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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MusicPleasure Palaces: Jamie Grier
Steev Livingstone talks to The Glue Factory's resident live engineer Jamie Grier in the fourth part of Errors' series on musicians' spaces Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
MusicGZA/Hector Bizerk @ The Arches, 13 February
The Arches is already near capacity, with a crowd in boisterous mood when Hector Bizerk take to the stage. It's the kind of environment where many support ac... Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
MusicJustice @ O2 Academy, 12 February
A brightly lit cross, two French guys whose haircuts bob like violent metronomes, and faux-Marshall amps that double as strobes piercing an otherwise Spartan... Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
Film
GFF 2012: High Places interview
Glasgow Music and Film Festival kicks off in grand style with a performance from electro-pop duo High Places, a band whose work embodies GMFF's celebration of both music and image Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
MusicPleasure Palaces: Mother Ganga
In the third installment of Errors' 'Pleasure Palaces' series on creative spaces, Mother Ganga's Lewis Cook tells how he gets the joss sticks out round his girlfriends flat Read more »| 15 Feb 2012 -
Film
GFF 2012: Reclaiming Mumblecore
Is there any sub-genre more misunderstood than mumblecore? With director Lynn Shelton delivering, with Your Sister's Sister, another film gem that fits the mumblecore M.O., we've decided to reclaim this much maligned moniker Read more »| 15 Feb 2012
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Music
In Pictures: Frightened Rabbit / We Are Augustines / Fatherson @ HMV Picture House, 10 February
In Pictures: Frightened Rabbit / We Are Augustines / Fatherson @ HMV Picture House, 10 February This sold out leg of HMV's 'Next Big Thing' showcase brought... Read more »| 15 Feb 2012 -
Music
Pleasure Palaces: Remember Remember
Part two of Errors' 'Pleasure Palaces' series finds Remember Remember's Graeme Ronald feeling like the janny at the old primary school his band uses for rehearsals Read more »| 15 Feb 2012 -
Film
GFF 2012: Terri
Like its eponymous protagonist, Terri sits awkwardly outside mainstream expectations, but is all the more appealing for it. The film opens with fifteen year ... Read more »| 15 Feb 2012 -
Music
Pleasure Palaces: The Phantom Band
In the first part of Errors' 'Pleasure Palaces' series, The Phantom Band's Andy Wake tells Steev Livingstone about the space they make music in Read more »| 15 Feb 2012 -
Music
Mastodon/The Dillinger Escape Plan @ Barrowlands, 7 February
It's safe to say that The Dillinger Escape Plan have played a significant part in selling out tonight's show; a touch of anxiety lingers before the inevitabl... Read more »| 14 Feb 2012 -
Music
The Twilight Sad @ Grand Ole Opry, 9 February
The Grand Ole Opry makes an unlikely venue in which to see The Twilight Sad. With confederacy flags and neon lighting adorning each wall, a neutral observer ... Read more »| 13 Feb 2012 -
Music
Roedelius – Plays Piano
If every piece of music has its place, then Hans-Joachim Roedelius’ Plays Piano fits neatly into the background. That may pass as a compliment struc... Read more »| 13 Feb 2012 -
Music
In Pictures: The Twilight Sad @ Grand Ole Opry, 9 February
The Twilight Sad @ Grand Ole Opry, 9 February Kilsyth's Twilight Sad unleash new album No One Can Ever Know on Glasgow's Grand Ole Opry at the start of thei... Read more »| 10 Feb 2012 -
Film
Her Private Hell
When a naïve Italian beauty accepts modelling work in 60s London she's drawn into a sleazy world of booze, jazz parties, free loving, and... dirty pictu... Read more »| 10 Feb 2012