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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MusicThe Experimental Tropic Blues Band – Liquid Love
As their name suggests, Belgium’s Experimental Tropic Blues Band specialise in the kind of absurdly overdriven fuzz-blues associated with acts like the... Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
FilmZoey Van Goey's Kim Moore on her score for Hell Unltd
Helen Bigger's influential anti-war film Hell Unltd is being screened at GFT with a specially commissioned score by Kim Moore this month to mark International Women's Day. We spoke to Moore about the project Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
FilmGFF 2013: Arbitrage
With his moneyed exterior and supreme self-assurance, hedge-fund capitalist Robert Miller (Richard Gere) epitomises the maxim that image is everything; that ... Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
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Film Event Highlights - March 2013
This month's film highlights include an all-night horror marathon, a screening of philosophical films, the Bootleg Film Festival, and Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy back-to-back Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
MusicThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 1 March
T Break 2013 opens for submissions; new music from Tricky and The Bronx; Brainfeeder crew and TNGHT define the 'beat' movement; Glasgow premiere of London riots documentary; Festival Watch: Sonar Tokyo, End of the Road and more Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
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GFF 2013: Kuma
Kuma opens with a traditional Turkish wedding, but as events will subsequently underscore, appearances are deceiving. Though ostensibly marrying the young an... Read more »| 01 Mar 2013
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Film
GFF 2013: Random Acts
When invited to produce Random Acts, Jacqui Davies stipulated that she was only interested in broadcasting things that were works of art in themselves, and n... Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
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GFF 2013: The Artist and the Model
Set in the French-Spanish border during World War II, The Artist and the Model is an understated, slow-burning tale about inspiration and beauty. Shot in cri... Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
Books
The Dandy - The Last Issue
This last ever print version of The Dandy is a pretty representative compendium of some 75 stories. The Dandy's humour was never particularly sophistica... Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
Music
Scotland Gig Highlights – March 2013
From the return of shoegaze innovators to the healing sounds of one man and his guitar, March has something up its sleeve for everybody Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: March 2013 Horoscopes
Our regular seer and prognosticator Mystic Mark predicts that March will end horribly. For everyone Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
Clubs
Clubbing Highlights – March 2013
The clubbing highlights this month offer Detroit techno from Derrick May and Rolando, bass music with Loefah, Objekt and Scuba, house from Anja Schenider and Detroit Grand Pubahs, and a whole lot more! Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
Art
Jutta Koether @ DCA, until 21 April
Contemporary German artist Jutta Koether and French classicist Nicolas Poussin may seem an unlikely combination – Poussin’s classical style and e... Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
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Own Art – GI editions
Every two years the behemoth returns, propping up Glasgow’s reputation as an unexplained, miracle-growing melting pot. For three heady weeks it renders... Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
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Going once, going twice... Going to Calton Hill
With their lofty sights set on a future in Edinburgh’s City Observatory, Collective is holding a fabulous fundraising auction. We spoke to director Kate Gray to find out more. Read more »| 01 Mar 2013