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 2013: Margaret Tait, Film Poet
This unassuming documentary from Glasgow Women’s Library is a short and sweet introduction to Scottish filmmaker and poet Margaret Tait. Since her deat... Read more »| 16 Feb 2013 -
MusicMemory Drawings / Chris Tenz / Talvihorros @ The Banshee Labyrinth, 10 February
Talvihorros, the pen name of Edinburgh musician Ben Chatwin, is described as “a study of guitar and electronics,” on his website. As such, tonigh... Read more »| 15 Feb 2013 -
MusicDesaparecidos / We Are The Physics @ The Arches, 9 February
With their vaudevillian flair as abundant as ever, We Are The Physics are on fine, frenetic form this evening. Wise-cracking and Orinoco Flow-ing t... Read more »| 15 Feb 2013 -
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The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 15 February
Tony Visconti on the new David Bowie album; 20 years of War Child; new music from Suuns, Kurt Vile, Purity Ring and The Thermals, plus festival bills announced for HebCelt, End of the Road, Bloodstock and Love Supreme Read more »| 15 Feb 2013 -
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French shoegazers Team Ghost unveil their long-awaited debut
Gallic electro-shoegaze rockers Team Ghost are set to blaze a trail through the year with debut album Rituals. The Skinny got the lowdown from singer Nicolas Fromageau (ex-M83), synth-wizard Benoît DeVilleneuve and guitarist Christophe Guérin Read more »| 15 Feb 2013 -
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GFF 2013: Strings
For a teenager to do anything other than get smashed all day and draw their name on bus stops is pretty impressive. Writing, directing and shooting a feature... Read more »| 15 Feb 2013
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GFF 2013: The Final Member
The proud owner of the Icelandic Phallological Museum, Sigurður Hjartarson suffers from a peculiar form of penis envy. His collection could rightly be de... Read more »| 15 Feb 2013 -
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Local Heroes: Nick Higgins on We Are Northern Lights
Scotland’s first ever mass participation film project, We Are Northern Lights, has its world première at GFF. We spoke to Nick Higgins, the driving force behind the venture Read more »| 15 Feb 2013 -
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Cinema's Outer Limits: preview of Crossing the Line @ GFF 2013
We preview Crossing the Line, the GFF strand where movies escape the restraints of traditional genres and narratives Read more »| 15 Feb 2013 -
FilmNight Movies: Daniel Warren on Whatever Gets You Through the Night
Director Daniel Warren talks to us about creating the moving image element of groundbreaking cross-disciplinary arts project Whatever Gets You Through the Night Read more »| 14 Feb 2013 -
Music
Valentine's Day: Hudson Mohawke's Slow Jams VI Mixtape
Gun clacks and Lionel Richie feature in Glasgow producer's seventh St. Valentine's mix Read more »| 14 Feb 2013 -
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GFF 2013: Populaire
Glasgow Film Festival 2013 opens with Populaire, Régis Roinsard's French take on the Pygmalion myth. Sure to appeal to those with a taste in gend... Read more »| 14 Feb 2013 -
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Opinion: Dear Hollywood
After years of substandard rom-coms we kick Hollywood to the kerb in favour of an exotic stranger Read more »| 14 Feb 2013 -
Books
The Library of Unrequited Love by Sophie Divry
It would seem a good plan to release a book about love, for lovers of books, on St Valentine’s Day, but this is an odd one for that particular date. Th... Read more »| 14 Feb 2013 -
Music
Autechre – Exai
Eleven albums deep into a career that reached new heights of expressiveness with 2010's emotionally-charged Oversteps LP (reviewed here), Exai ... Read more »| 13 Feb 2013