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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ArtDashnDem & Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen @ DCA
DashnDem’s Imagine Being a World Leader adorns Gallery 1 of the DCA with all the artifice of the political Summit; a red carpet, the backdrop of a stat... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
ClubsDJ MikeQ @ Killer Kitsch, Buff Club, 16-17 October
The re-emergence of musical sub-genres usually requires a willing ambassador at the helm, taking the sound beyond its original parameters and geographical bo... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
Music
PAWS / North American War @ CCA, 4 October
Tonight begins with a major disappointment: the promised rum and coke floats are unavailable. The CCA weren’t keen on the potential mess, explains a ba... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
Music
Omar Rodríguez-López Group @ Stereo, 30 September
The Omar Rodríguez-López Group is a chimera, not a band – a catch-all name to encompass an ever-changing line-up expounding Omar’s... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
ArtSonica 2012: Adventures in Sound
From the team behind Cryptic Nights, Sonica offers a programme dedicated to presenting sonic art for the visually minded in venues across the city of Glasgow Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
Comedy
Tig Notaro – Live!
Comedy has been in the news for all the wrong reasons recently. Aggresive, misogynistic, tolerant of rape and, worst of all, a bit pointless. That final char... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012
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Comedy
Crystal Baws: October 2012 Horoscopes
ARIES Your intestinal parasite has gotten rather large lately, and this month things cross a very special barrier when you finally become the parasite trappe... Read more »| 05 Oct 2012 -
Music
The Lost and Damned: ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead return with a fury
As they set about releasing their blistering eighth album, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead’s multi-instrumentalist Jason Reece talks Texan prog, German punk and Scottish niceties Read more »| 05 Oct 2012 -
FilmWho'll Blink First?: Filming Ai Weiwei
With her documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry out on DVD on the 8 Oct, The Skinny talks to director Alison Klayman about the challenges involved in creating her sympathetic portrait of a complex man. Read more »| 05 Oct 2012 -
Film
Ruby Sparks
Not another indie movie, Ruby Sparks is the second feature from Little Miss Sunshine directing duo Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton. Penned by actress Zoe ... Read more »| 05 Oct 2012 -
Music
Pyramid Songs: Efterklang bring their elegant new LP to The Usher Hall
From a frozen ghost town in the Arctic to the stage of Sydney Opera House, Efterklang’s Rasmus Stolberg maps out their fourth album’s journey Read more »| 04 Oct 2012 -
Books
Battleborn by Clare Vaye Watkins
Nevada is a curious place, a barometer of presidential elections - the state has an almost faultless record in voting for the winner. And whilst the gambling... Read more »| 04 Oct 2012 -
Music
Anything Goes: Duff McKagan talks Loaded, GN'R's legacy and living in the present
As he looks forward to Loaded's part in Alice Cooper's Night of Fear in Edinburgh this month, founding Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan discusses new project Walking Papers, the future of Velvet Revolver and the legacy of his old band Read more »| 04 Oct 2012 -
Music
Gallows: "It's time for us to come back and come back hard"
Following the release of their ferociously uncompromising self-titled album last month, Gallows' Laurent "Lags" Barnard and Wade MacNeil talk us through the band's new global outlook, the birth of Venn Records, and the future of Gallows 2.0. Read more »| 04 Oct 2012 -
Music
Brasstronaut – Mean Sun
As their clunky name indicates, trumpets aren’t just an occasional adornment in Brasstronaut’s songwriting; they’re its heart. Like debut... Read more »| 04 Oct 2012