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 Fall – Ersatz G.B.
Having created two essential Fall albums in recent times (last year's Your Future Our Clutter and 2008's Imperial Wax Solvent), Mark E Smith's current l... Read more »| 27 Oct 2011 -
ComedySteve-O: "Sobriety hasn't made me calm down"
Steve-O, of Jackass fame, tells The Skinny about the move from stunts to stand-up Read more »| 27 Oct 2011 -
Music
Live Music Highlights – November 2011
King Creosote & Kid Canaveral play a slew of dates this month in support of their forthcoming collaborative 7" single. Perky indie-pop vibes and top-draw... Read more »| 27 Oct 2011 -
BooksKilling the Messenger by Christopher Wallace
Mental health as a vote-winning issue might stretch the most overactive of imaginations, but that’s the premise behind Killing The Messenger. ... Read more »| 27 Oct 2011 -
Film
The Conversation
With the News of the World phone tapping scandal fresh in our minds comes the timely re-release of Francis Ford Coppola's study of surveillance, The Con... Read more »| 27 Oct 2011 -
Comedy
Claudia O'Doherty: "Sharks are the opposite of pandas"
This Autumn, Claudia and David O'Doherty (surname coincidental) follow up their 2009 book 100 Facts About Pandas with 100 Facts About Sharks. Claudia tells us why Read more »| 27 Oct 2011
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Music
Magazine – No Thyself
Boasting a résumé which includes founding seminal punk icons The Buzzcocks before dropping out to lead the post-punk forays of cult heroes Maga... Read more »| 26 Oct 2011 -
Books
Work! Consume! Die! by Frankie Boyle
Frankie Boyle’s new book is a curious mixture of the expected harsh humour with social commentary and fiction. The book is a series of chapters of Fran... Read more »| 26 Oct 2011 -
Music
Envy @ Stereo, 24 October
Tonight, Envy are awesome in the truest sense of the word. Their set isn’t exactly varied, but it is consistently soul-stirring: guitars start out icy ... Read more »| 26 Oct 2011 -
Music
Hot Ticket of the Month: 20 Years of Sleaze
We're not usually big on birthdays, but Nice N Sleazy turns 20 this month, and it seems like an appropriate moment to get a little misty eyed about a venue t... Read more »| 25 Oct 2011 -
Music
Bon Iver @ The Usher Hall, 22 October
Dwarfed and surrounded by the overwhelming array of instruments belonging to the nine piece Bon Iver, Canadian singer/songwriter Kathleen Edwards confronts t... Read more »| 25 Oct 2011 -
Music
John Foxx and The Maths @ The Arches, 23 October
As the frontman for Ultravox until 1979, John Foxx was central to the development of synthpop, a genre which has branched off in myriad unforeseen directions... Read more »| 25 Oct 2011 -
Books
The Glamour Chase by Tom Doyle
First published a year after Billy Mackenzie’s suicide in 1997, the 2011 edition of The Glamour Chase contains a Foreword written by Björk (descri... Read more »| 25 Oct 2011 -
Film
Weekend
Weekend is your atypical (in Movieland) boy meets boy love story. On an impromptu Friday night cruising a cheesy nightclub in unglamorous Nottingham, Russell... Read more »| 25 Oct 2011 -
Music
Wolves in the Throne Room @ Stereo, 23 October
Eco-spiritualist brothers-in-arms Nathan and Aaron Weaver cast a dark spell over Glasgow this evening with their meditative, trance-inducing brand of black m... Read more »| 25 Oct 2011