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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MusicConsole – Herself
Somewhere on India’s Goa beach there is a man playing the first tune on this record, nodding his dreadlocked head, and feeling at one with the world; f... Read more »| 26 Nov 2010 -
MusicVarious Artists – I'm Here Soundtrack
Spike Jonze’s latest short film I’m Here has brought with it this collection of old and new indie-cool material to soundtrack his urban robotic l... Read more »| 26 Nov 2010 -
Film
Of Gods and Men
A group of monks find the limits of their faith being put to the test in Of Gods and Men, Xavier Beauvois' perceptive and subtly powerful new film. T... Read more »| 26 Nov 2010 -
TheatreTheatre Venue of the Month: Tramway
Tramway has often been a prophet without honour in its home city. Tucked away on Glasgow's Southside, it is internationally renowned as both a gallery and th... Read more »| 26 Nov 2010 -
MusicKylie Minoise – Sid Vicious Occult School of Motoring
Where would the world be without acts like Kylie Minoise endeavouring to take the most innocuous of sounds and turn them into sonic weaponry? Undoubtedly in ... Read more »| 25 Nov 2010 -
Music
The Savings and Loan – Today I Need Light
The Savings and Loan aren’t looking for an It’s-a-Wonderful-Life, community-spirit bail-out on their debut – just a stiff drink. As a guest... Read more »| 25 Nov 2010
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Music
Frank Turner – Rock & Roll EP
Evolving from bitter, acoustic punk – from tracks Thatcher Fucked the Kids and Once We Were Anarchists to the mellowness of the former Million Dead fro... Read more »| 25 Nov 2010 -
Film
Playtime & Les Vacances de M. Hulot
Jacques Tati's character Monsieur Hulot was France's answer to Charlot (their fond nickname for Charlie Chaplin) in the 1950s. If you've seen The Illusionist... Read more »| 25 Nov 2010 -
Music
Sophie's Pigeons – Names and Pictures
A curse on you, Urban Dictionary. we could have happily lived our lives believing the only definition of ‘trunkle’ was ‘tree monster foe of... Read more »| 25 Nov 2010 -
Film
Monsters
Gareth Edwards' low-budget post-apocalyptic thriller, Monsters, hits UK cinemas after nine long months on the road at festivals from South By Southwest ... Read more »| 25 Nov 2010 -
Music
Johnny, not Jenny
Scottish-American folk troubador Johnathan Rice has teamed up with his girlfriend (Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis). They're called Jenny and Johnny (very cute) and this, in Johnny's words, is their story Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
Music
Bruce Springsteen – The Promise
As Sick Boy observed to Renton one myth-making afternoon in an Edinburgh park: “Well, at one time, you’ve got it, and then you lose it,” an... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
Music
Rose Kemp – Golden Shroud
It’s fair to say Rose Kemp is carving a distinctive niche for herself. The daughter of Steeleye Span members Rick Kemp and Maddy Prior, her vocal style... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
Music
Julia Stone – The Memory Machine
Successful brother-sister bands are rare – apart from The Knife and sibship supergroup The Magic Numbers, it seems the creepiness of singing about love... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
ArtSimon Starling @ The Modern Institute
Simon Starling's show at The Modern Institute is just the kind of essayist rubbish that I've come to expect from the 'vibrant' Glasgow art scene. I'm sure I'... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010