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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ArtOlivia Plender @ CCA
Showing at CCA, the third and final installment of Olivia Plender’s show Rise Early, Be Industrious, utilises drawing, installation and historical... Read more »| 17 Oct 2012 -
MusicJames Iha – Look to the Sky
James Iha's first solo album (1998's winsome Let It Come Down) served as a pleasant-enough, if underwhelming, soft rock missive from one of the alternative... Read more »| 17 Oct 2012 -
MusicDirty Projectors @ The Arches, 15 October
On most billings, Dirty Projectors’ fellow Brooklynites Callers would comfortably be the most inventive and striking outfit. Sara Lucas’ richly ... Read more »| 17 Oct 2012 -
Music
In Pictures: WHY? at SWG3, 12 October
WHY? at SWG3, Glasgow, 12 October Indie-rap raconteur Yoni Wolf and co make their return to Glasgow after a three year absence, giving fans an early taste o... Read more »| 16 Oct 2012 -
Theatre
21 Years in The Arches
Jackie Wylie, artistic director of The Arches, looks back over the illustrious history of the multi-discipline arts space, and tells us what's in store for the birthday celebrations Read more »| 16 Oct 2012 -
Music...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead / Maybeshewill @ The Liquid Room, 13 October
Walking in to Leicester post-rockers Maybeshewill is a thunderous experience. Commanding attention with their skull-shaking bass sound, muscular riffage and ... Read more »| 16 Oct 2012
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Music
Liars / The Haxan Cloak @ SWG3, 11 October
The Haxan Cloak is crouched almost out of sight with a hood obscuring his face, building dense, textured bass loops into funereal, transcendental techno; lik... Read more »| 16 Oct 2012 -
Music
On the Road: The Hazey Janes take to Europe with Wilco
Dundee band The Hazey Janes report back on their dream tour in support of Wilco in Europe Read more »| 15 Oct 2012 -
FilmBeasts of the Southern Wild
Beasts of the Southern Wild is a film that has been drawing acclaim ever since it made its debut at Sundance, and it's easy to see why. This tale of a chil... Read more »| 15 Oct 2012 -
Art
Dieter Roth @ Fruitmarket Gallery
“Dieter was heavy on collecting everything and including everything,” begins Björn Roth in a video accompaniment to his father’s colle... Read more »| 15 Oct 2012 -
Music
Lapalux – Some Other Time EP
One of Brainfeeder's UK signings, Essex-born Lapalux has released on Pictures Music, and produced a self-released EP in 2011. He has also completed high-prof... Read more »| 15 Oct 2012 -
Music
Gallows / Feed the Rhino @ King Tut's, 9 October
Feed the Rhino evidently have some fans gathered here at King Tut's tonight; as the stage lights dim, the band are greeted with a fair amount of fervency w... Read more »| 12 Oct 2012 -
Music
Balam Acab / Konx-Om-Pax @ CCA, 8 October
In a sprawling electronic set which defies easy categorization, Konx-Om-Pax draws heavily on debut Regional Surrealism, but also delves into his back ca... Read more »| 12 Oct 2012 -
Comedy
Creepy Ghost Stories
Shelly, 29, from Aberdeen will chill your spine with this paranormal tale...“When I woke up at my boyfriend’s house covered in ghostly ectoplasm there could only be one explanation – my dead Dad was trying to send me a message from inside the grave...” Read more »| 11 Oct 2012 -
Film
Frankenweenie
With Frankenweenie, Tim Burton returns to an old tale (his 1984 short), to animation, and to form. A delicious mixture of 3D and black and white, this zombie... Read more »| 11 Oct 2012