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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MusicWe Are Augustines – Rise Ye Sunken Ships
It’s hard not to admire Billy McCarthy, frontman and chief lyricist of New York band We Are Augustines. Their debut album is based loosely around the c... Read more »| 27 Feb 2012 -
Film
GFF 2012: Herzog at the Festival
Werner Herzog's films have become a staple of GFF's programme. We examine why the man who once ate his own shoe continues to excite festival-goers everywhere. Read more »| 27 Feb 2012 -
BooksSeven Stanzas about StAnza
How best to preview the programme at this year's StAnza Poetry Festival? There's no way we can cover all the highlights. So here are a few, but written in verse. Why? Consider it a test – if you can get through this nonsense, you'll bloody love StAnza... Read more »| 27 Feb 2012 -
Music
Andrew Bird – Break It Yourself
Now eight albums deep into his career, it’s tempting to view Andrew Bird as a latter day, violin-toting Paul Simon. With the syrupy, seductive voice an... Read more »| 24 Feb 2012 -
FilmGFF 2012: Livid
Bustillo and Maury’s follow-up to their delightfully twisted Inside sticks to a similar recipe of awkward laughs and chills, but with less inspired res... Read more »| 24 Feb 2012 -
FilmGFF 2012: Bel Ami
Bel Ami, based on a Guy de Maupassant novel, marks the feature debut of directors Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod. The quality of the sets, costumes and ca... Read more »| 24 Feb 2012
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Film
GFF 2012: Omar Killed Me
It’s obvious Omar Killed Me is based on fact; no fictional equivalent would make its central injustice so glaring. The film presents the murder convict... Read more »| 24 Feb 2012 -
Film
GFF 2012: Weimarvellous
Weimarvellous attempts to recall the heady decadence of 1920s Berlin through a programme of burlesque, readings and cabaret karoake. The Blue Angel, whi... Read more »| 24 Feb 2012 -
Music
School of Seven Bells – Ghostory
Once lost, momentum is often difficult to recover – a plight New York's School of Seven Bells must by now be familiar with. While 2008 debut Alpin... Read more »| 24 Feb 2012 -
Film
GFF 2012: Urban Decay – Death Watch unearthed
As the long forgotten Death Watch returns to the big screen at GFF, we examine its connection with Glasgow Read more »| 24 Feb 2012 -
FilmGFF 2012: Cry Parrot presents Umberto
With the contents of Umberto's special performance still shrouded in mystery, we talk to Cry Parrot's Fielding Hope about their collaboration for GMFF Read more »| 24 Feb 2012 -
Music
Lee Ranaldo – Between the Times and the Tides
With any new Lee Ranaldo album, the first question to ask is: which Ranaldo? In Sonic Youth, his work veers from straight-up rock to obtuse noise; in his dow... Read more »| 23 Feb 2012 -
Music
Grimes – Visions
“I would say this is my psychedelic new jack swing IDM album,” says Claire Boucher without a trace of irony. She’s not too far off the mark... Read more »| 23 Feb 2012 -
Music
Spoek Mathambo – Father Creeper
Soweto’s Spoek Mathambo situates his music amidst contemporary collisions between traditional African styles and hip-hop, dubstep and house. Opener Kit... Read more »| 23 Feb 2012 -
Music
Dirty Three – Toward the Low Sun
Over the Dirty Three’s career, a tension has become increasingly apparent: between the narcotic rapture of their live performances, and the sense of so... Read more »| 23 Feb 2012