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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MusicAutechre: Flux Capacity
Cutting through the shit to get to the root of Autechre's brilliance Read more »| 06 Apr 2011 -
Theatre
Confusion Is Sex: The Two Year Itch
For the past two years, Gamma Ray Dali has been evolving Confusion is Sex as more than just another dance club: her active interest in performance, visual art and capturing a unique atmosphere has seen her incorporate influences from the worlds of fashion, Live Art, burlesque and gigs. As April's second birthday party approaches, The Skinny decided it was time to have a word with her Read more »| 06 Apr 2011 -
MusicThe Dirty Dozen – Phantom Band Takeover
Pulling no punches, Greg Sinclair and Duncan Marquiss of The Phantom Band stick it to the April singles Read more »| 06 Apr 2011 -
Music
Sleepingdog – With Our Heads In The Clouds And Our Hearts In The Fields
Sleepingdog is the musical lovechild of True Bypass’ Chantal Acda and Adam Wiltzie of Stars of the Lid fame; as angelic a collaboration as anyone famil... Read more »| 06 Apr 2011 -
Music
Trail of Dead vs Rival Schools
As ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead and Rival Schools prepare to share a tour-bus for a co-headlining tour of Europe, Conrad Keely makes his journalistic debut with a get-to-know Q&A for Walter Schreifels Read more »| 06 Apr 2011 -
FilmAll Night Horror Madness 2
Ever since Jesus rolled back that rock all those years ago and scared the shit out of some Romans, people have loved a sequel. And what better way to celebra... Read more »| 06 Apr 2011
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Clubs
The Feeling in the Air Is Electrikal
Having been responsible for some of the best underground bass music nights in the past year, the Electrikal Sound System has been turning heads and tuning ears into the emerging Scottish (and UK) underground sounds. We caught up with the core members of the collective to talk about how it all started, what they have achieved and what they hope to do in the future Read more »| 06 Apr 2011 -
FilmAaron Katz: Mumblecore Comes In From The Cold
Aaron Katz, the talented director behind mumblecore hits Dance Party USA and Quiet City, discusses his new film Cold Weather Read more »| 06 Apr 2011 -
Theatre
Chouf Ouchouf: A Taste of the Medina
The Skinny talks to Crying Out Loud's Artistic Director Rachel Clare about Moroccan acrobatics ahead of their nationwide tour of Chouf Ouchouf Read more »| 05 Apr 2011 -
Theatre
Rent @ Church Hill Theatre
Everybody needs help... Read more »| 05 Apr 2011 -
Theatre
Pandas
With a script by one of Scotland's busiest playwrights, Pandas is a comic thriller that reaches from Edinburgh to China. Three couples get tangled up in stolen Chinese rugs, broken hearts and murder in a genre-defying adventure into the underground of lust and crime.Director Rebecca Gatward explains all Read more »| 05 Apr 2011 -
Film
The Be All and End All
As if adolescence isn’t difficult enough, The Be All and End All does a commendable job in giving perspective to teenage trials within the much broader... Read more »| 05 Apr 2011 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: April Horoscopes
ARIES April sees you drift so far up shit creek you're desperately attempting to sculpt a jobby paddle out of handfuls of floating faeces before Mt. Shit er... Read more »| 05 Apr 2011 -
Theatre
Theatre Venue of the Month: The Arches
Perhaps thanks to the credit crunch, Glasgow's performance landscape is shifting. The Arches usually begins its push for Behaviour around this time - the annual jamboree of international experimental work. Yet this year, it has focused on local, emerging artists, leaving May free for the Tron's festival Read more »| 04 Apr 2011 -
Music
Prefuse 73 – The Only She Chapters
Followers of Guillermo Scott Herren’s work as leftfield electronica conjurer Prefuse 73 will naturally expect the unexpected, but his latest full-lengt... Read more »| 04 Apr 2011