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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MusicBon Iver @ The Usher Hall, 22 October
Dwarfed and surrounded by the overwhelming array of instruments belonging to the nine piece Bon Iver, Canadian singer/songwriter Kathleen Edwards confronts t... Read more »| 25 Oct 2011 -
Music
John Foxx and The Maths @ The Arches, 23 October
As the frontman for Ultravox until 1979, John Foxx was central to the development of synthpop, a genre which has branched off in myriad unforeseen directions... Read more »| 25 Oct 2011 -
BooksThe Glamour Chase by Tom Doyle
First published a year after Billy Mackenzie’s suicide in 1997, the 2011 edition of The Glamour Chase contains a Foreword written by Björk (descri... Read more »| 25 Oct 2011 -
Film
Weekend
Weekend is your atypical (in Movieland) boy meets boy love story. On an impromptu Friday night cruising a cheesy nightclub in unglamorous Nottingham, Russell... Read more »| 25 Oct 2011 -
Music
Wolves in the Throne Room @ Stereo, 23 October
Eco-spiritualist brothers-in-arms Nathan and Aaron Weaver cast a dark spell over Glasgow this evening with their meditative, trance-inducing brand of black m... Read more »| 25 Oct 2011 -
Art
Against Anti-Intellectualism @ SWG3
On the exhibition’s poster is written its title in block capital letters in black tape. Its visceral nature little correlates with what one imagi... Read more »| 25 Oct 2011
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MusicYusaf Azak – Prizefighter EP
Having previously released an album with locally respected Edinburgh based label Song, by Toad, Yusaf Azak has chosen to release this EP on his lonesome thro... Read more »| 25 Oct 2011 -
Music
Marble Valley – Breakthrough
Having ex-Pavement and Silver Jews drummer Steve West at the helm has consistently led globe-spanning collective Marble Valley towards the slacker cool of hi... Read more »| 25 Oct 2011 -
Music
Lou Reed & Metallica – Lulu
A collaboration between Velvet Underground founder Lou Reed and thrash pioneers Metallica is indeed as bizarre as it sounds. Read: Lulu is a 90 minute concep... Read more »| 24 Oct 2011 -
Music
Sandro Perri – Impossible Spaces
Sandro Perri – best known for his work under the Polmo Polpo moniker – combines relaxing, intimate folk and long, meandering instrumental section... Read more »| 24 Oct 2011 -
Film
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Loosely based on the true story of serial killer Henry Lee Lucas, who confessed to over 600 murders, John McNaughton's controversial magnum opus is as far fr... Read more »| 24 Oct 2011 -
FilmIn the Realm of the Senses
A film based on the exploits of a woman who carried her lover's severed penis around in her handbag really ought to be more entertaining than this. Director... Read more »| 24 Oct 2011 -
Music
Sonic Youth – Hits Are For Squares
Hits Are For Squares sees a gallery of pop culture's most credible Generation X-ers chipping in with their nomination for Sonic Youth's most killer anti-cla... Read more »| 24 Oct 2011 -
Art
Warp And Woof @ CCA
Artists Anna Barham (London) and Bea Mahon (Dublin) show together for the first time at CCA’s exhibition Warp and Woof. Both originally studied mathema... Read more »| 24 Oct 2011 -
Music
Tom Waits – Bad As Me
Tom Waits' music does what all great art should, it creates worlds. His is a universe as vivid and colourful as any film despite the fact they’re birth... Read more »| 24 Oct 2011