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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MusicRyat – Totem
A female solo artist who generates lush, complex electronic soundscapes, which ebb and flow between chamber-pop peaks and shuffling, syncopated glitchy be... Read more »| 23 May 2012 -
ArtDundee 2012: A Degree of Promise
Here's what caught our eye during The Skinny's annual tour round the Duncan of Jordanstone degree show up in Dundee Read more »| 22 May 2012 -
Music
UV PØP – No Songs Tomorrow
John Kevin White was one of the more obscure cult figures to emerge from the 80s post-punk / early electronic scene in 1980s Sheffield. His sometime-band, so... Read more »| 22 May 2012 -
ClubsBalkanarama Special @ Studio 24, 9 Jun
Balkanarama presents a yearly celebration of Eastern European music and culture. Read more »| 21 May 2012 -
MusicScottish Album of the Year 2012 shortlist announced
The ten albums on the shortlist of the Scottish Music Industry Association's inaugural Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) award were announced today. Honed dow... Read more »| 17 May 2012 -
Music
Errors / Mermaids / Mother Ganga @ The Arches, 11 May
Though he’s appeared on many a bill in one guise or another, tonight is Lewis Cook’s first ‘proper’ Mother Ganga show. He’s off... Read more »| 17 May 2012
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Art
The Skinny Showcase: It's Our Playground
Based in Glasgow, It’s Our Playground is the curatorial project of French artists Camille le Houezec & Joey Villemont (b.1986). It’s Our Pla... Read more »| 16 May 2012 -
Theatre
Katiana Was Here @ Sunrise Theatre
A touching, powerful play that explores reactions to disease and death, and to what might come after. Read more »| 16 May 2012 -
Film
Mark Millar: Here Comes Kapow! 19-20 May
Comic book writer, film-maker, magazine publisher and festival curator Mark Millar is to the comic book world what Rupert Murdoch is to the media (only less evil). We speak to the Glaswegian ahead of Kapow!, the annual comic convention he helped create Read more »| 14 May 2012 -
Music
Perfume Genius / Cate Le Bon @ Captain's Rest, 8 May
Cate Le Bon has a clarification to make: contrary to received Twitter wisdom, she is neither German, nor a Viking. We don’t know the context to these m... Read more »| 14 May 2012 -
TheatreRolls In Their Pockets @ Oran Mor
Rolls In Their Pockets is theatre for the Arab Strap generation: raw, bruised and bleakly funny. Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
Theatre
Alegría @ SECC
Cirque du Soleil’s Alegría showcases what must be some of the world’s most talented circus performers. Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
Music
Grimes @ The Berkeley Suite, 7 May
Grimes combines experimental electronica with staggeringly infectious pop in a way which is completely unique Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
Theatre
Seven Day Drunk @ Arches
Seven Day Drunk poses the question - does the devil’s juice aid or hamper creativity? Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
Theatre
Beats @ The Arches
Beats is about the battle of youth versus adults, and underground versus mainstream culture. Read more »| 11 May 2012