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 Seer Returns: Michael Gira on Swans' ever-evolving live show
Michael Gira explains why Swans will always be a work in progress Read more »| 05 Nov 2012 -
MusicBeach House / Holy Other @ The Arches, 29 October
Holy Other leaves many of the audience confused, but for those attuned to his understated, undulating sound and beat-scapes, he is nothing short of a re... Read more »| 05 Nov 2012 -
MusicThe Lovely Eggs – Wildlife
On their third album, couple Holly Ross and David Blackwell have again gone to every effort to remind us that The Lovely Eggs are northern. Really.... Read more »| 05 Nov 2012 -
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Crystal Castles – III
Crystal Castles were one of the central influences on the producers and bands who would go on to be grouped under the genre tag of 'witch house.' In a remark... Read more »| 05 Nov 2012 -
Theatre
Scottish Opera: The Magic Flute
Scottish Opera's Nicky Spence promises that their new production of The Magic Flute is a great place to start for opera novices Read more »| 05 Nov 2012 -
TheatreCloser @ The Old Hairdresser's
Closer, a play by Patrick Marber concerning honesty, co-dependency, trust, love as object-obsession and other heady themes, holds some considerable acumen, h... Read more »| 05 Nov 2012
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Theatre
The Great Disappointment Of Santa Muerta @ Oran Mor
The doubts, neuroses and motivations of the jobbing actor are explored in this lyrical, pithy play, written and performed by the brilliant Amanda Monfrooe.&n... Read more »| 05 Nov 2012 -
Theatre
Arches Live: Gelatin (Solo) / Update
Gelatin (Solo) performed by Thomas McCulloch, is an intimate study in ritual and the limitations of the human form. McCulloch, clad only in boxer shorts walk... Read more »| 05 Nov 2012 -
Music
Buck 65: “They all thought that I had completely lost my mind...”
After enduring a year of hell, rapper Buck 65 is back on tour, and preparing a new album of cold electronic beats and surreal, Dadaist lyrics. Read more »| 05 Nov 2012 -
Theatre
Whatever Happened to Harry @ Arches Live
Seated in a blue Benz with the door hanging open, it is hard to anticipate what is going to happen. To the sound of a reggae beat, a woman with a shawl about... Read more »| 05 Nov 2012 -
Theatre
The Artist Man and the Mother Woman
New Play and New Artistic Director team up for Traverse Special Read more »| 02 Nov 2012 -
MusicDeftones – Koi No Yokan
Storming out of the gate with Swerve City – a brutally sexy sledgehammer of a song, and hands-down their best opener since White Pony's Feiticeira &nda... Read more »| 02 Nov 2012 -
Music
Brian Eno – LUX
After two patchy outings on Warp, LUX finds Eno returning to purely ambient pastures with a suite based on a recent gallery installation. A cursory listen ... Read more »| 02 Nov 2012 -
Music
Mogwai – A Wrenched Virile Lore
A Wrenched Virile Lore is not strictly a remix album to Mogwai’s seventh studio record Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will. In fact, Justin Broadric... Read more »| 02 Nov 2012 -
Music
Alive in the Superunknown: Soundgarden chart their unlikely return and the making of 'King Animal'
As Soundgarden prepare to deliver their first studio album in 16 years, the Seattle titans explain how they found a road back Read more »| 02 Nov 2012