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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MusicGlasvegas – EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\
So here we go again, the difficult flipside to the great debut, as inevitable as glorious Scottish sporting failure. Euphoria and heartbreak, right e... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
ComedySimon Munnery: "This show has formed like sedimentary rock, through immense periods of time and pressure"
Simon Munnery tell us about the loop of alternativism Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
Film
Faster
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has decided to ditch his recent demeaning, family friendly roles in favour of this retro revenge flick with a gritty 70... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
Music
Weedeater – Jason... The Dragon
If there’s one thing Weedeater are, it’s reliable. Well, that and loud. Then again, so are dozens of other sludge bands, but they just don’... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
Music
letlive – Fake History
The post-hardcore/screamo tag wasn’t always a negative one. It used to be applied to bands who displayed an excess of energy that happened to be expres... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
Music
Bearsuit – The Phantom Forest
Bearsuit are one of the last bands you'd associate with maturity, but that is nonetheless what the Norwich indie-electro outfit seem to be grappling with on ... Read more »| 23 Mar 2011
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Music
Roddy Woomble – The Impossible Song & Other Songs
Picking up where 2006’s My Secret Is My Silence left off, Roddy Woomble’s second solo effort sees him travelling further into folky territory. Wh... Read more »| 23 Mar 2011 -
MusicTindersticks – Claire Denis Film Scores 1996-2009
Over two decades, Nottingham’s Tindersticks have won hearts and minds with their idiosyncratic brand of brooding elegance, while across the channel, Cl... Read more »| 23 Mar 2011 -
ArtSatellite @ East Kilbride Arts Centre
The five artists that make up the collective Satellite visit the remote plains of Daer reservoir in South Lanarkshire. A small gallery in out-of-the-way East... Read more »| 23 Mar 2011 -
Theatre
Onde de Choc
Big sounds, little substance Read more »| 23 Mar 2011 -
Art
Totems of Today
After hosting artists from Ironbbratz studios for its first few shows, Studio 41 sets out to re-invigorate Glasgow’s curating scene. Will Nothing Be Un... Read more »| 23 Mar 2011 -
Music
The Twilight Singers @ The Arches, 19 March
Tonight’s support, the London-based Bookhouse Boys are something of a conundrum. The voice of Catherine Turner – at times tacit and tender, at ot... Read more »| 22 Mar 2011 -
Theatre
Hari Kari @ Tramway
Compagnie Didier Theron are contemporary ballet. There’s a wanton joy in stating this, a wilful desire to provoke an argument. It’s probably jus... Read more »| 22 Mar 2011 -
Music
The Vaccines – What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
Not a year down the line, The Vaccines have been joyously swashing in the sickly sweet juices of hype. Elevated to dizzying heights since landing third place... Read more »| 22 Mar 2011 -
TheatreLord of the Flies @ Theatre Royal
Never a company to play safe, Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures once again prove themselves to be at the forefront of narrative dance Read more »| 21 Mar 2011