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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MusicEfterklang - Magic Chairs
Last year’s Performing Parades captured Efterklang’s enchanting collaboration with the Danish National Chamber Orchestra and effectively encapsul... Read more »| 02 Feb 2010 -
Clubs
DJ Chart: Bigfoot's Teaparty
Faux Pas, Redux and Marma Man – aka the fellows behind one of last year's most successful nights – offer up their favourite tracks. Read more »| 02 Feb 2010 -
MusicA Muso's Top 10: Queens of the Stone Age
Last issue we got to know Them Crooked Vultures and learned all about their extensive touring plans for the year - very good. But what the hell happened to J... Read more »| 02 Feb 2010 -
Film
The Stranger (Agantuk)
From 1991, Satyajit Ray directed this, his final film, from inside an oxygen tent. It doesn’t show. Based on one of his own short stories, it may not b... Read more »| 02 Feb 2010 -
Books"I Don't Feel Like a Natural..."
Dan Rhodes might not feel gifted, but now that his new novel is here, it's his readers who'll be the judge... Read more »| 02 Feb 2010 -
Film
GFF 2010: The Young Guns
Glasgow Youth Film Festival crams 25 film premieres, events and workshops into just one week, all aimed at young audiences (and of course the young at heart). We pick our favourites from this year’s programme. Read more »| 02 Feb 2010
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Film
Crazy Horse, Paris with Dita Von Teese
Featuring Dita Von Teese's routines and the cabaret set-pieces from the famous French night-club the Crazy Horse, this DVD presents burlesque as a mixture of... Read more »| 02 Feb 2010 -
Music
The Fauns - The Fauns
This debut proves to be a blissed-out re-visit of the true, defining sound of the 90's. Read more »| 02 Feb 2010 -
MusicHomegame @ Various Venues, Anstruther, 12-14 Mar
This spring marks the Fence Collective's 7th annual Homegame, taking place over three days in March (Fri 12th - Sun 14th) across various small halls in the C... Read more »| 01 Feb 2010 -
Music
So Far, So Good
After a decade in the wilderness, cult post-hardcore outfit Far return this month with an odd choice of comeback single. As they put the finishing touches to one of the most anticipated new albums of 2010, The Skinny catches up with front man Jonah Matranga to hear the inside word. Read more »| 01 Feb 2010 -
MusicKassidy - The Rubbergum EP
There’s not enough music in Scotland that makes you want to slap your thigh and chew tobacco. Kassidy have managed to produce such sounds - dus... Read more »| 01 Feb 2010 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen - February, 2010
Chris Buckle invites The Vivian Girls back to his deluxe Glasgow mansion for a listen to February’s singles. “We could never be music reviewers!” they gasp. “We’re way too hard to please…” Read more »| 01 Feb 2010 -
Music
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?
Perhaps the BJM's most motley selection of songs to date, Who Killed Sgt. Pepper? finds Anton Alfred Newcombe embracing both stylistic eclecticism an... Read more »| 01 Feb 2010 -
Clubs
Justus Köhncke @ Cottoncake, 15 Jan
With January a period of clubbing abstinence for many thanks to the familiar combination of post-festive season blues and over-stretched finances, it’s a brave club promoter who books a guest during this reliably fallow period. Read more »| 01 Feb 2010 -
Theatre
Alan Bissett @ Citizens Theatre, 9-13 Feb
A self-confessed ‘sensitive extrovert’, literary chameleon Alan Bissett is taking to the stage for a double feature of his play, The Ching Room, and spoken word ‘one woman show’, The Moira Monologues. Read more »| 01 Feb 2010