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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MusicTakumi 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 -
ArtJean-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 -
ClubsDeath 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 -
TheatreHe'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 -
MusicStanley 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
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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 -
Clubs
Slabs of the Tabernacle 031: Lone (Live) @ La Cheetah Club, 5 Feb
Slabs of the Tabernacle at La Cheetah in Glasgow is looking to bring in some huge talent this year. The first-Saturday-of-the-month dance night is hosting No... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
Theatre
Macabre Animation
1927 aren't exactly an uncomplicated skip through sunny summer afternoons, but their gothic aesthetic is informed by both a genteel humour and Russian surrea... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
Music
The Luyas – Too Beautiful to Work
Too Beautiful to Work’s dizzying title track sets out an impressive stall. “No one could follow” incants Jessie Stein over repetitive organ... Read more »| 31 Jan 2011 -
Theatre
Venue of the Month: Bedlam
Less chaotic than its name suggests, here is one independent venue set to survive the crunch Read more »| 31 Jan 2011 -
Clubs
Headlock ft. Sir David "Ram Jam" Rodigan & Toddla T
West London based label Headlock will be hosting their first party of 2011 with a rather huge line-up featuring legendary British selector David &ldq... Read more »| 31 Jan 2011 -
Music
Religious To Damn – Glass Prayer
That Zohra Atash, vocalist and the brains to Religious to Damn’s spiritualistic brawn, once spent time filling in for Jarboe will come as no surprise t... Read more »| 31 Jan 2011 -
Music
The Metal Column – February 2011
In the face of the recent panic that 'rock/guitar music is finally dead', we feel obliged to reassure all those lamenting some kind of rock-pocalypse that yo... Read more »| 31 Jan 2011