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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ArtKevin Reid & Rachel MacLean @ Market Gallery
Kevin Reid, founder of GANGHUT, is going solo for the first time in years. Yes, the man who began that unique art collective, based around notions of collabo... Read more »| 05 Feb 2010 -
Music
Balbec - Rise And Fall Of A Decade
New self-released album from Parisian outfit. Read more »| 05 Feb 2010 -
MusicNedry - Condors
They may have crafted their sound amidst the frenetic urban sprawl of London, yet native trio Nedry’s debut album is entirely defined by its sp... Read more »| 04 Feb 2010 -
MusicBaby Dee - Book Of Songs
The press release for Book Of Songs declares Baby Dee “the epitome of the phrase ‘back story’”. Surprisingly, this apparent hyperbole... Read more »| 04 Feb 2010 -
Film
GFF 2010 In Focus: Kevin Macdonald
Ahead of his appearance at the Festival we talk to the Glasgow-born film director about his Scottish links and shooting his upcoming film, The Eagle of the Ninth. Read more »| 04 Feb 2010 -
Film
A Little Joie-de-Vivre
In Micmacs a group of Parisian eccentrics plot revenge on two arms manufacturers in a style that harks back to the silent age of cinema – welcome to Jean-Pierre Jeunet country. Read more »| 04 Feb 2010
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Theatre
Flatties
Flatrate theatre group have been entertaining Glasgow audiences with one aim: “to work harder, faster and more intelligently than any other company out there.” Read more »| 04 Feb 2010 -
Music
Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago
With six full albums as well as a litter of other smaller efforts now safely in the bag, Shearwater's ability to write consistently excellent, affecting mode... Read more »| 03 Feb 2010 -
Music
Shearwater: Cosmic Castaways
Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg could simply have said "the new record's about islands, sounds a bit like Talk Talk." But oh no, he went cosmic on our ass. Read more »| 03 Feb 2010 -
Music
Down with the Prophets: The John Knox Sex Club interviewed
Having played enviable support slots and crossover gigs in clubs and galleries throughout their 18 months of existence, The John Knox Sex Club's helter-skelter art rock has proven a love/hate affair Read more »| 03 Feb 2010 -
Music
Errors: Incubate to Accumulate
It’s not something, but it is like, a reality TV drugs show. Errors’ last man through the door, James Hamilton, reveals the ‘pitch’ behind new album Come Down With Me. Read more »| 03 Feb 2010 -
Music
Lonelady - Nerve Up
Another week, another 80s-indebted British female solo singer? Keep reading – this one’s different. She doesn’t look like she was assembled... Read more »| 03 Feb 2010 -
Art
Martin Creed @ The Common Guild
Martin Creed is to have his first ever solo exhibition in Scotland. Remarkable when you consider he spent his childhood in Glasgow before moving to London to... Read more »| 03 Feb 2010 -
Music
Two Man Army: Massive Attack return with Heligoland
Stepping back into the limelight with their much anticipated fifth full-length album this month, Robert Del Naja and Grant Marshall discuss the careful resurrection of Massive Attack Read more »| 02 Feb 2010 -
Music
Nikaido Kazumi and Shugo Tokumaru with The National Jazz Trio of Scotland @ Classic Grand, 28 Jan
Presided over by the Hitchcockian Bill Wells, Celtic Connections tonight invites its first Japanese contributors to collaborate with The National Jazz Trio o... Read more »| 02 Feb 2010