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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TheatreMotherland @ The Arches
Nic Green has forged a strong reputation for herself on the back of Trilogy, her critically acclaimed feminist meditation from 2009 - now comes Motherland. F... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
TheatreThatcher's Children @ The Arches
Old-school satire is increasingly hard to come by today, but Gary Gardiner seems hell-bent on bringing it back.Last year, his Arches Live! show focused on th... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
TheatreForfeit @ Oran Mor
At first glance, it could be any dysfunctional family - strong matriarch, bratty wee sister and weary older one bickering over the bill in a Wetherspoons. Ho... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
MusicBEAK> – >>
BEAK> could be considered something of a self-indulgent side project for Portishead's Geoff Barrow; a jam-band for a frustrated krautrock afficionado to m... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
Film21 Jump Street
I had a dream. Not the usual one where I'm sent back to school with – for an unexplained but apparently plausible reason – no clothes on. No, thi... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
Music
Aesop Rock – Skelethon
Skelethon is the first album from Aesop Rock to be entirely self-produced, but the template hasn't fluctuated much from the mercurial, experimental approach ... Read more »| 26 Jun 2012
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Music
Dub Pistols – Worshipping The Dollar
Dub Pistols are a force to be reckoned with live, and in the setting of a summer festival there are few better bands to rock out to, with their crowd-ple... Read more »| 26 Jun 2012 -
Music
Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
Predicting the Dirty Projectors’ next step is a pointless task. Led by idiosyncratic frontman David Longstreth, the Brooklyn-based quintet explore ro... Read more »| 26 Jun 2012 -
Music
Paul Heaton – Presents: The 8th
From the live debut of Bjork’s Biophilia to an Amadou and Mariam gig performed in a pitch-black venue, the 2011 Manchester International Festival h... Read more »| 26 Jun 2012 -
Art
GSA Degree Show 2012: The Universe Squeezed Into One Ball
We take our yearly look at the central belt degree shows beginning with the Glasgow School of Art, whose students seem to be considering the darker things in life – and death Read more »| 25 Jun 2012 -
Music
Doseone – G Is For Deep
Doseone is a phenomenal live hip-hop performer – a literal human dynamo who blows on stage in a torrent of manic, high-pitched rapping and a flurry ... Read more »| 25 Jun 2012 -
Theatre
The Brothers’ Keeper @ Oran Mor
The last official show before the summer season of classic play re-workings at Oran Mor, Peter MacDougall’s Brothers is a Bible-black belter of a comed... Read more »| 23 Jun 2012 -
Film
Rampart
A sinking familiarity greets Rampart’s setup. From its plot (corruption in the LAPD) to its players (internal affairs, district attorneys and no-good h... Read more »| 22 Jun 2012 -
Film
The Lost Weekend
From its elegant, telling opening shot – a slow pan across the New York skyline ending at an open window with a bottle suspended on a rope below &ndash... Read more »| 22 Jun 2012 -
Music
Suzanne Vega / Mike Doughty @ Òran Mór, 18 June
Since disbanding Soul Coughing in 2000, Mike Doughty has continued along a similar path: writing songs by turns wry and impassioned, and firmly rooted in a... Read more »| 21 Jun 2012