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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ArtJean-Marc Bustamante @ Fruitmarket Gallery
With Jean-Marc Bustamante, the Fruitmarket is decidedly moving on from the visually striking Childish Things (Paul McCarthy’s zipped open doll, anyone?... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
Clubs
Death Disco: Pure Sorcery
The music industry seems to spend the first couple of months of the year crystal-ball gazing, looking beyond the grey mornings and trying to find the artists... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
TheatreHe's Just a Small Town Boy
Zombies in Ayrshire? It must be a social realist drama, then Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
MusicLive Music Highlights – February 2011
Blending druggy guitars, sinister ambience and wordy, gothic lyrical themes, Esben and the Witch are one of the more intriguing acts currently threatening to... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
Music
Stanley Odd – Pure Anti-hero Material EP
The Odd Squad's debut Oddio showed promise: Solareye's direct, witty, well-constructed flows meshed well with the funk-jazz stylings of the band, and Veronic... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
MusicEfterklang @ Òran Mór, 24 Feb
Still fresh from their elegant masterpiece of last year, Magic Chairs, ambitious Danish posse Efterklang head back to Glasgow's Òran Mór for a ... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011
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Art
Martin Creed: Yer Maw
The Skinny talks mothers with Scottish-born artist Martin Creed Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
Clubs
Slabs of the Tabernacle 031: Lone (Live) @ La Cheetah Club, 5 Feb
Slabs of the Tabernacle at La Cheetah in Glasgow is looking to bring in some huge talent this year. The first-Saturday-of-the-month dance night is hosting No... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
Theatre
Macabre Animation
1927 aren't exactly an uncomplicated skip through sunny summer afternoons, but their gothic aesthetic is informed by both a genteel humour and Russian surrea... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
Music
The Luyas – Too Beautiful to Work
Too Beautiful to Work’s dizzying title track sets out an impressive stall. “No one could follow” incants Jessie Stein over repetitive organ... Read more »| 31 Jan 2011 -
Theatre
Venue of the Month: Bedlam
Less chaotic than its name suggests, here is one independent venue set to survive the crunch Read more »| 31 Jan 2011 -
Clubs
Headlock ft. Sir David "Ram Jam" Rodigan & Toddla T
West London based label Headlock will be hosting their first party of 2011 with a rather huge line-up featuring legendary British selector David &ldq... Read more »| 31 Jan 2011 -
Music
Religious To Damn – Glass Prayer
That Zohra Atash, vocalist and the brains to Religious to Damn’s spiritualistic brawn, once spent time filling in for Jarboe will come as no surprise t... Read more »| 31 Jan 2011 -
Music
The Metal Column – February 2011
In the face of the recent panic that 'rock/guitar music is finally dead', we feel obliged to reassure all those lamenting some kind of rock-pocalypse that yo... Read more »| 31 Jan 2011 -
Film
Film Events – February 2011
For the romantics out there, head to the GFT on Valentine's Day (14 Feb) and take your pick of four love stories, ranging from the classic to the contemporar... Read more »| 31 Jan 2011