 -
Books
101 Whiskies To Try Before You Die by Ian Buxton
Rather like a drop or two of water in a dram of single malt, Ian Buxton’s lively guide opens the subject of whisky up and lets it breath. Designed to a... Read more »| 29 Nov 2010 -
Music
Pulled Apart By Horses @ Òran Mór, 23 Nov
Bronto Skylift kick-start a crammed bill at the Òran Mór tonight like the reliable sonic jackhammers we know and love, doling out thick cuts of... Read more »| 29 Nov 2010
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Music
Torche @ Stereo, 24 Nov
Torche are a conundrum. Like: Are they even metal? Coming into Glasgow's Stereo, the band's got a low end that could rattle fillings loose and a massive soun... Read more »| 29 Nov 2010 -
Theatre
Quite A' Right
SDT: NQR or PDG? Read more »| 29 Nov 2010 -
MusicThe Metal Column – December 2010
It's December. The nights have not so much been drawing in as they have been choking us of all life, the weather's miserable and worse yet – it's nearl... Read more »| 29 Nov 2010 -
Music
Live Music Highlights – December 2010
When afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti died in 1997 he left a legacy of musical innovation and political dissent that is quite unique. His son Femi Kuti has since p... Read more »| 29 Nov 2010 -
Film
December Film Events
For those who embrace a “bah, humbug” sensibility in December, the GFT in Glasgow is offering two anti-Christmas films: Gremlins on 3 Decemb... Read more »| 29 Nov 2010 -
Music
Joseph Dean Osgood – Rock n' Roll Man
There will always be an audience for the old and familiar – wouldn’t the world be dreadful if everyone chased the witch-house-aqua-crunk-chillwav... Read more »| 29 Nov 2010 -
Music
Atari Teenage Riot @ The Arches, 24 Nov
Alec Empire could hardly have timed the return of Atari Teenage Riot more astutely. Inactive since 2000, the Berliners’ hyper-politicised take on disto... Read more »| 26 Nov 2010 -
Music
Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
“Have you lost your mind?" asks Yeezy on Hell Of A Life. "Tell me when you think we’ve crossed the line...” And so Twitter's most dangerous... Read more »| 26 Nov 2010 -
Art
Another World @ Dean Gallery
More of a way of thinking than a style, Surrealism encompasses sculpture, painting, literature, photography and film. Spanning several countries and evolvin... Read more »| 26 Nov 2010