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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MusicKobra Audio Labs – Two Blue Towers
K.A.L.'s new release is a musical homage to his hometown of Wishaw. Part audio-collage, part art object, it is released via Bandcamp as a limited-edition cas... Read more »| 13 Dec 2011 -
MusicPlastikman @ Barrowland, 3 December
There is, inevitably, plenty of hype preceding Plastikman’s appearance at the Barrowlands tonight: one of only three UK dates, it represents a rare opp... Read more »| 12 Dec 2011 -
FilmDreams of a Life
On 25 January, 2006, the remains of Joyce Vincent, a 38-year-old former secretary, were found slumped on the couch of her London flat, the telly still blarin... Read more »| 12 Dec 2011 -
Music
The Lemonheads @ Òran Mór, 5 December
There’s always been something appealingly incongruous about Evan Dando’s approach: simultaneously an angst-ridden college rock icon, and the lova... Read more »| 09 Dec 2011 -
Music
Group Inerane & Flower/Corsano Duo @ Kinning Park Complex, 2 December
The Kinning Park Complex, a recently-established community/arts centre in a former late-Victorian school, tonight boasts one of the more eagerly-anticipated ... Read more »| 09 Dec 2011 -
Music
Lanterns On The Lake @ Electric Circus, 30 November
Newcastle duo Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell offer up some sparse yet evocative odes to fickle relationships as tonight’s opening act. From the plainti... Read more »| 09 Dec 2011
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Music
Thurston Moore @ The Arches, 28 November
A flustered arrival onto The Arches stage after being disoriented by the Glasgow streets brings Thurston Moore to a discerning, and disconcertingly polite, s... Read more »| 09 Dec 2011 -
Music
Muscles of Joy @ Òran Mór, 27 November
Having separated from Divorce, it seems Palms have full custody of singer Sinead, and anyone only familiar with the caterwauling dervish schtick she deployed... Read more »| 09 Dec 2011 -
MusicRobert Redford / Django Django / She'S Hit @ Nice N Sleazy, 26 November
Tonight’s line-up is a riddle alright, with Hollywood royalty atop a bill of curiously monikered support. First up, the erratically capitalised SHe&rsq... Read more »| 09 Dec 2011 -
Comedy
Comedians' Letters: Dear Santa...
Christmas is coming, and we've asked some stars of the Scottish comedy scene to tell us what they're hoping to find in their stockings Read more »| 07 Dec 2011 -
Music
Primal Scream: “It makes you cool with the children, when you're on X Factor"
Andrew Innes talks to The Skinny about Hogmanay in Edinburgh, tension in the studio, and gives a blow by blow account of their forthcoming LP (warning, the last one's a lie) Read more »| 07 Dec 2011 -
Music
Albums of the Year (#1): St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
With Strange Mercy, St Vincent distils melody and madness. We spend an evening in the company of Annie Clark Read more »| 06 Dec 2011 -
MusicAlbums of the Year (#2): Bon Iver – Bon Iver
Bon Iver's second album is a wonderful shift in mood and direction – but don't bank on Justin Vernon sticking with either Read more »| 06 Dec 2011 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen – December 2011
We invite Santa and his helpers (A.K.A. Joe, Ian and Johnny from Take A Worm For A Walk Week) to rate and slate December’s singles. Will the yuletide season instil peace and goodwill to all men? With unprintable chat revolving around home-made flesh lights, don’t count on it… Read more »| 06 Dec 2011 -
Film
Trailer Trash #2: New Year's Eve
Garry Marshall, the patron saint of chick flicks, brings the world another candy coated fairytale about love with a cast made up of Hollywood's shiniest – and Robert De Niro. It's enough to make our trailer reviewer puke on his Rudolf jumper Read more »| 06 Dec 2011