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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MusicFat Goth – One Hundred Percent Suave
Fat Goth don't have immediate crossover appeal; their music is too heavy and takes too many sharp changes in direction that can leave the casual listener str... Read more »| 29 Apr 2014 -
BooksFive Came Back by Mark Harris
According to Mark Harris, Frank Capra once made Oscar nominees stand on the stage together before he announced the winner. The five film directors that ... Read more »| 29 Apr 2014 -
Film
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
This was the last of Hammer’s Frankenstein films, a return to the original franchise and star Peter Cushing following 1970’s ill-advised re-boot ... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
ArtAnne Collier @ The Modern Institute
As part of Glasgow International 2014, New York-based artist Anne Collier continues her feminist investigations into the photographic mechanics of gaze and s... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Art
Post-Military Cinema: Beatriz Santiago Muñoz @ Transmission Gallery
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz returns to Glasgow with Post-Military Cinema, part of Glasgow International Festival 2014. Her latest work is an anthropologica... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
ClubsScotland Clubbing Highlights – May 2014
As summer beckons, we look to a selection of acts including DJ Harvey, Omar-S and Head High to bring the heat... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014
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Theatre
It's the Merry Month of May!
One month closer to summer means one month closer to the Edinburgh Fringe and the Edinburgh International Festival. However, before critics start to run amok up and down the Royal Mile, Glasgow has a few festive events of its own Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Music
Love Buzz: Brody Dalle on balancing motherhood with recording her solo debut
With her first solo release Diploid Love set to confirm her as an increasingly accomplished songwriter, Brody Dalle explains why the dual demands of family and music are a problem she's happy to have Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Art
You Are …Gold!
With a major new survey exhibition of Scottish Gold open at The Hunterian, Glasgow, we take a look at the history of this precious yellow metal and a tour around its use in contemporary art today. Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
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Destroying Art @ GoMA
GoMA’s middle floor has been transformed into the bowels of curatorial constipation by Atelier’s modest selection of free materials and open in... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
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Avery Singer @ McLellan Galleries
Commissioned by Glasgow International, Avery Singer’s work hangs in the upper echelons of Sauchiehall Steet’s McLellan Galleries. The five canv... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Books
A Life of Letters: Alasdair Gray Returns
Alasdair Gray is back with a new autobiography, Of Me & Others, and his to-do list is still more impressive than yours Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Film
Film News: Tom Hardy on the making of Locke; Future Shorts Edinburgh programme unveiled
Tom Hardy and director Steven Knight on the making of Locke; a look at the forthcoming Future Shorts Edinburgh programme; plus the latest casting rumours and trailers, featuring Justice League, Goonies 2, Richard Linklater's Boyhood, and more Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Music
The Body / VOE @ Audio, Glasgow, 22 April
Dotted inbetween the bald-headed and bearded metal-heads who are tonight's main audience are a handful of nervous-looking hipster types (this reviewer among ... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
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Richard Hawkins: Hijikata Twist @ Tate Liverpool, until 11 May
Sadako crawls in jerking slow-motion out of the well and into her victim’s television set in Ring, and Kayako, a little less discerning, reigns disjoin... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014