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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ClubsNorthwest Clubbing Highlights – September 2013
Fresher? Addled second-year? Panicking third-year? Either way, order your books second-hand and instead blow your loan on Plastician, Bondax, Seth Troxler and Auntie Flo Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
BooksThe Guts by Roddy Doyle
Since we first encountered Jimmy Rabbitte, the godfather of The Commitments has acquired a wife, four kids, a dog called Messi and bowel cancer. Characterist... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
Music
O2 Love Music Column – September 2013
September brings with it a sense of riddim, at least at the ABC; but before we get to the more rasta-inclined of what's on offer over the next four weeks, we... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
Theatre
If these spasms could speak @ Pleasance
Robert Softley's play If these spasms could speak tells the story of day-to-day life for people with disabilities through their eyes. It explores the di... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
ComedyCrystal Baws: September 2013 Horoscopes
ARIES All those hours under a microscope carving your CV in tiny hieroglyphs onto chicken beaks comes to nothing. Not a single employer even bothers to reply... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
TheatreDunsinane on Tour
The National Theatre of Scotland and the Royal Shakespeare Company are bringing back David Greig’s incredibly compelling, thought provoking, Scottish p... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013
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Clubs
Clubbing Highlights – September 2013
This month’s more compact highlights column packs in the likes of UK techno icon Regis, bass music producer Addison Groove and booty-goading ghetto house showman DJ Funk... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
Books
Flesh Wounds by Chris Brookmyre
With Flesh Wounds, Brookmyre returns to the more emotionally nuanced Glasgow crime world of Where the Bodies are Buried and When the Devil Drives (signalled,... Read more »| 30 Aug 2013 -
Film
About Time
Richard Curtis rounds off his trust fund trilogy with weddings (not four, thankfully) and love (not actually, mercifully) in this return to the vanilla, uppe... Read more »| 30 Aug 2013 -
Film
Plein Soleil
Alain Delon was a movie star with uncommon good looks and charisma, but only a few directors really knew how to fully exploit his particular gifts. Ren&eacut... Read more »| 30 Aug 2013 -
Film
Scotland Film Event Highlights – September 2013
The Grosvenor Cinema in Glasgow is screening four films showcasing some of mainstream cult star Bill Murray's finest performances. The series starts with 80s... Read more »| 30 Aug 2013 -
Music
OPDOT – Opus One
The final track of OPDOT's debut album is called Obnubilate – the definition is 'darken or cover as if with a cloud; obscure.' Being wilfully obscure o... Read more »| 30 Aug 2013 -
Film
Northwest Film Event Highlights – September 2013
This month sees a celebration of sex and celluloid, with some kinky double-bills from Certificate X Cult Film and a 24-hour marathon of that sleaziest of sub-genres, film noir Read more »| 30 Aug 2013 -
Music
Midday Veil – The Current
In terms of tone and atmosphere, the second LP from this Seattle psych-rock sextet brings to mind similarly trippy work by stoner rock outfits like Om, altho... Read more »| 29 Aug 2013 -
Art2|1|4|1: Safety in Numbers
September sees the official launch of 2|1|4|1, the latest graduate collective formed in a bid to counter the famously poor career prospects of artists. We speak to the founding members about their plans Read more »| 29 Aug 2013