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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MusicMenagerie – They Shall Inherit
Lance Ferguson has already demonstrated the eclecticism of his influences, in projects ranging from Lanu’s lounge-pop to his main concern, funk outfi... Read more »| 27 Nov 2012 -
Books
The Poetry Club: Neu Reekie @ SWG3, 22 November
Neu Reekie's reputation as one of Scotland's poremier spoken word events is well deserved and hard-earned, and after making a huge success of their Edinburgh events, they have begun carving out a niche for themselves in Glasgow Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
MusicThe Fall / Red Stars @ The Arches, 21 November
Mark E Smith's choice of support act – fellow Salford band Red Stars – is execrable tonight. Performing to a backing track, the duo consist of a ... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
Art
Sonica: Tales of Magical Realism Part 2 @ Tramway
Sven Werner’s participatory installation is the follow-up to his highly successful Tales of Magical Realism Part 1. It is an immersive embodiment ... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
Music
Fairhorns – Doki Doki Run
Matt Loveridge of Team Brick and BEAK> is a veteran Invada player, one of the core constituents of the label run by Portishead's Geoff Barrow. On this sol... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
Music
Various Artists – Some Songs Side-By-Side
Jointly assembled by a trio of labels, with 22 tracks across four sides of vinyl and artwork from eight different artists, this endeavour is evidently more... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012
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MusicMartin Rossiter – The Defenestration of St Martin
Eight years since the curtain came down on Gene, Martin Rossiter has lost none of his earnestness or theatricality. Grandly opening the grandly titled The ... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
MusicWaves of Fury – Thirst
It doesn’t take long to get a handle on Waves of Fury. A few seconds of distorted piano ease you in to opener Death of a Vampire, then BAM! – a ... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
Film
Polisse
A vérité-style drama based on the daily work of Paris’s ‘Brigade de protection des mineurs,’ Polisse’s treatment o... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
Music
Franz Ferdinand @ Mono, 16 November
Ten years ago, a former Mexican restaurant located beneath a disused railway line was turned into Glasgow’s newest live venue. Mono was the vision of C... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
Film
Sightseers
Ben Wheatley’s absurdist Sightseers plays out like a trainspotters' Badlands. There's great wit at play as we follow simmering sociopath Chris and... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
Music
Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra – Towards Other Worlds
The second LP from Leeds’ Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra continues where their self-titled 2010 debut left off; the nine-piece’s musical ancestry rem... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
Music
The Scantharies – The Scantharies
On paper, The Scantharies is a somewhat eccentric project: Andy Dragazis, an Anglo-Greek songwriter, set out to create a greatest hits compilation for an i... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
Art
The Turner Prize 2012
Back in Tate Britain this year after its sojourn to the Baltic, the Turner Prize features Spartacus Chetwynd, Luke Fowler, Paul Noble and Elizabeth Price Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
ArtJoep Van Liefland @ Duchy Gallery
In the Michel Gondry film Be Kind Rewind, a magnetised Jack Black accidentally erases all the tapes in Mos Def's video store. In a harebrained attempt to con... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012