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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Music
Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes
Following the success of her charismatic 2008 debut Youth Novels, Swedish Chanteuse Lykke Li returns with this much anticipated next move. Admirably tackling... Read more »| 03 Feb 2011 -
Film
Alan Jones: Maestro of the Macabre
With Film4’s FrightFest lurking round the corner like a restless Michael Myers ready to terrorise the closing weekend of the Glasgow Film Festival, we've hunted down the festival's founder and horror aficionado Alan Jones to pick his brains Read more »| 03 Feb 2011 -
Comedy
In Profile: Steve Williams
The Welshman explains why heart trouble will always lure him back to Scotland Read more »| 03 Feb 2011 -
Music
Beans: The End Is The Beginning
Anti-Pop Consortium rapper Beans is back with a new solo LP on Anticon – and this time, he’s brought Four Tet, Interpol and his special jumper along for the ride Read more »| 02 Feb 2011 -
Music
The Twilight Singers – Dynamite Steps
Remaining true to The Twilight Singers’ founding ethos, Greg Dulli once again assembles a notable cast for the long-awaited return of his New Orleans t... Read more »| 02 Feb 2011 -
Music
Heeeere's...Jonny!
So Norman Blake bonded with Euros Childs when Teenage Fanclub toured with Gorky's Zygotic Mynci back in 1997. Sharing a sweet tooth and a passion for the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, one day they started calling themselves Jonny Read more »| 02 Feb 2011
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Music
Gay For Johnny Depp: The Shape Of Punk To Come?
Sid Jagger of Brooklyn bruisers Gay For Johnny Depp ponders tough gigs, name changes and the future of hardcore punk Read more »| 02 Feb 2011 -
Art
The Atrocity Exhibition: Dan Miller & Alec Mackenzie
The David Dale Gallery and Studios is housed in an old college building in deepest, darkest Bridgeton, Glasgow. Later this month the gallery brings together Glasgow-based artists Alec Mackenzie and Dan Miller in a two man show called POINT/LINE/SURFACE/SOLID. The Skinny quizzed them on what to expect Read more »| 02 Feb 2011 -
Music
Mogwai: Hardcore 4 Life
On the brink of unleashing their startling seventh album, Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite explains the merits of the Scottish mindset, owning your own label, and eavesdropping on the rogue element Read more »| 02 Feb 2011 -
Film
Millar Time: Superheroes Take On The Arthouse
Mark Millar, the comic book writer behind The Ultimates and Kick-Ass, talks to The Skinny about bringing superheroes to the festival crowd, his Weegie superhero movie and an onanistic Peter Parker Read more »| 02 Feb 2011 -
Music
Hero Worship: David Bowie
Mischief La Bas head honcho and five-star solo artist Ian Smith introduces a familiar face Read more »| 02 Feb 2011 -
Music
Twin Shadow @ Captain's Rest, 27 Jan
For a ‘bedroom artist’, George Lewis Jr is quite the consummate frontman, more confident than the relatively low-key romanticism of his debut alb... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
Clubs
Taz Buckfaster: Future Funk
Taz Buckfaster is undoubtedly one of Scotland's most promising dubstep artists. With a huge following, multiple residencies and a slew of brutal plates of vinyl on the likes of Rwina and Subway. Having recently released the highly anticipated Gold Tooth Grin on Glasgow label Numbers, we caught up with Scotland's finest dubstep export for a little chat Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
Music
The Proposition: The Middle Classes Cannot Do Protest Music
In the unlikely event you're reading this through a haze of cigar smoke and brandy fumes, you might as well stop now. That probably also goes for those of yo... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
Music
Ringo Deathstarr – Colour Trip
Texas based Ringo Deathstarr are the latest band of pilgrims to fixate their sound on the My Bloody Valentine sonic template, so it is with some trepidation ... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011