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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MusicTeebs – Ardour
Los Angeles has never been more protean in dance circles than it is right now and here is Teebs to make the most of the scene's 'Seattle moment'. A collabora... Read more »| 18 Oct 2010 -
ArtAlex Hetherington @ Embassy
There’s nothing new under the sun. This seems to be the underlying principle behind Alex Hetherington’s work. He describes his art not without fi... Read more »| 18 Oct 2010 -
MusicKRS-One @ The Liquid Room, 7 Oct
“Waste no time,” KRS-One pleads of his DJ in-between classics. Aware that this boom-bap battle mass falls at the mercy of The Liquid Room's infam... Read more »| 15 Oct 2010 -
Music
The Twilight Sad / Errors @ The Liquid Room, 12 Oct
The final date of a joint tour between Scotland’s foremost post so-and-so combos was always going to be catnip for a certain clientele. In fact, one ra... Read more »| 15 Oct 2010 -
Clubs
Oliver $ @ Kollektiv, 5 Nov
New night Kollektiv continues with an appearance from house producer Oliver $ Read more »| 15 Oct 2010 -
ClubsMagnetic Man @ Mixed Bizness, 30 Oct
While there was something inevitable about the formation of Magnetic Man given that dubstep’s popularity, relatively speaking, has already appr... Read more »| 15 Oct 2010
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Theatre
Bette/Cavett
From the 70s tube to the contemporary stage Read more »| 15 Oct 2010 -
Film
Mary and Max
A very unusual friendship forms the heart of Mary and Max, Adam Elliot's enchanting stopmotion animated debut feature. Mary (Toni Collette) is a lone... Read more »| 15 Oct 2010 -
MusicJosephine Foster & The Victor Herrero Band – Anda Jaleo
Colorado born Josephine Foster appears to be on an endless journey of musical discovery, an opera-school drop-out – oh the shame – she’s si... Read more »| 14 Oct 2010 -
Music
Agnes Obel – Philharmonics
It’s not hard to muster some gushing verbal diarrhoea of how enchanting, bewitching, and other-worldly Philharmonics sounds but the truth is that with ... Read more »| 14 Oct 2010 -
Music
Panico – Kick
It seems almost a cruel joke that Chemikal release this just as we approach the depths of winter, because Kick, from Chilean quintet Panico is the ideal soun... Read more »| 14 Oct 2010 -
Music
Mice Parade – What It Means To Be Left-Handed
Ever since their inception in 1998, Adam Pierce’s Mice Parade have emblemised bold ambition, baulking any calls to conform with a melting pot of influe... Read more »| 14 Oct 2010 -
Music
No Age / Male Bonding @ Stereo, 9 Oct
For Glasgow fans of Sub Pop Records, tonight was a brutally hard choice. With Mudhoney also playing down the road at The Arches, a crucial decision needed to... Read more »| 13 Oct 2010 -
Clubs
Grandmaster Flash @ Mixed Bizness, 20 Oct
Mixed Bizness throw down one of the strongest school night bookings in recent memory Read more »| 13 Oct 2010 -
Music
Tut Vu Vu: Stardust From Tomorrow
The Phantom Band's Andy Wake eulogises the late, great horror R&B show that was Uncle John & Whitelock to explain the origins of Tut Vu Vu Read more »| 12 Oct 2010