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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ArtFull Stop @ Such and Such
For 18 months Such and Such gallery has been an important element of the vibrant art scene in and around Leith Walk. One of the first spaces of its kind to o... Read more »| 15 Dec 2011 -
FilmTrailer Trash #3 – Sherlock Holmes 2: Game Of Shadows
It's impossible for Guy Richie to make a decent film, ergo Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows must be bollocks. Its explodey trailer certainly suggests so Read more »| 13 Dec 2011 -
MusicKobra Audio Labs – Two Blue Towers
K.A.L.'s new release is a musical homage to his hometown of Wishaw. Part audio-collage, part art object, it is released via Bandcamp as a limited-edition cas... Read more »| 13 Dec 2011 -
Music
Plastikman @ Barrowland, 3 December
There is, inevitably, plenty of hype preceding Plastikman’s appearance at the Barrowlands tonight: one of only three UK dates, it represents a rare opp... Read more »| 12 Dec 2011 -
Film
Dreams of a Life
On 25 January, 2006, the remains of Joyce Vincent, a 38-year-old former secretary, were found slumped on the couch of her London flat, the telly still blarin... Read more »| 12 Dec 2011 -
Music
The Lemonheads @ Òran Mór, 5 December
There’s always been something appealingly incongruous about Evan Dando’s approach: simultaneously an angst-ridden college rock icon, and the lova... Read more »| 09 Dec 2011
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Music
Group Inerane & Flower/Corsano Duo @ Kinning Park Complex, 2 December
The Kinning Park Complex, a recently-established community/arts centre in a former late-Victorian school, tonight boasts one of the more eagerly-anticipated ... Read more »| 09 Dec 2011 -
Music
Lanterns On The Lake @ Electric Circus, 30 November
Newcastle duo Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell offer up some sparse yet evocative odes to fickle relationships as tonight’s opening act. From the plainti... Read more »| 09 Dec 2011 -
Music
Thurston Moore @ The Arches, 28 November
A flustered arrival onto The Arches stage after being disoriented by the Glasgow streets brings Thurston Moore to a discerning, and disconcertingly polite, s... Read more »| 09 Dec 2011 -
Music
Muscles of Joy @ Òran Mór, 27 November
Having separated from Divorce, it seems Palms have full custody of singer Sinead, and anyone only familiar with the caterwauling dervish schtick she deployed... Read more »| 09 Dec 2011 -
Music
Robert Redford / Django Django / She'S Hit @ Nice N Sleazy, 26 November
Tonight’s line-up is a riddle alright, with Hollywood royalty atop a bill of curiously monikered support. First up, the erratically capitalised SHe&rsq... Read more »| 09 Dec 2011 -
Comedy
Comedians' Letters: Dear Santa...
Christmas is coming, and we've asked some stars of the Scottish comedy scene to tell us what they're hoping to find in their stockings Read more »| 07 Dec 2011 -
Music
Primal Scream: “It makes you cool with the children, when you're on X Factor"
Andrew Innes talks to The Skinny about Hogmanay in Edinburgh, tension in the studio, and gives a blow by blow account of their forthcoming LP (warning, the last one's a lie) Read more »| 07 Dec 2011 -
Music
Albums of the Year (#1): St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
With Strange Mercy, St Vincent distils melody and madness. We spend an evening in the company of Annie Clark Read more »| 06 Dec 2011 -
MusicAlbums of the Year (#2): Bon Iver – Bon Iver
Bon Iver's second album is a wonderful shift in mood and direction – but don't bank on Justin Vernon sticking with either Read more »| 06 Dec 2011