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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MusicGrimes @ Glasgow ABC, 13 Mar
"If you're looking for your dream girl / I'll never be your dream girl," Claire Boucher sings, beaming, on mid-set track Butterfly. There's no mistaking her ... Read more »| 15 Mar 2016 -
ArtThis Week in Scottish Art: GSFF, BAS8 & more
This week, art films screen in the back of a van, there's an exhibition of tiny works from Visual Artists' Unit, and the restaging of Graham Fagen's Venice Biennale presentation. Read more »| 15 Mar 2016 -
ComedyRomesh Ranganathan @ The Garage, Glasgow, 13 Mar
Romesh Ranganathan brings his Irrational tour to the Garage stage and wins over a tough crowd. Romesh Ranganathan faces resistance early at this Garag... Read more »| 15 Mar 2016 -
ComedyAdam Buxton to present a BUG David Bowie special
The music video output of David Bowie will be celebrated at a special edition of Adam Buxton's BUG in April. Read more »| 15 Mar 2016 -
Music
Under the Influence: Clint Mansell
From Coventry to California, Clint Mansell has steadily emerged from the ashes of Pop Will Eat Itself to become one of the most widely acclaimed film composers of his generation. Here, he offers an insight into 10 of the most pivotal records in his stack Read more »| 14 Mar 2016 -
Film
Five Great Short Filmmakers & Five to See at GSFF
Glasgow Short Film Festival director, Matt Lloyd, suggests five great filmmakers making short films and we choose our picks from this year's Glasgow Short Film Festival programme. Read more »| 14 Mar 2016
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Music
Wolf Alice @ Manchester Academy, 9 Mar
Sometimes the good guys win. Not as often as good sense and good taste demands, but in this cruel and crackpot world you pick your battles. As Wolf Alice ret... Read more »| 14 Mar 2016 -
FilmScott Graham on Iona
Scott Graham follows up 2012's Shell with Iona, another wind-swept rural tale of familial malcontent, this time set on the elemental Hebridean island of the ... Read more »| 14 Mar 2016 -
Music
New Albums This Week: Adam Stafford, K-X-P + more
The best new albums hitting the shelves this week, featuring the return of former Y'All is Fantasy Island frontman Adam Stafford, Finnish visionaries K-X-P and Derbyshire composer Richard J Birkin Read more »| 11 Mar 2016 -
Music
Errors / Bossy Love @ La Belle Angele, 5 Mar
It’s a brave band that allows Bossy Love to open for them. Pure heat from the very first bar, the Glaswegian trio transform a sparse, early doors crowd... Read more »| 11 Mar 2016 -
Music
Under the Influence: The Cosmic Dead
Hailing from Glasgow's premier psych crusaders, The Cosmic Dead's Julian Dicken meditates on a few inspirational tracks that made him want to play Read more »| 11 Mar 2016 -
Art
Ignite Dundee 2016: Creative Sparks
This May, Dundee's cultural highlights are brought together in the form of Ignite Dundee, who have also arranged a programme of specific public art and performance events. Read more »| 11 Mar 2016 -
Comedy
Lloyd Langford on Fun and Sustenance
Ahead of his visit to Glasgow International Comedy Festival, Lloyd Langford chats about how the blues can be joyous, wrestling with Greg Davies and what makes a true friendship. Read more »| 11 Mar 2016 -
Music
Stream Iggy Pop and Josh Homme's 'Post Pop Depression'
The punk progenitor and desert rock godfather release their collaborative LP, which Pop claims may be his last Self-financed and recorded in secrecy with Qu... Read more »| 10 Mar 2016 -
Music
These Important Years: Bob Mould on Patch the Sky
Having triumphantly ridden the comeback trail in recent years, Bob Mould's personal life suddenly cracked open in 2014. He tells us how a traumatic year informed new album Patch the Sky, and why those pesky Hüsker Dü reunion rumours won't go away. Read more »| 10 Mar 2016