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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TheatreThe Cabaret Revival (Reprise)
It's Here, It's Queer, Get Used to It Read more »| 29 Sep 2011 -
MusicThe Moth & The Mirror – Honestly, This World
Comprising previous and occasional members of bands including Frightened Rabbit, Smoke Jaguar and The Reindeer Section, The Moth & The Mirror form ... Read more »| 28 Sep 2011 -
MusicSiskiyou – Keep Away The Dead
This second LP from indie-folk band Siskiyou finds a balance between soft reflective folk songs and angst-ridden stomp-alongs. Recorded mostly in the tiny to... Read more »| 28 Sep 2011 -
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Dispatches from the Golden Isle
As Ibiza's party season wraps up for another year Kat Young checks out two of the major players, We Love and Cocoon. Read more »| 28 Sep 2011 -
ClubsClubbing Highlights – October 2011
Festivals: over! Summer: over! You might as well get a good selection of soup stocked in your cupboards, dig out the winter wardrobe and invest in a SAD lamp... Read more »| 28 Sep 2011 -
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Blitz
First time DJs Corrina Hornsby-Walsh and Paul Challinor launch their queer and camp 80s-inspired club night Blitz at Glasgow’s Flying Duck. They were i... Read more »| 28 Sep 2011
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Perc @ La Cheetah, 19 Nov
Pounding pounding techno music comes to La Cheetah this week in the form of bass throbbing tub-thumper Perc. With releases on Kompakt, Adam Beyer’s Dru... Read more »| 28 Sep 2011 -
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Tribute (Launch Night) Presents DJ Stingray
Detroit’s enduring influence on electronic music is hard to play down, not least it would seem, in Glasgow. It’s fitting then that the city&... Read more »| 28 Sep 2011 -
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Death Disco Presents Peaches (DJ Set)
Outlandish costumes and lascivious lyrics have been the cornerstone of the stratospheric rise of Lady Gaga in recent years. The idiosyncrasies of Ms Germanot... Read more »| 28 Sep 2011 -
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Gasoline Dance Machine Presents Mustang
Belgian duo Mustang can be best surmised as traversing right across the entire electro spectrum. Combining elements of funk, synthy pop and disco invariably ... Read more »| 28 Sep 2011 -
MusicNew Blood: Otherpeople
Exploring the darker side of pop on their own terms, Glasgow's Otherpeople aren't scared of a good chorus Read more »| 27 Sep 2011 -
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Gary Numan @ O2 ABC, 20 September
This stop on the Dead Son Rising tour, with its imposing architecture and mesmeric machinery, displays an artist forging new identities and re-invigorating h... Read more »| 27 Sep 2011 -
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Glasgow Mega Student Burrito
Having firmly established himself as a player on the burrito scene with his blog, Take A Worm For a Walk Week frontman Joe Quimby offers a word of nutritional advice to Glasgow's incoming Fresher population Read more »| 27 Sep 2011 -
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New Work Scotland: Group Effort
Firmly established as a development programme for emerging artists, New Work Scotland now wants its participants to talk to each other. The Skinny chats to Rhianna Turnbull and Gordon Schmidt about how the new cooperative focus went down Read more »| 27 Sep 2011 -
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Jonnie Common – Deskjob
Deskjob is not, Jonnie Common has been keen to stress, a remix album. There’s no chopping and screwing here: instead, consider his role akin to Phil Sp... Read more »| 27 Sep 2011