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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MusicThe Automatic - Tear the Signs Down
What's that coming over the hill, is it a monster, is it a monster? No, it's only the return of the rather pointless Welsh band behind one of the most annoyi... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
FilmGFF 2010: Opening with a Bang (and a crash and a wallop)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s latest film Micmacs opens this year’s Glasgow Film Festival with a dose of hi-jinks. Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
Music
Sambassadeur - European
For all its sweeping strings and pop nous, Sambassadeur’s third album is an understated affair that initial listens might write off as underwhe... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
Film
GFF 2010: Vincere
Marco Bellocchio previously explored the impact of national politics on a personal level with Buongiorno, notte, a quietly observed depiction of the kidnappi... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
TheatreUncluttered and Companionable
Clutter Keeps Company has a brilliant lighting design. All nuance and subtle movement, it brings the simple set to life as a pop-up book, clear and coherent.... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
Music
Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
Initially resembling an emo-Foals, Two Door Cinema Club discover unexpected range across their full length debut. Pierce the production sheen and the... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010
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TheatreKill Your Timid Notion
For years, Barry Esson and Bryony McIntyre, creative directors of the Arika organisation, have been asked whether their festivals are “experimental mus... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
Film
GFF 2010: Pachamama
A father and son tread the old trade route through the Bolivian Andes, bartering salt from the Uyuni flats near their home for regional produce - the corn, q... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
Music
Pavement - Quarantine the Past
Emerging amidst the Seattle-centric music scene of the early nineties, Pavement’s breakthrough album, Slanted and Enchanted, eschewed the guts and grit... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
Film
GFF 2010: Bringing Up Baby
Filmmakers, critics and cineastes alike can’t give anything but love to this baby, but that wasn’t always the case. Released in 1938, it bombed a... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
Music
Poostosh - Herbarium
Herbarium could be a forgotten gem of eastern European cinema; a three-hour epic about one old man's day-to-day struggles in a cold, unforgiving, Com... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
Film
GFF 2010: Things That Go Bump in the Night
Parisian electro duo Zombie Zombie talk about their love for the great horror filmmaker John Carpenter. Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
Music
Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks
Following 2007’s The Midnight Organ Fight can hardly be described as a pressure-free endeavour. Frightened Rabbit’s often stark, heart-on-sleeve,... Read more »| 17 Feb 2010 -
Music
The Knife - Tomorrow, In A Year
This radical opera crackles with genius and creativity, even if it does upset the traditionalists. Read more »| 17 Feb 2010 -
TheatreWhat We Wish Was True
Watching What We Know, I am fascinated by the central scene, where the grieving Lucy is confronted by a baleful youth who demands food and dispenses gnomic w... Read more »| 17 Feb 2010