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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BooksGlasgow Fairytale
See, it aw started when this guy wrote a book aboot Glesga. Except it wisnae aw aboot the Armadillo and Lulu, and that. Naw, whit it wis, he put aw t... Read more »| 25 Feb 2011 -
MusicThe Monochrome Set @ Mono, 26 Mar
Currently in their third stint together, after previously packing it in once in 1985, and then again in 1998, The Monochrome Set are a deciduous yet resilien... Read more »| 25 Feb 2011 -
Music
Queens Of The Stone Age – Queens Of The Stone Age: Special Edition
In early 1998 Dave Grohl went on record naming then-unknown Californian outfit Queens Of The Stone Age as his favourite band on the planet. If that provoked ... Read more »| 25 Feb 2011 -
MusicThe View – Bread & Circuses
While Mogwai and Biffy Clyro have made the success of Scottish acts less of a novelty, there’s still an odd mix of pride and all-round smugness at seei... Read more »| 25 Feb 2011 -
Books
The Blackhouse
Detective Fin McLeod returns to his childhood home, the Isle of Lewis, for the first time in 17 years to investigate a brutal murder. Rediscovering the islan... Read more »| 25 Feb 2011 -
Theatre
Revealing the New (venue of the month)
A Venue without Walls Read more »| 25 Feb 2011
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Film
GFF 2011: Contemporary Days
Long before Ikea broke down and flat-packed modernism for the masses, Robin and Lucienne Day were hard at work designing the foundations of what now seems co... Read more »| 25 Feb 2011 -
FilmGFF 2011: Submarino
Using a novice cast and crew from the Danish film scene, Submarino harks back to the earlier film-making of director Thomas Vinterberg, a key figure of the D... Read more »| 25 Feb 2011 -
Music
Elbow – Build A Rocket Boys!
There is a poignancy to every track of Build A Rocket Boys, and a sparseness that stands in contrast to 2008's The Seldom Seen Kid. As with all of Elbow's wo... Read more »| 24 Feb 2011 -
Music
Parts & Labor – Constant Future
Labelling Brooklyn’s Parts & Labor an “experimental noise-rock band” is one more reason to take user-edited encyclopaedias with a pinch... Read more »| 24 Feb 2011 -
Theatre
Lord of the Flies @ Theatre Royal, 2-5 Mar
Choreographic legend gets local and tribal Read more »| 24 Feb 2011 -
Books
The Shard Box by Liz Niven
In a new collection of poems about her experiences in China, Liz Niven seems the perfect traveller. She’s adventurous in confronting the cultur... Read more »| 24 Feb 2011 -
Film
GFF 2011: Holes Where The Heart Is
Winner of the inaugural Margaret Tait Award 2010, Torsten Lauschmann invites Jac Mantle to his studio for an insight into his forthcoming screening at Glasgow Film Festival 2011. Words: Jac Mantle Read more »| 24 Feb 2011 -
Music
Wild Palms – Until Spring
Although we are assured that London's Wild Palms subsisted on “a diet of Beefheart, The Fall, Can, and Wire” while working on the songs that comp... Read more »| 24 Feb 2011 -
Music
Vessels @ Captain's Rest, 21 Feb
It’s rare to see the Captain’s Rest dancefloor filled out like it is tonight and, given the warm reception, it’s apparent that at least a f... Read more »| 24 Feb 2011