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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MusicDeftones hunt for March 2013's Track of the Month
With a diverse selection of twelve tracks from this month’s single, EP and album releases playing on their backstage stereo, Deftones' Chino Moreno and Frank Delgado go fishing for the one they can 'groove out to' Read more »| 04 Mar 2013 -
ClubsDJ Chart: Cyril Hahn (PMR)
An eclectic ten track selection from Cyril Hahn ahead of his appearance in Glasgow Read more »| 04 Mar 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 4 March
In today's Bulletin: Stream the new David Bowie album in full; The Jesus & Mary Chain announce plans for Record Store Day; new music by Glass Candy, Oneman and Small Black; David Dale Gallery residency opportunity, plus the latest Summer Festival news Read more »| 04 Mar 2013 -
Film
Role Play: Scott Graham on Shell
We speak to Scott Graham about his debut feature Shell, one of the highlights of Glasgow Film Festival 2013 Read more »| 04 Mar 2013 -
MusicChurch of Noise – March 2013
Enter the Church of Noise, where only the most loud and abrasive get to hold the sermons. From doom-jazz to hardcore...whatever. Earplugs optional, but you probably won't last long without them Read more »| 04 Mar 2013 -
MusicSteve Mason – Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time
In both breadth and depth, Steve Mason’s new opus is a lot to assay. A far-reaching concept album with an ardent heart, it’s driven thematically ... Read more »| 04 Mar 2013
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Music
The Experimental Tropic Blues Band – Liquid Love
As their name suggests, Belgium’s Experimental Tropic Blues Band specialise in the kind of absurdly overdriven fuzz-blues associated with acts like the... Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
Film
Zoey Van Goey's Kim Moore on her score for Hell Unltd
Helen Bigger's influential anti-war film Hell Unltd is being screened at GFT with a specially commissioned score by Kim Moore this month to mark International Women's Day. We spoke to Moore about the project Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
Film
GFF 2013: Arbitrage
With his moneyed exterior and supreme self-assurance, hedge-fund capitalist Robert Miller (Richard Gere) epitomises the maxim that image is everything; that ... Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
FilmFilm Event Highlights - March 2013
This month's film highlights include an all-night horror marathon, a screening of philosophical films, the Bootleg Film Festival, and Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy back-to-back Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 1 March
T Break 2013 opens for submissions; new music from Tricky and The Bronx; Brainfeeder crew and TNGHT define the 'beat' movement; Glasgow premiere of London riots documentary; Festival Watch: Sonar Tokyo, End of the Road and more Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
Film
GFF 2013: Kuma
Kuma opens with a traditional Turkish wedding, but as events will subsequently underscore, appearances are deceiving. Though ostensibly marrying the young an... Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
Film
GFF 2013: Random Acts
When invited to produce Random Acts, Jacqui Davies stipulated that she was only interested in broadcasting things that were works of art in themselves, and n... Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
Film
GFF 2013: The Artist and the Model
Set in the French-Spanish border during World War II, The Artist and the Model is an understated, slow-burning tale about inspiration and beauty. Shot in cri... Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
Books
The Dandy - The Last Issue
This last ever print version of The Dandy is a pretty representative compendium of some 75 stories. The Dandy's humour was never particularly sophistica... Read more »| 01 Mar 2013