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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ClubsBlitz
First time DJs Corrina Hornsby-Walsh and Paul Challinor launch their queer and camp 80s-inspired club night Blitz at Glasgow’s Flying Duck. They were i... Read more »| 28 Sep 2011 -
ClubsPerc @ La Cheetah, 19 Nov
Pounding pounding techno music comes to La Cheetah this week in the form of bass throbbing tub-thumper Perc. With releases on Kompakt, Adam Beyer’s Dru... Read more »| 28 Sep 2011 -
Clubs
Tribute (Launch Night) Presents DJ Stingray
Detroit’s enduring influence on electronic music is hard to play down, not least it would seem, in Glasgow. It’s fitting then that the city&... Read more »| 28 Sep 2011 -
Clubs
Death Disco Presents Peaches (DJ Set)
Outlandish costumes and lascivious lyrics have been the cornerstone of the stratospheric rise of Lady Gaga in recent years. The idiosyncrasies of Ms Germanot... Read more »| 28 Sep 2011 -
ClubsGasoline Dance Machine Presents Mustang
Belgian duo Mustang can be best surmised as traversing right across the entire electro spectrum. Combining elements of funk, synthy pop and disco invariably ... Read more »| 28 Sep 2011 -
MusicNew Blood: Otherpeople
Exploring the darker side of pop on their own terms, Glasgow's Otherpeople aren't scared of a good chorus Read more »| 27 Sep 2011
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Music
Gary Numan @ O2 ABC, 20 September
This stop on the Dead Son Rising tour, with its imposing architecture and mesmeric machinery, displays an artist forging new identities and re-invigorating h... Read more »| 27 Sep 2011 -
Music
Glasgow Mega Student Burrito
Having firmly established himself as a player on the burrito scene with his blog, Take A Worm For a Walk Week frontman Joe Quimby offers a word of nutritional advice to Glasgow's incoming Fresher population Read more »| 27 Sep 2011 -
Art
New Work Scotland: Group Effort
Firmly established as a development programme for emerging artists, New Work Scotland now wants its participants to talk to each other. The Skinny chats to Rhianna Turnbull and Gordon Schmidt about how the new cooperative focus went down Read more »| 27 Sep 2011 -
Music
Jonnie Common – Deskjob
Deskjob is not, Jonnie Common has been keen to stress, a remix album. There’s no chopping and screwing here: instead, consider his role akin to Phil Sp... Read more »| 27 Sep 2011 -
Theatre
Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off @ The Lyceum Theatre
Two queens, one kingdom sounds like a recipe for chaos Read more »| 27 Sep 2011 -
Music
Rustie: The Appliance of Science
Polygenre electronic music producer Rustie's debut LP sees the erstwhile Glaswegian fulfil the glistening promise of his early hip-hop, R&B, Detroit techno and dubstep experiments. It comes as no surprise to find him in a museum dedicated to advancement Read more »| 27 Sep 2011 -
Music
L.A. Times: The Californication of M83
On the day after his new album leaked, The Skinny meets M83's Anthony Gonzalez to talk space travel, stereotypes and the Hollywood Hills Read more »| 27 Sep 2011 -
Music
Ghostpoet @ Captain's Rest, 24 September
After a rousing set of homegrown hip-hop from Hector Bizerk, an emcee / drummer combo from Glasgow whose impressively tight lyrics and heavy, complex beats r... Read more »| 27 Sep 2011 -
Music
We Were Promised Jetpacks: Telling Stories
Once upon a time, four young men, who went by the name We Were Promised Jetpacks, picked up some guitars and drums and made an album that lots of people really liked. So much so in fact that they decided to do it again... Read more »| 27 Sep 2011