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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BooksOn the State of Egypt by Alaa Al Aswany
Even as the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak reached its climax, there were those who doubted the possibility of regime change in Egypt. One man... Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
MusicU.S. Christmas – The Valley Path
That U.S. Christmas’ made a sizeable contribution to last year’s tribute to space-rock maestros Hawkwind won’t come as any surprise to anyo... Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
MusicNight Noise Team – Slow Release
Night Noise Team launch Slow Release with real gusto, singer Sean Ormsby promising that they’ve “got something for you” on opener The Gift.... Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
Music
Joan of Arc – Life Like
In the fifteenth century the French stacked up some logs and set fire to the heroine that would come to be known as Joan as Arc. Hundreds of years later it's... Read more »| 24 May 2011 -
Music
Jacob Yates & the Pearly Gate Lock Pickers – Luck
This might be Jacob Yates & the Pearly Gate Lock Pickers’ debut full-length, but they’ve got hefty boots to fill, what with Uncle John & ... Read more »| 23 May 2011 -
Music
Battles – Gloss Drop
Losing a band member between albums is never easy, but Gloss Drop paints a picture of a group that has adjusted to the defection of Tyondai Braxton with rema... Read more »| 23 May 2011
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Music
Low @ Classic Grand, 17 May
As bodies steadily and audibly spill into Classic Grand, super-soft Belgian duo Sleepingdog manage, with no small amount of effort, to maintain their concent... Read more »| 20 May 2011 -
Music
The Black Heart Procession @ The Arches, 15 May
Ryan Bisland was a strange choice to open tonight's show. Undeniably a gifted acoustic performer, his upbeat, polished style seems at odds with the gloriousl... Read more »| 20 May 2011 -
Theatre
Dunsinane
Scotland as a nation proud or free, or a place that will forever be a part of England Read more »| 20 May 2011 -
Film
Heartbeats (Les amours imaginares)
The ridiculously talented 22 year-old actor-director Xavier Dolan follows up his 2009 festival hit I Killed My Mother with Heartbeats (Les Amours I... Read more »| 20 May 2011 -
MusicLow's Alan Sparhawk: “We’ve always been on the outside and I think we always will be”
With ninth album C’mon, Low have found their beating heart once again. Frontman Alan Sparhawk explains why he got tired of making things ugly, with a little help from Katy Perry's producer Read more »| 20 May 2011 -
Music
She's Hit – Pleasure
The debut LP from Glaswegian quintet She’s Hit is a narcotic brew of surf / garage and psychobilly that swaggers and spits from start to finish. The ov... Read more »| 19 May 2011 -
Theatre
Company
Earlier in the year Glasgow Music Theatre wowed us with a sterling performance of West Side Story, Bernstein’s best-loved streetwise reinterpretation o... Read more »| 18 May 2011 -
Music
Kronos in Glasgow: Matmos & Tanya Tagaq @ Old Fruitmarket, 14 May
Tonight’s programme is part of Kronos in Glasgow, a series of events organised by the vanguard quartet, and it bears the hallmarks of their tirelessly ... Read more »| 18 May 2011 -
Art
Take Me To Your Dealer @ Superclub
Set up in October last year, Superclub is an artist run studio complex off Leith Walk in Edinburgh. Established by ECA graduate Ross Christie, it is an affor... Read more »| 18 May 2011