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 Lemonheads @ Òran Mór, 5 December
There’s always been something appealingly incongruous about Evan Dando’s approach: simultaneously an angst-ridden college rock icon, and the lova... Read more »| 09 Dec 2011 -
Music
Group Inerane & Flower/Corsano Duo @ Kinning Park Complex, 2 December
The Kinning Park Complex, a recently-established community/arts centre in a former late-Victorian school, tonight boasts one of the more eagerly-anticipated ... Read more »| 09 Dec 2011 -
MusicLanterns On The Lake @ Electric Circus, 30 November
Newcastle duo Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell offer up some sparse yet evocative odes to fickle relationships as tonight’s opening act. From the plainti... Read more »| 09 Dec 2011 -
MusicThurston Moore @ The Arches, 28 November
A flustered arrival onto The Arches stage after being disoriented by the Glasgow streets brings Thurston Moore to a discerning, and disconcertingly polite, s... Read more »| 09 Dec 2011 -
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Muscles of Joy @ Òran Mór, 27 November
Having separated from Divorce, it seems Palms have full custody of singer Sinead, and anyone only familiar with the caterwauling dervish schtick she deployed... Read more »| 09 Dec 2011 -
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Robert Redford / Django Django / She'S Hit @ Nice N Sleazy, 26 November
Tonight’s line-up is a riddle alright, with Hollywood royalty atop a bill of curiously monikered support. First up, the erratically capitalised SHe&rsq... Read more »| 09 Dec 2011
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Comedy
Comedians' Letters: Dear Santa...
Christmas is coming, and we've asked some stars of the Scottish comedy scene to tell us what they're hoping to find in their stockings Read more »| 07 Dec 2011 -
Music
Primal Scream: “It makes you cool with the children, when you're on X Factor"
Andrew Innes talks to The Skinny about Hogmanay in Edinburgh, tension in the studio, and gives a blow by blow account of their forthcoming LP (warning, the last one's a lie) Read more »| 07 Dec 2011 -
Music
Albums of the Year (#1): St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
With Strange Mercy, St Vincent distils melody and madness. We spend an evening in the company of Annie Clark Read more »| 06 Dec 2011 -
Music
Albums of the Year (#2): Bon Iver – Bon Iver
Bon Iver's second album is a wonderful shift in mood and direction – but don't bank on Justin Vernon sticking with either Read more »| 06 Dec 2011 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen – December 2011
We invite Santa and his helpers (A.K.A. Joe, Ian and Johnny from Take A Worm For A Walk Week) to rate and slate December’s singles. Will the yuletide season instil peace and goodwill to all men? With unprintable chat revolving around home-made flesh lights, don’t count on it… Read more »| 06 Dec 2011 -
FilmTrailer Trash #2: New Year's Eve
Garry Marshall, the patron saint of chick flicks, brings the world another candy coated fairytale about love with a cast made up of Hollywood's shiniest – and Robert De Niro. It's enough to make our trailer reviewer puke on his Rudolf jumper Read more »| 06 Dec 2011 -
Comedy
Ric Flair: Stylin’ n’ Profilin’ Since 1949
Wrestling legend and star of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), Ric Flair, is as iconic as he is charismatic as he talks about the upcoming European tour with shows in the UK and beyond Read more »| 06 Dec 2011 -
Comedy
Santa And I Are Done Professionally
Generally, science makes everything better. There's hardly a thing in the world that can't be improved upon by introducing 5 AAA batteries and an electr... Read more »| 05 Dec 2011 -
Art
Christmas Cards 2011
It's become a tradition (if you're allowed to call something that's happening for the third time a tradition) each December for the Showcase to invite back s... Read more »| 05 Dec 2011