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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FilmShame
Shame is a film about addiction, but what separates it from other movies on this subject is that the drug for Brandon (Fassbender) is sex. He gets his fix an... Read more »| 09 Jan 2012 -
Music
Live Music Highlights – January 2012
Combining electro, pop and house may be about as revolutionary as beans on toast but Edinburgh's Discopolis have arrived at a uniquely energising and euphori... Read more »| 06 Jan 2012 -
FilmGoon
Ice hockey flicks usually export as unsuccessfully as baseball analogies, armoured rugby and the thought of having to pay for your healthcare. But Goon, insp... Read more »| 06 Jan 2012 -
Art
Pidgin Perfect with Tawny Kerr
Pidgin Perfect is a creative studio based in Glasgow whose aim is to help build better communities in Scotland Read more »| 06 Jan 2012 -
MusicThe Metal Column – January 2012
Aye, aye – so a new year means new beginnings, the kicking of old habits and the setting of goals, but let's just put the unrealistic stuff aside for t... Read more »| 06 Jan 2012 -
FilmSex Addiction and the City: Steve McQueen on Shame
With 2008's Hunger, Steve McQueen proved himself to be one of the most distinctive voices in British filmmaking. The Skinny spoke to the director ahead of the release of his controversial new film Shame Read more »| 06 Jan 2012
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Theatre
Dance @ The Arches
Is this the future of Scottish dance? Read more »| 06 Jan 2012 -
Music
Porcelain Raft – Strange Weekend
Having impressed with four eclectic EPs (most notably last year's Gone Blind) and stirred significant buzz at 2011’s SXSW, Porcelain Raft release debut... Read more »| 05 Jan 2012 -
Clubs
Heard it Through the Bassline Presents Pangaea @ The Caves, 17 January
When we heard that Heard it Through the Bassline were soon to stop running their quality midweek nights showcasing some of the hottest DJs around, our i... Read more »| 05 Jan 2012 -
Music
Rodrigo y Gabriela and C.U.B.A. – Area 52
The latest twist in Mexican acoustic duo Rodrigo y Gabriela's unpredictable career – which has taken in folk, Latin and rock styles, and most recently ... Read more »| 05 Jan 2012 -
Music
Francois & The Atlas Mountains – E Volo Love
Saintes-born Francois Marry has been on Scottish radars for some time already, as a continental cousin of Fence (who released previous album Plaine Inondable... Read more »| 05 Jan 2012 -
Music
Kathleen Edwards – Voyageur
The fruits of a few years' absence and an ongoing collaboration with Bon Iver figurehead Justin Vernon, Voyageur presents a more developed, confident, and ar... Read more »| 05 Jan 2012 -
Music
Hot 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 -
Music
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 -
Music
Discopolis: 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