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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ArtAutopictography: A Study in Gray
Glasgow polymath Alasdair Gray is starting to receive the celebration his work deserves with a new book spanning his career and two exhibitions in the capital. The Skinny popped round his gaff to learn more about his prolific life in art and writing Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
MusicThe Cathouse: 20 Years of Blood, Sweat and Beers
Celebrating 20 years as the go-to nightspot for the rock-oriented clubber, Glasgow’s Cathouse staff relive five moments from its colourful history Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
MusicRemember Remember: Day of the Scorpion
Remember Remember's Graeme Ronald tests your Greek mythology and gives an insight into the recording of his cosmic new EP Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
Music
6 Day Riot – On This Island
6 Day Riot do not sound like the kind of clan that would partake on such a lengthy riotous off-the-chain bender as their moniker suggests. On the con... Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
MusicYusuf Azak – Turn On the Long Wire
Yusuf Azak is a singer-songwriter without peer, thanks to a voice that proudly earns the epithet ‘acquired taste’. With each encounter, either in... Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
Music
Various – 45 A-Side Records Presents The Glad Cafe
While Glasgow’s hardly starved for venues, those living south of the Clyde are generally underserved. Opening in early 2011, the Glad Cafe aims to rect... Read more »| 01 Nov 2010
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Music
Young Hunting – Attachment in a Child and the Subsequent Condition
If, as some suggest, the very idea of the album is currently facing an existential threat, nobody told Edinburgh’s Young Hunting. Attachment in a Child... Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
Music
Edwyn Collins: Postcard from the Edge
The legendary Edwyn Collins talks new music, bright horizons, and his battle back from the brink Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: November Horoscopes
ARIES Arians are known for their particularly large gas bills, but in times of recession they are also good at thinking miserly. As the builders put in your... Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
Film
Reel Talk: Paul or Pauline
Our new Film Editor introduces himself Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
MusicThe Flowers of Hell – O
The Flowers of Hell aren’t a band in the typical sense, their assemblage more akin to that of an orchestra. Greg Jarvis assembles a revolving line-up o... Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
Art
Robin Thomson @ Generator Projects
Duncan of Jordanstone graduate Robin Thomson returned to Dundee recently for a two-week gallery residency at Generator Projects, putting together an epic and... Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
Theatre
Theatre Venue of the Month: The Traverse
A veritable institution of Scottish Theatre, which remains contemporary, fresh and experimental Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
Music
Be A Familiar – To The Lighthouse
Employing a seven member line-up, with keys and brass included, Glasgow seven-piece Be a Familiar’s aesthetics hint at the multifarious instrumentation... Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
Theatre
Clockwork Orange @ The Citz
Get Dystopic! Read more »| 31 Oct 2010