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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FilmHobo with a Shotgun
With a title like Hobo with a Shotgun, this film has a lot to live up to – and Jason Eisener's exploitation homage doesn't disappoint. Ageing cult star... Read more »| 11 Jul 2011 -
BooksAaron and Ahmed by Jay Cantor (writer) and James Romberger (artist)
Aaron and Ahmed is subtitled ‘A Love Story’, but it’s not that simple. It’s the story of Aaron, who becomes a soldier in Guantanamo B... Read more »| 07 Jul 2011 -
Film
Jamie Thraves & Aidan Gillen on Treacle Jr.
Treacle Jr. reunites director Jamie Thraves with his leading man from The Low Down, Aidan Gillen. We talked to the pair back in February when they were in Glasgow for the Scottish premiere of Treacle Jr. at the Glasgow Film Festival Read more »| 07 Jul 2011 -
Music
Dave Cloud and the Gospel of Power – Practice in the Milky Way
Dave Cloud's is an authentically American eccentricity, forged in the mould of Tom Waits and Captain Beefheart. His bizarrely lo-fi form of country-inflected... Read more »| 07 Jul 2011 -
MusicFriendo @ 13th Note, 5 July
Neighbourhood Gout open tonight by thrashing and pounding and yelping and hollering all sorts of punk-tuned nonsense about tornados and the end of the univer... Read more »| 07 Jul 2011 -
MusicNeil Diamond @ Hampden Park, 2 July
Last time Neil Diamond visited Hampden, the crowd was forced to brave the elements for a taste of his glittering back catalogue. Not so on this occasion, as ... Read more »| 06 Jul 2011
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Music
The Wrong Boyfriends: "Our acoustic sets were crap. Really, really crap"
Our first date with punk-blooded scoundrels The Wrong Boyfriends started as a guide to Belgian nightlife and ended as an HR crisis meeting Read more »| 05 Jul 2011 -
Comedy
In Profile: Isma Almas
In the list of things associated with the burkha, stand-up comedy must rate close to the bottom. Yet for parts of her 2009 Fringe show, Isma Almas wore one. ... Read more »| 05 Jul 2011 -
Film
The Tree of Life
Simultaneously the most ambitious and intimate work of Terrence Malick's career, The Tree of Life is a film unlike any other in recent American cinema. At th... Read more »| 04 Jul 2011 -
ArtNina Rhode: Friendly Fire / Cara Tolmie: Read Thou Art And Read Thou Shalt Remain @ DCA until 31 July
Dynamic, multi disciplinary installations unite the work of Glasgow born Cara Tolmie and Berlin based Nina Rhode in this intriguing pair of solo exhibitions ... Read more »| 04 Jul 2011 -
Music
TV On The Radio @ O2 ABC, 28 June
When TV On The Radio last played at the ABC, they were cheered by a packed and passionate crowd still enthralled with Dear Science, the band’s hugely s... Read more »| 01 Jul 2011 -
Music
This Will Destroy You @ Ivory Blacks, 28 June
It’s all too easy to be down on East Kilbride’s The Clock, such is their out-of-tune opening instrumental and later dalliance with screamo clich&... Read more »| 01 Jul 2011 -
Theatre
Knives in Hens
David Harrower’s debut play, Knives in Hens returns to the Traverse after 16 years with Lies Pauwels’ vibrant new production, which delves into t... Read more »| 01 Jul 2011 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: July Horoscopes
ARIES As the Universe expands the temperature will cool to absolute zero, the void will slow to an entropic husk and nothing will exist to even observe how ... Read more »| 01 Jul 2011 -
Music
Diva – The Glitter End
When Beth Consentino left Pocahaunted to start Best Coast, she revealed she’d never really liked the music made with the former, and was starting afres... Read more »| 01 Jul 2011