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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TheatreA Play, a Pie and a Pint: Trouble and Shame @ Oran Mor
It’s a menacing scene: a balaclava-clad man stands over another lying prostrate on top of a trunk. The darkness of this setup is quickly und... Read more »| 16 Sep 2013 -
Music
Giant Drag @ The Deaf Institute, 13 September
A lot of the people here tonight have come alone. Shuffling around and glancing at phones before the set begins, you get the impression that this farewell gi... Read more »| 16 Sep 2013 -
TheatreA Play, a Pie and a Pint: Divided @ Oran Mor
Ian Pattison’s taut drama Divided makes for a fascinating dissection of one period in the life of famous Glasgow psychiatrist R D Laing. ... Read more »| 16 Sep 2013 -
TheatreCrime and Punishment @ Citizens Theatre
The act of adapting Dostoyevsky’s literary masterpiece for the stage is a bold one, but this production of Crime and Punishment while timeles... Read more »| 16 Sep 2013 -
ArtRichard Mosse @ Irish Pavilion, Venice Biennale
Upon entering the Irish pavilion on the bank of the Grand Canal, you are met with three monumental images of luscious jungle-scape, the foliage unnervingly r... Read more »| 16 Sep 2013 -
Music
Neon Neon @ Òran Mór, Glasgow, 11 September
History teachers looking for an innovative way of explaining Cold War politics to bored students could've done worse than dragging them to the Òran M&... Read more »| 16 Sep 2013
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Music
Fuck Buttons / The Haxan Cloak, SWG3, 10 Sep
SWG3 is packed to the gunnels. Having played here with Liars, The Haxan Cloak is tuned in to the system and the space. His live set, performed on analogue ge... Read more »| 16 Sep 2013 -
MusicJimmy Eat World @ O2 Academy, Glasgow, 9 September
There’s a pattern to Jimmy Eat World’s setlist tonight: a handful from their most recent three albums to open, followed by a much longer set of s... Read more »| 16 Sep 2013 -
Film
Screening the Obscene: Irvine Welsh on Filth
Ahead of its big screen adaptation starring and produced by James McAvoy, we speak to Irvine Welsh about his third novel Filth, a delightful tale of a dirty copper and his foul-mouthed tapeworm Read more »| 16 Sep 2013 -
Film
Kelly + Victor
Adapted from Niall Griffiths' novel of the same name, Evans' debut feature follows the perilously intense relationship between two Liverpudlian twenty-someth... Read more »| 16 Sep 2013 -
Film
The Artist and the Model
Best known for fluffy Oscar-winner Belle Epoque (and more recently, Chico and Rita’s vibrant jazz animation), The Artist and the Model presents a more ... Read more »| 13 Sep 2013 -
Music
Quasi – Mole City
In an era where bands struggle to get two records out before falling foul of industry fashions, cash flows or personality defects, the twenty years or so Sam... Read more »| 12 Sep 2013 -
Art
Vadim Zakharov @ Russian Pavilion, Venice Biennale
Curated by Udo Kittelmann, Vadim Zakharov’s ambitious work focuses on the Greek myth of the impregnation of Danaë. When her father’s death i... Read more »| 12 Sep 2013 -
Books
A Night for Neruda @ Edinburgh City Chambers, 13 Sep
This Friday evening, the Chile: 40 Years On, Scotland Network will honour the life and work of internationally renowned Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. The one-ni... Read more »| 12 Sep 2013 -
Film
In a World...
Actress Lake Bell makes her feature writing and directing debut with this funny ensemble piece set within and around the world of voice-over artists. Carol S... Read more »| 12 Sep 2013