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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MusicArab Strap discuss the motivation to reform for one-off show
"There's absolutely no commerce involved, it's purely from love," says Aidan Moffat Read more »| 16 Nov 2011 -
MusicLos Campesinos! @ Òran Mór, 10 November
With low slung guitars and double denim uniform, Strange News From Another Star resemble a rockabilly-flecked Future of the Left (with whom frontman Jimmy Wa... Read more »| 16 Nov 2011 -
ArtGlasgow International Festival of Visual Art Announce 2012 Programme
Glasgow's biennale, the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, have just announced the programme for their fifth outing, which will run from 20 Apr ... Read more »| 15 Nov 2011 -
Comedy
Axis Of Awesome: "Any act is improved by an animatronic dragon"
The most awesome band in comedy prepare to rock their way to Glasgow Read more »| 14 Nov 2011 -
Film
Reginald D Hunter: Live DVD
Reginald D Hunter is a big man, and if you’ve only ever seen him squeezed into small snippets on TV panel shows, then you’ve not really seen him.... Read more »| 14 Nov 2011 -
Film
Trailer Trash #1: Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 1
The bathetic teaser for Breaking Dawn, the latest film in the sexy Mormon vampire franchise, has our trailer reviewer breaking down Read more »| 14 Nov 2011
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Music
Smashing Pumpkins / Ringo Deathstarr @ O2 Academy, 13 November
All photography by Alex Woodward Read more »| 14 Nov 2011 -
Film
Andy Parsons: Gruntled DVD
Oh, that voice. There are people in the world who watch Mock The Week with the subtitles on, just so they don’t have to hear that voice, which always ... Read more »| 14 Nov 2011 -
Film
DANCE:FILM 11: My Paths Through Dance
How to dance like a Spaniard Read more »| 14 Nov 2011 -
Film
DANCE:FILM 11: A Good Man
A blast of triumphant anger Read more »| 14 Nov 2011 -
MusicArctic Monkeys @ SECC, 8 November
All photography by Euan Robertson Read more »| 14 Nov 2011 -
MusicGhostface Killah @ The Liquid Room, 9 November
Eight months after his Cuban Linx co-host claimed The Liquid Room, Ghostface Killah shows up to mirror Raekwon’s inebriated triumph – tonight&rsq... Read more »| 11 Nov 2011 -
Music
Acid Mothers Temple / Vars of Litchi @ Nice 'N' Sleazy, 9 November
The brilliance of virtuoso post-rock duos like Hella and Lightning Bolt has waned of late, stymied by its own frantic complexity, but Glasgow’s Vars of... Read more »| 11 Nov 2011 -
Music
Tori Amos @ Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 6 November
One could be forgiven for expecting a rigidly structured 'play the album in full' style show to support Night Of Hunters, Tori Amos' recent boundary crossing... Read more »| 11 Nov 2011 -
Music
Dananananaykroyd @ O2 ABC, 29 October
It’s in no way a slight to suggest United Fruit are pretty peripheral to tonight’s euphoric highs. They hurl out riff after riff with dependable ... Read more »| 11 Nov 2011