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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MusicHot Ticket of the Month: Celtic Connections
Beginning on 19 Jan, Glasgow's annual folk, roots and world music festival isn't just about forcing school kids into concert halls and bigging-up fiddle musi... Read more »| 05 Jan 2012 -
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The Twilight Sad: “We never want to remake the same record just because it’s pleased some people”
Having lost a member but survived the fall-out, The Twilight Sad have come out fighting with a stripped back, propulsive third album. In celebration we caught up with them for a chat, a victory pint and a ploughman’s Read more »| 05 Jan 2012 -
MusicDiscopolis: Into the Rainbow Vein
Having started life as a Bloc Party tribute act a few short years ago, Edinburgh's Discopolis have since morphed into a band that the world can embrace. The Skinny joins them on tour in Malta Read more »| 05 Jan 2012 -
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Swilson – Demonology
Obscurely pitched as 'satanic psychedelic loner rock,' Swilson is certainly an enigmatic entity, with pictures of the band being virtually impossible to come... Read more »| 05 Jan 2012 -
ArtGlaswegian Graffiti
Glasgow-based Secret Wars finalists Rogue One and Conzo tell us about their art, and we explore a potted history of the scene, right from its early days in Brooklyn Read more »| 05 Jan 2012 -
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Alex Dordoy @ Modern Institute
Alex Dordoy graduated from the Painting and Printmaking department of the Glasgow School of Art back in 2007 and was soon picked up by the Modern Institute, ... Read more »| 05 Jan 2012
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Music
Smashing Pumpkins – Gish [Deluxe Edition] /Siamese Dream [Deluxe Edition]
Being a Smashing Pumpkins fan may be a trying experience, but it's rarely a boring one Read more »| 04 Jan 2012 -
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Cymbals Eat Guitars: Get to the Chorus
Staten Island's Cymbals Eat Guitars say this will be the year they kick it up a notch Read more »| 04 Jan 2012 -
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Divorce / Jailhouse Fuck – Split 10"
While some split records wobble under the incompatibility of their contributors, this 10" is a perfectly matched collision of our own female-fronted no-wave ... Read more »| 04 Jan 2012 -
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Wino & Conny Ochs – Heavy Kingdom
Former Obsessed front-man and Dave Grohl-collaborator Wino takes a break from his usual, riff-driven pummelling rock for some acoustic down-time. In this cas... Read more »| 04 Jan 2012 -
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Hyperpotamus – Delta
Hyperpotamus’s talents are unquestionable – search for video evidence of his looping skills, and marvel as he builds complex tracks from no more ... Read more »| 04 Jan 2012 -
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Errors – Have Some Faith in Magic
For their latest trick, Errors have produced their most impressive album thus far. Tusk is an impeccable introduction – bombastic and tight, its openin... Read more »| 04 Jan 2012 -
MusicLetka – Far Off Country
Letka have the fixings of something special: Sandra O’Neill sings beautifully; Peter Chilvers has proven his diverse talents through collaborations wit... Read more »| 04 Jan 2012 -
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An Island
French filmmaker Vincent Moon specialises in unorthodox music flicks, but An Island is more unorthodox than most. The titular location is Als, the small Dani... Read more »| 03 Jan 2012 -
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DJ Food – The Search Engine
DJ Food has always been a refreshingly nebulous project, with production duties falling to Coldcut, myriad collaborators, and the current helmsman, Strictly ... Read more »| 03 Jan 2012