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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FilmGlasgow Youth Film Festival: Boy
Nostalgia is pretty low hanging fruit; after all, evoking the past’s warm glow can be as simple as humming the Dogtanian theme-tune or bemoaning the in... Read more »| 12 Feb 2011 -
MusicSelf-Evident – Endings
Listening to Endings is like taking a trip back in time of about ten years, back to when bands like the Dismemberment Plan and At the Drive-In were crafting ... Read more »| 11 Feb 2011 -
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Inside Job
Money? It’s a gas. The carnage of Wall Street gets the focus treatment in Charles Ferguson’s timely documentary about the recent global financial... Read more »| 11 Feb 2011 -
Music
The Bellrays – Black Lightning
If doubters can get past the fact that The Bellrays are clearly not high-concept, it would be nice to think they could appreciate the sheer eagerness to rock... Read more »| 10 Feb 2011 -
Music
Aidan Moffat's City of Love
Every couple of years or so around this time, my city likes to remind everyone that somewhere in Glasgow Cathedral lies a box with a few bones that used to b... Read more »| 10 Feb 2011 -
FilmSuperheroes In Glasgow
'Comic Book Guy' Thom Atkinson gives the lowdown on what's coming up in GFF11's Mark Millar curated 'Superheroes in Glasgow' strand Read more »| 09 Feb 2011
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Art
Harun Farocki: In Comparison
Ahead of his show at CCA, The Skinny talks film, politics and bricks with German filmmaker Harun Farocki Read more »| 09 Feb 2011 -
Music
The Get Up Kids – There Are Rules
“You’ve got the dirty bombs and I’ve got nothing to wash them with.” When an album opens with a line like that, it’s either goi... Read more »| 09 Feb 2011 -
FilmGlasgow Frightfest: Schlock and Gore
Horror aficionado Becky Bartlett wades through the entrails of this year’s Glasgow FrightFest Read more »| 09 Feb 2011 -
Music
Sam Kills Two – Pretty Ugly
The chat surrounding Sam Kills Two’s 2009 debut tended to focus on the involvement of Dodgy frontman Nigel Clark, noting the absence of chirpy Britpop ... Read more »| 09 Feb 2011 -
Music
Beat Milk Jugs – Ten Years of Hangovers
Beat Milk Jugs are an electro-Goth four-piece (not another one!) originally hailing from Daugavpils, Latvia but currently based in the UK. Perhaps mercifully... Read more »| 09 Feb 2011 -
Music
New Blood: Eternal Fags
Ear buds at the ready, Eternal Fags are about to tear your quiet space apart Read more »| 08 Feb 2011 -
Music
New Blood: Gummy Stumps
The first of two bands from Winning Sperm Party's roster this month, Gummy Stumps are as challenging an act as one could hope to hear from a city renowned for its hard-working musical underground. Vocalist Colin Stewart explains why they can’t sit still Read more »| 08 Feb 2011 -
Music
Zoey Van Goey @ Classic Grand, 5 Feb
Preceding the shy stature of Malcolm Middleton with a mass choir – The Sirens of Titan, who enter from a balcony perch wearing sunglasses and chanting ... Read more »| 07 Feb 2011 -
Film
Matt Lloyd: Short Film Impresario
Crammed into three frenetic days at the start of the GFF, the fantastic Glasgow Short Film Festival (GSFF) again provides a chance to see the finest emerging film-makers from across the world. We caught up with GSFF director Matt Lloyd to hear all about it Read more »| 07 Feb 2011