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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FilmGlasgay! 2011: The Films
We preview the film event at this year's annual festival of queer culture Read more »| 03 Oct 2011 -
Music
Anathema – Falling Deeper
Seemingly unsatisfied with their transformation from Paradise Lost-worshipping doomsters to prog-rockers du jour, Falling Deeper sees Anathema cherry-picking... Read more »| 03 Oct 2011 -
Theatre
Theatre Venue of the Month: Macrobert
Here's to forty more years Read more »| 03 Oct 2011 -
Art
Martin Boyce: Urban Legend
Martin Boyce is one of two Scotland-based artists nominated for this year's Turner Prize. Showing at the Baltic, Gateshead, from 21 October as part of the prize's annual show, we hear how the venue, the city and design have impacted on his work Read more »| 03 Oct 2011 -
MusicEmily Scott – I Write Letters I Never Send
Returning with her third long-player I Write Letters I Never Send, Edinburgh-based multi-instrumentalist Emily Scott builds on the success of 2009 sophomore ... Read more »| 03 Oct 2011 -
FilmChalet Girl
With a made-for-TV screenplay thinly veiled as a funky new take on mountaintop athletics, Chalet Girl follows ex-skateboarder Kim, a plain Jane with a big he... Read more »| 01 Oct 2011
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Comedy
Crystal Baws: October Horoscopes
ARIESIn October you finally fall on that spike all your friends bought you for your birthday back in April.TAURUSThis month you suffer a suspiciously realist... Read more »| 30 Sep 2011 -
MusicThe Dirty Dozen – October 2011
Rebecca Taylor and Charles Watson, AKA Slow Club, take time out from seducing Scottish crowds to reacquaint themselves with the good old CD single Read more »| 30 Sep 2011 -
Film
Midnight in Paris
Woody Allen’s latest feature is as much a love letter to Paris as Manhattan was to its namesake. The opening montage of la Ville-Lumière ac... Read more »| 30 Sep 2011 -
Music
Live Music Highlights – October 2011
Taking place over the weekend of 30 Sep/1 Oct, the Eastern Promise two-day festival returns to Glasgow's Platform this year. Arty electronic two-piece Tarwat... Read more »| 30 Sep 2011 -
Music
The Metal Column – October 2011
Metal's most impressive asset has always been the vast range of styles, talents and personalities that lie under that simple catch-all term. It caters for al... Read more »| 30 Sep 2011 -
Music
Hot Ticket of the Month: The Horrors @ The Liquid Room, 19 Oct
Right now, they're a band you can't afford to miss Read more »| 30 Sep 2011 -
Comedy
Craig Campbell: "Almost anyone can write a joke"
Following a tour with Frankie Boyle and his most successful Edinburgh Fringe to date, Canadian Craig Campbell is in the ascendancy Read more »| 30 Sep 2011 -
Music
Ut / Divorce / North American War @ Stereo, 28 September
It seems fitting that Ut’s first gig in 21 years sees support from two local acts influenced, in different ways, by the No Wave scene from which the Ne... Read more »| 30 Sep 2011 -
Music
Otherpeople – Memory Gag EP
There is one hell of a lot of pop music in the world but sadly not much of it has any nutritious value. Talking Heads are history, Weezer lost the plot and B... Read more »| 30 Sep 2011