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 Proposition: Cull the Middlemen
When did getting a tune from a musician to their audience become such a labyrinthine process? Read more »| 04 Mar 2011 -
FilmStarter for eleven: Aidan Gillen
Aidan Gillen was attending the Glasgow Film Festival to introduce Treacle Jr., a new independent film that reunites him with The Low Down director Jamie Thraves. We caught up with the former star of The Wire to quiz him on that great show, giving him a shot at winning that elusive haggis supper Read more »| 04 Mar 2011 -
ArtWhite Knight @ Collective Gallery
The gallery space has always implicitly challenged the meaning of true communal property. Alex Gross and Anna Mields’ film, Farbenlehre, at The Collect... Read more »| 04 Mar 2011 -
Clubs
Jacques Greene: "The MySpace era is on its way out"
Jacques Greene's uplifting fusion of classic house and contemporary R&B is murdering dancefloors, headphones, Rupert Murdoch's assets and a few MySpace hipsters too. We had a word with LuckyMe's latest prodigy Read more »| 03 Mar 2011 -
Art
Satellite @ East Kilbride Arts Centre
Satellite is an artist collective that includes Margaret McCormick, Kevin Malcolm, Audrey O'Brien, Neville Rae and Sam Stead. They came together in 2006 over... Read more »| 03 Mar 2011 -
Music
Bad For Lazarus – 25 EP
On paper Bad For Lazarus should be one of the most exciting new bands in the country. Congenial front man Rich Fownes has served time in Nine Inch Nails and ... Read more »| 03 Mar 2011
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Music
RM Hubbert: Punk As Folk
Glaswegian guitarist RM Hubbert talks early influences, new horizons and playing gigs in swimming pools Read more »| 03 Mar 2011 -
Music
J Mascis: "I don't have that harmony mind"
Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis talks about his first solo studio album and the notion of a harmony mind Read more »| 03 Mar 2011 -
Music
Elbow: Rocket Men
Before Elbow debut the sequel to their 2008 Mercury winner in Glasgow this month, Richard Jupp explains their mandate: to build a rocket. Nae pressure, boys... Read more »| 03 Mar 2011 -
Clubs
Death Disco presents Hercules and Love Affair @ The Arches, 19 Mar
Bursting on to the scene in a shimmering cloud of disco techni-colour, Hercules & Love Affair were one of the most distinctive acts of the last decade, p... Read more »| 03 Mar 2011 -
Clubs
Heard It Through The Bassline Presents: Jacques Greene
Having already hosted one of the best nights of 2011 with Pariah and Koreless last month, Heard it Through the Bassline bring us another fantastic booking in... Read more »| 03 Mar 2011 -
Art
Jeff Koons @ Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Kitsch, vulgar, delightfully banal and knowingly so; look up a definition of post modernism and Jeff Koons ticks every box. Always bright, interesting and sa... Read more »| 03 Mar 2011 -
Books
Doug Johnstone: Whisky Galore, And A Wee Bit More
Doug Johnstone's third novel, Smokeheads, is a thriller set on the island of Islay, whisky's spiritual home Read more »| 03 Mar 2011 -
Film
Archipelago
Archipelago can’t help but stand out as a depiction of wealthy toffs. In a repeat of the central motif of director Joanna Hogg’s debut film Unrel... Read more »| 03 Mar 2011 -
Music
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine
All the lucky people who managed to get hold of a Home Game ticket this year: here's something to get you in the mood for three days in Anstruther. Having sp... Read more »| 02 Mar 2011