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 Sword @ The Cathouse, 10 May
To state that the entire history of metal is essentially a footnote to Black Sabbath might be slightly overstating the point, but for those bands that remain... Read more »| 13 May 2011 -
MusicDamon & Naomi @ Captain's Rest, 9 May
After supplying loose drums for Richard Youngs’ support slot (**), Damon Krukowski reveals their collaboration on forthcoming drone-folk album Amplifyi... Read more »| 13 May 2011 -
MusicWild Beasts @ Òran Mór, 6 May
On balance, Wild Beasts’ introduction of songs from an album (Smother) which had yet to be released at the time of this show proves quite successful, w... Read more »| 13 May 2011 -
ArtWarm Struggle @ Studio 41
Opened not all that long ago, Studio 41 is a small shop front gallery near the art school in Glasgow. Unlike some artist run spaces, it seems less intent on ... Read more »| 13 May 2011 -
FilmFuture Shorts ONE: May edition
Future Shorts ONE, a night of sartorial conformity, numb buttocks and, most significantly, excellent short films Read more »| 13 May 2011 -
Music
HomeGame 2011 @ Various Venues, Anstruther, 6-8 May
FRIDAY “You’ll be here to see the Fence boys then?” So enquires our elderly B&B host with the obvious pride and familiarity that has c... Read more »| 12 May 2011
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Art
Captain Hate and the Golden Babies @ HAUNT
A new art space is launched in a back alley off Argyle Street, Glasgow. Known as HAUNT, it’s a smelly little corner of the city perfect for doing things you don’t want others to know about and will play host to a new performance by Captain Hate called The Golden Babies and the New Aesthetic – which sounds in every way terrifying. We ask the Captain to shed a little light on the event Read more »| 12 May 2011 -
Music
Ryan Driver – Who's Breathing?
It’s best to take all press release hyperbole with a shovel of salt, but claiming that Ryan Driver “just made the greatest soul record of the dec... Read more »| 11 May 2011 -
Art
Jeff Koons @ Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
It’s hard to decide if Jeff Koons is laughing with us, at us, or all the way to the bank. Despite his work comprising mainly of colourful kitsch, he&rs... Read more »| 10 May 2011 -
Film
Taxi zum Klo (Taxi to the John)
It's been 30 years since Frank Ripploh shocked the world with this semi-autobiographical depiction of the reality of being gay in 1980s West Berlin. It remai... Read more »| 10 May 2011 -
Art
Manus Manus @ Project Rooms
Art enthusiasts keen to spot the next Tracy Emin or Sarah Lucus would be well advised to pay a visit to Manus Manus, an exhibition of work from the City of G... Read more »| 10 May 2011 -
Music
The Berg Sans Nipple – Build With Erosion
The songs on Build With Erosion, the second full-length from Parisian/Nebraskan duo The Berg Sans Nipple, make a virtue of a sparse musical palette. The comb... Read more »| 09 May 2011 -
Art
Kit Leffler @ Patriothall Gallery
What more suitable way for a late-April art show to open, than with a homage to the impending Royal wedding? In her work, Kit Leffler appropriates images fr... Read more »| 09 May 2011 -
Music
David Thomas Broughton @ The Arches, 6 May
RM Hubbert is discreetly building a reputation as a strikingly talented and distinctive performer of acoustic guitar instrumentals. His flamenco-tinged piece... Read more »| 09 May 2011 -
Books
Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
Alternate history novels can often be clichéd works, where the alteration is that either the Nazis won World War 2, or the South won the American Civi... Read more »| 09 May 2011