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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MusicRussian Circles vs Pelican
Two of Chicago's finest 'post-metal' heavyweights sit down to tell us lies about Brian May Read more »| 04 Apr 2012 -
MusicRecord Store Day in Scotland
On Saturday 21 April thousands of independently owned music stores across the world will celebrate 'Record Store Day.’ Just over a dozen independent record shops in Scotland will participate. We run through some of the special events and releases planned Read more »| 04 Apr 2012 -
ArtHenry Coombes @ House for an Art Lover
Everyone knows we Brits have a mild obsession with social class. Though we congratulate ourselves that the class system is now eroding, artist Jeremy Deller ... Read more »| 04 Apr 2012 -
Film
La Grande Illusion
Perhaps the most striking thing about Jean Renoir's Le Grande Illusion - released in a restored version to mark its 75th anniversary - is its faith in a comm... Read more »| 04 Apr 2012 -
FilmA Midnight Clear
Although perhaps not the cult classic that the accompanying publicity would like us to believe it is, A Midnight Clear is a worthwhile watch, not least for t... Read more »| 04 Apr 2012 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen – April 2012
With some of the most generous Dirty Dozen scores dished out in recent memory, it takes a lot to displease Martin John Henry and the Permanent Skelfs Read more »| 03 Apr 2012
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Art
Kilian Rüthemann and Kate V Robertson @ David Dale
David Dale Gallery and Studios recently moved premises. From their old venue in Glasgow’s sunny Bridgeton area in the east end they moved all the way t... Read more »| 03 Apr 2012 -
MusicFeist / M. Ward @ Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 27 March
With nothing but an acoustic guitar and a voice of honey and dust, M. Ward saunters onstage alone. As he solemnly paces the boards, it’s easy to appre... Read more »| 03 Apr 2012 -
Film
Trailer Trash #5: Cosmopolis
Can R–Pattz cut it in David Cronenberg's new film Cosmopolis? The film's teaser trailer suggests a resounding yes Read more »| 03 Apr 2012 -
Music
The Cornshed Sisters – Tell Tales
Sisters in the sorority rather than sibling sense, Jennie, Cath, Liz and Marie take turns to sing lead on debut album Tell Tales, and though the sparse inst... Read more »| 03 Apr 2012 -
Music
Maps & Atlases – Beware and Be Grateful
In just two albums Chicago’s Maps & Atlases have experienced the kind of transformation few bands ever encounter. From the epileptic math rock sq... Read more »| 03 Apr 2012 -
Film
Good Rep – April
Five eye-catching repertory screenings happening in April Read more »| 03 Apr 2012 -
Music
Tomat – 01-06 June
The solo debut from Italy’s Davide Tomat is a more conceptual, abstract affair than anything his other projects N.A.M.B. and Niagara have produced. S... Read more »| 03 Apr 2012 -
Art
The Skinny Showcase: Stephen Thorpe
Aberdeen graduate Stephen Thorpe was chosen as The Skinny Award winner at last year's RSA New Contemporaries exhibition. The outcome of his prize is this Showcase and an exhibition, The Poetics of Space, in Edinburgh's Whitespace which opens on 28 April Read more »| 03 Apr 2012 -
Film
Le Havre
Le Havre is Aki Kaurismäki's first film made in France since 1992's La vie de bohème, and it acts as a kind of loose sequel to that picture,... Read more »| 03 Apr 2012