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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ComedyChris Addison: "Stand-up is where it all comes from"
In the 1996 movie Multiplicity, Michael Keaton clones himself in an attempt to manage his busy schedule. It’s tempting to think that the technology des... Read more »| 18 Nov 2011 -
MusicArab Strap @ Nice N Sleazy, 17 November
• Possibly the best secret The Skinny has ever kept (even if we did just stick them on the cover anyway), Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton reunited fo... Read more »| 18 Nov 2011 -
Film
Kill List
In a neat, suburban house a couple quarrel over the depressed husband's reluctance to return to his work. Later, his colleague arrives with a new girlfriend ... Read more »| 17 Nov 2011 -
FilmA Separation
It’s a miracle that Iranian filmmakers continue to produce complex and deeply humanistic work despite their increasingly draconian film industry, and A... Read more »| 17 Nov 2011 -
Art
Johanna Basford: Drawing From Experience
First term sees new students illuminating studios with bright ideas – but how switched on are they about industry that awaits them? Illustrator Johanna Basford helps us read between the lines of her 50 Things I Wish I’d Known In Art School Read more »| 17 Nov 2011 -
MusicConquering Animal Sound / Sleepingdog / FareWell Poetry @ CCA, 15 November
An arts centre is surely a fitting stage for the roster of Gizeh Records, as the first date of the label's Silent Bells Tour soon proves. Opening a... Read more »| 17 Nov 2011
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Film
Greg Davies: Firing Cheeseballs At A Dog Live DVD & BluRay
Opening with a photo montage from babyhood to present day, the scene is set for Greg Davies’ 2010 show Firing Cheeseballs at a Dog. The&... Read more »| 16 Nov 2011 -
Music
Arab Strap discuss the motivation to reform for one-off show
"There's absolutely no commerce involved, it's purely from love," says Aidan Moffat Read more »| 16 Nov 2011 -
MusicLos Campesinos! @ Òran Mór, 10 November
With low slung guitars and double denim uniform, Strange News From Another Star resemble a rockabilly-flecked Future of the Left (with whom frontman Jimmy Wa... Read more »| 16 Nov 2011 -
Art
Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art Announce 2012 Programme
Glasgow's biennale, the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, have just announced the programme for their fifth outing, which will run from 20 Apr ... Read more »| 15 Nov 2011 -
Comedy
Axis Of Awesome: "Any act is improved by an animatronic dragon"
The most awesome band in comedy prepare to rock their way to Glasgow Read more »| 14 Nov 2011 -
Film
Reginald D Hunter: Live DVD
Reginald D Hunter is a big man, and if you’ve only ever seen him squeezed into small snippets on TV panel shows, then you’ve not really seen him.... Read more »| 14 Nov 2011 -
Film
Trailer Trash #1: Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 1
The bathetic teaser for Breaking Dawn, the latest film in the sexy Mormon vampire franchise, has our trailer reviewer breaking down Read more »| 14 Nov 2011 -
Music
Smashing Pumpkins / Ringo Deathstarr @ O2 Academy, 13 November
All photography by Alex Woodward Read more »| 14 Nov 2011 -
Film
Andy Parsons: Gruntled DVD
Oh, that voice. There are people in the world who watch Mock The Week with the subtitles on, just so they don’t have to hear that voice, which always ... Read more »| 14 Nov 2011