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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MusicOne Little Plane – Into the Trees
The second LP from One Little Plane, aka Chicago singer-songwriter Kathryn Bint, is a collection of drowsy, backwoods folk/Americana, underpinned by gentle... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
Art
The Making of Us @ Tramway
A collaboration between theatre director Graham Eatough and artist Graham Fagan, working alongside director of photography Michael McDonough, The Making of U... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
Music
Richard Knox & Frédéric D. Oberland – The Rustle of the Stars
Envisioned as a sonic voyage through the vast and barren reaches of the North Pole, this collaborative album between multi-instrumentalist Fréd&eacu... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
FilmGoodbye First Love
Mia Hansen-Løve's Goodbye First Love covers the well-worn ground of teenage romance, but it does so with a sensitivity and honesty that makes the subj... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
Film
Film Event Highlights – May 2012
Highlights of film events happening in May across Scotland Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
Film
American Pie: Reunion
All hail the class of 99, the birth of the MILF and the induction of pie fornication into pop culture. It has been 13 years since the first slice of American... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012
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MusicGringo Star – Count Yer Lucky Stars
With track titles including Esmerelda and Mexican Coma, those new to Gringo Star’s schtick might expect their moniker to directly reference their sou... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
Music
Two Wings – Love's Spring
Too often, ‘folk’ is used as a rigid template to which musicians adhere far too strictly, rehashing the past rather than creating something new. ... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
Music
The Metal Column – May 2012
As festival season gets underway, we find that many of our favourite bands are preoccupied in distant lands, leaving us here in the dirt, so to speak, and wi... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
BooksEwan Morrison: Interview From a Mall
Ewan Morrison is the acclaimed author of a trilogy of novels – Swung, Distance and Menage – about alternative sexuality. And so naturally he's followed these up with an examination of the way we shop. Let's go to a mall with him and see what happens. Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
Clubs
Highlife Presents Cut Hands (Live)
Some consider African influences on electronic music to be limited to nothing more than a few sub genres, but anyone who has been schooled by the likes of Gi... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
Clubs
O2 Love Music Column – May 2012
Jimmy Cliff O2 Academy, Sat 19 May Doors 7pm followed by reggae DJs until 2am, £22.50 + BF. Remember when pop music was a force for good? Yes,... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
Comedy
Kunt & The Gang - Sloppy Seconds
Business as usual for one-man filth factory Read more »| 27 Apr 2012 -
Clubs
Goan With The Flo
The release of Auntie Flo's first mini-album and the second anniversary of his global sound parties, Highlife, both take place this month and, as he tells us, these two events are intricately connected Read more »| 27 Apr 2012 -
Music
Holy Esque – Holy Esque EP
Holy Esque's self-released debut EP is an auspicious start for the young Glasgow-based band. They have a cathartic, transcendent sound that harks back to t... Read more »| 26 Apr 2012