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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BooksConvictions: My Life With A Good Communist
A re-release of a book first published in 1979, Convictions details Jo Langer’s incredible story of survival in 1950s Communist Czechoslovakia.... Read more »| 28 Mar 2011 -
ClubsClubbing Highlights - April
Electro-house has long been fair game for music journalists. With a few notable exceptions, the genre's short spell at the Zeitgeist of things owed much to i... Read more »| 28 Mar 2011 -
Music
Little Scream – The Golden Record
Earlier in the year, a free download of The Heron And The Fox gave an early taste of Little Scream’s debut album. Modestly backed by The National&rsquo... Read more »| 28 Mar 2011 -
TheatreCinematic Space
It's film, but not as we know it Read more »| 28 Mar 2011 -
FilmEssential Killing
After being detained as an enemy combatant, Taliban fighter Mohammed (Vincent Gallo) is fortuitously freed mid-rendition, forcing the escapee to endure the i... Read more »| 28 Mar 2011 -
Theatre
Sol Pico and Stories Left to Tell
New Territories has retained its power to surprise and enchant: the final two shows, both at Tramway, showcased the festival’s continued enthus... Read more »| 28 Mar 2011
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BooksNew Books by the Cargo Crate
New publishing ‘label’ Cargo Crate describes itself as Scotland’s first eBook/print-on-demand publisher, and it has big ambitions for the future of ‘the book’ Read more »| 25 Mar 2011 -
Art
Christian Newby @ +44 141
Imagine you were to inhabit the pictorial space of a black and white glaze of the 1950s pottery range Homemaker. If so, you’ll have some notion of what... Read more »| 25 Mar 2011 -
Music
Moon Duo – Mazes
Thanks to two well-received EPs and the success of guitarist Ripley Johnson’s other band Wooden Shjips , there are some pretty cut-and-dry preconceptio... Read more »| 25 Mar 2011 -
Music
Take A Worm For A Walk Week – T.A.W.F.A.W.W
Given their two previous recordings, at 25 minutes T.A.W.F.A.W.W qualifies as something of an epic for this feral Glaswegian quartet. In fact the days of 30 ... Read more »| 25 Mar 2011 -
Music
Sarabeth Tucek – Get Well Soon
Sarabeth Tucek's second album is, as the title suggests, about illness – bodily and mental – and its overcoming. From the record's opening line, ... Read more »| 25 Mar 2011 -
Music
Hot Ticket of the Month: Mount Kimbie
Sometimes The Skinny likes to think back to simpler days; days when ‘dance’, ‘classical’, ‘pop' and 'rock’ were the only ... Read more »| 25 Mar 2011 -
Music
The Vivian Girls – Share the Joy
There’s not enough mathematical analysis in music reviews, is there? Shame – a wee bit of number crunching can be insightful. For instance, take ... Read more »| 25 Mar 2011 -
Art
Jeremy Millar: A Portrait of the Artist as a Drowned Man
Artist-cum-shaman Jeremy Millar makes work inspired by the greats. Ahead of his new show at CCA, Jac Mantle hears about the ghostly apparition of one of his heroes Read more »| 25 Mar 2011 -
Music
Daedelus – Bespoke
Daedelus can tear up a dancefloor with his live sets, but his recorded output is about as related to mainstream notions of ‘dance music’ as John ... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011