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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ClubsSlab Happy
With two years under their belt and a new label launching this month, just what is the secret behind the success of Slabs of the Tabernacles? Read more »| 08 Sep 2010 -
ArtDavid Shrigley Book Launch @ Mono, 23 Sep
Glasgow is a tiny village in the west coast of Scotland where everyone knows everyone else and pretty much all the inhabitants are in a band with someone who... Read more »| 08 Sep 2010 -
Music
The Antikaroshi – Per/Son/Alien
Recorded in 4 days, Per/Son/Alien offers up an immediate slab of accomplished rock deeply rooted in post-rock and indebted to the legacy of Dischord and Touc... Read more »| 07 Sep 2010 -
MusicMogwai @ Stereo, 29 Aug
There are things in life that you really need to have been there to appreciate; tonight’s low-key Mogwai show is undoubtedly one of those occasions. Op... Read more »| 07 Sep 2010 -
MusicJónsi @ O2 Academy, 5 Sep
Tonight’s backdrop animations – woodland creatures; a wolf prowling the forest – make compelling viewing, affirming what television produce... Read more »| 07 Sep 2010 -
Music
Takka Takka – Migration
Danger! Afro-pop alert! If you refer to the dos and don’ts in the Modern Musicians Guide to Alternative Rock, then venturing into world music territory... Read more »| 07 Sep 2010
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Music
Minus the Bear @ Cabaret Voltaire, 31 Aug
The Bear is slow to emerge from hibernation this Tuesday night, but the high octane combo of My Time/Secret Country from the Seattle group's latest collectio... Read more »| 07 Sep 2010 -
Music
Doves @ Òran Mór, 2 Sep
Back in April, off-hand comments from Jimi Goodwin suggested Doves’ then impending Greatest Hits tour would be their last. Though apparently misquoted,... Read more »| 07 Sep 2010 -
Art
Studio Projects 22 & 23 @ Market Gallery
Market Gallery runs an extensive residency programme, showcasing young artists in the east end of Glasgow. For two months this autumn the gallery gives over ... Read more »| 06 Sep 2010 -
Music
Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
Deerhunter is no fan of the sudden, bloody kill. There’s no adrenalin-soaked chase across the hillsides with this bunch of self-proclaimed ‘ambie... Read more »| 06 Sep 2010 -
Books
Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Heaven and Hell is set in Iceland around the start of the 20th Century, and it concerns a boy named Bardur, and a boy who goes unnamed. Both are taken as pas... Read more »| 06 Sep 2010 -
Clubs
Paul Woolford @ Karnival, 25 Sep
As part of Cabaret Voltaire's 'alternative freshers week' is Karnival, who welcome Paul Woolford to the decks on 25 Sep. Through his work as DJ, producer, re... Read more »| 06 Sep 2010 -
Film
The Dead of Winter
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and a stand out work at Edinburgh International Film Festival, Winter’s Bone is one of the most inspiring examples of recent American cinema. Director Debra Granik discusses the film Read more »| 06 Sep 2010 -
Art
Robert Barry: Words and Music @ The Common Guild
There is nothing about conceptual art to be scared of. It was developed in the 1960s as an incremental step in the ongoing discussion around the nature of vi... Read more »| 06 Sep 2010 -
Film
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
Following the commercial and critical success of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Werner Herzog returns with the equally long-titled but far... Read more »| 04 Sep 2010