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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FilmGFF 2010: The Young Guns
Glasgow Youth Film Festival crams 25 film premieres, events and workshops into just one week, all aimed at young audiences (and of course the young at heart). We pick our favourites from this year’s programme. Read more »| 02 Feb 2010 -
FilmCrazy Horse, Paris with Dita Von Teese
Featuring Dita Von Teese's routines and the cabaret set-pieces from the famous French night-club the Crazy Horse, this DVD presents burlesque as a mixture of... Read more »| 02 Feb 2010 -
MusicThe Fauns - The Fauns
This debut proves to be a blissed-out re-visit of the true, defining sound of the 90's. Read more »| 02 Feb 2010 -
Music
Homegame @ Various Venues, Anstruther, 12-14 Mar
This spring marks the Fence Collective's 7th annual Homegame, taking place over three days in March (Fri 12th - Sun 14th) across various small halls in the C... Read more »| 01 Feb 2010 -
Music
So Far, So Good
After a decade in the wilderness, cult post-hardcore outfit Far return this month with an odd choice of comeback single. As they put the finishing touches to one of the most anticipated new albums of 2010, The Skinny catches up with front man Jonah Matranga to hear the inside word. Read more »| 01 Feb 2010 -
Music
Kassidy - The Rubbergum EP
There’s not enough music in Scotland that makes you want to slap your thigh and chew tobacco. Kassidy have managed to produce such sounds - dus... Read more »| 01 Feb 2010
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Music
The Dirty Dozen - February, 2010
Chris Buckle invites The Vivian Girls back to his deluxe Glasgow mansion for a listen to February’s singles. “We could never be music reviewers!” they gasp. “We’re way too hard to please…” Read more »| 01 Feb 2010 -
Music
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?
Perhaps the BJM's most motley selection of songs to date, Who Killed Sgt. Pepper? finds Anton Alfred Newcombe embracing both stylistic eclecticism an... Read more »| 01 Feb 2010 -
Clubs
Justus Köhncke @ Cottoncake, 15 Jan
With January a period of clubbing abstinence for many thanks to the familiar combination of post-festive season blues and over-stretched finances, it’s a brave club promoter who books a guest during this reliably fallow period. Read more »| 01 Feb 2010 -
Theatre
Alan Bissett @ Citizens Theatre, 9-13 Feb
A self-confessed ‘sensitive extrovert’, literary chameleon Alan Bissett is taking to the stage for a double feature of his play, The Ching Room, and spoken word ‘one woman show’, The Moira Monologues. Read more »| 01 Feb 2010 -
ClubsFelix Cartal @ RPZ, 4 Feb
Blog wonder boy Felix Cartal makes his debut at RPZ Read more »| 01 Feb 2010 -
Theatre
The Process is the Product
Where does the essence of performance hide? Is it in the end product, or is it tucked away inside daily life and the way that that product is developed? Read more »| 01 Feb 2010 -
Film
Kamikaze Girls
Edited at a frenetic pace, trawling through Japanese sub-cultures and using lurid, intense cinematography, Kamikaze Girls is a female buddy movie re-invented... Read more »| 01 Feb 2010 -
Film
Edge of Darkness
Whether he's taking a beating or dishing one out, Mel Gibson is an actor who's energised by violence, so he's perhaps the inevitable choice to play a vengefu... Read more »| 29 Jan 2010 -
MusicOno Palindromes - The Cum EP
With today's guitar clutching kids variously assimilating the sounds of Vampire Weekend, Klaxons or the Arctic Monkeys, the good ship Punk currently finds it... Read more »| 29 Jan 2010