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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ArtMartin Craig: Social Sculpture
With a new show opening, GoMA has invited others to join them in a citywide discussion on sculpture. Curator Martin Craig told us how there’s nothing splendid about isolation Read more »| 05 Mar 2013 -
BooksThe Investigation by Philippe Claudel
Philippe Claudel’s latest novel is an engrossing and often frustrating descent into the irritation and tyranny of the modern world. Frustrating becau... Read more »| 05 Mar 2013 -
BooksStonemouth by Iain Banks
Stewart Gilmour returns home, after 5 years, to the small town of Stonemouth to attend a funeral, but only after getting permission from the Murstons, one of... Read more »| 05 Mar 2013 -
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 -
Clubs
DJ 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
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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 -
Music
Church 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 -
Music
Steve 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 -
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 -
Film
Film 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