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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MusicAll the Saints – Intro To Fractions
This second offering from Atlanta's All The Saints finds the band chin deep in psychedelic shoegaze. Like their debut, they continue to take cues from Englis... Read more »| 10 Jan 2012 -
MusicChris Devotion and the Expectations – Amalgamation & Capital
Encounter Amalgamation & Capital anonymously and you might presume it a greatest hits rather than a debut, its no-nonsense new-wave suggesting a lost gen... Read more »| 10 Jan 2012 -
ComedyThe Apocalypse: An Introduction
We always knew the world would end; the signs were obvious. Alvin and The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked taking $443,140,005 at the box office is pretty much how the... Read more »| 10 Jan 2012 -
ClubsSteve Mason vs Mad Professor
Dub disciple Steve Mason talks to the prolific Mad Professor about the foundations of digital dub and keeping track of his vast catalogue Read more »| 10 Jan 2012 -
Comedy
2012: The Impenetrable Click's User Guide
What does the future hold? Will the Mayan prophecy come true in 2012? What should I have for lunch? Glasgow sketch anarchists The Impenetrable Click answer your questions about the year ahead... Read more »| 10 Jan 2012 -
ArtStarter for 6: Method Furniture
Method Furniture received Starter for 6 funding three months ago and it's given them the chance to improve their business and receive some valuable development training. They tell us what the experience meant for them Read more »| 10 Jan 2012
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Music
The Dirty Dozen – January 2012
Mike Palmer and Sean Smith of We Were Promised Jetpacks exercise diplomacy on the January singles Read more »| 09 Jan 2012 -
Comedy
The Laughter Business: How To Launch A New Comedy Club
New comedy nights pop up every week across Scotland. Most of them fade away quickly. We followed two new venues in Edinburgh as they search for comedy success Read more »| 09 Jan 2012 -
Music
Kathleen Edwards: A Soft Place To Land
Canadian chanteuse Kathleen Edwards finds a home in Bon Iver's Wisconsin studio Read more »| 09 Jan 2012 -
Film
Five Slices of Cinematic Cuisine
You may have noticed that the January issue of The Skinny is a Food & Drink special. Film joins this perverse anti-detox celebration with a selection of five great food moments from cinema Read more »| 09 Jan 2012 -
Art
GRID: Mapping Glasgow Art
Set up by two Glasgow art school graduates, GRID has been mapping the galleries and institutions of city for over a year now. We chat to creators Sebastian Kalvik and Arron Sands about how it all came about Read more »| 09 Jan 2012 -
Film
War Horse
Steven Spielberg always seemed like the perfect director to bring War Horse to the screen, and his version of the stage play, adapted from Michael Morpurgo's... Read more »| 09 Jan 2012 -
Clubs
Globetrotting Night Slugs Blaze a Trail
Night Slugs co-founder Alex Sushon, aka Bok Bok, muses on the label's atlas-spanning origins and why US dance music sounds like the end of the world (in a good way) Read more »| 09 Jan 2012 -
Film
Shame
Shame is a film about addiction, but what separates it from other movies on this subject is that the drug for Brandon (Fassbender) is sex. He gets his fix an... Read more »| 09 Jan 2012 -
Music
Live Music Highlights – January 2012
Combining electro, pop and house may be about as revolutionary as beans on toast but Edinburgh's Discopolis have arrived at a uniquely energising and euphori... Read more »| 06 Jan 2012