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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FilmAgents Provocateur: Shocktober @ GFT
Glasgow Film Theatre offers up five films from across the globe that will make your toes curl and your heart skip a beat Read more »| 03 Oct 2011 -
MusicStop the Presses: October
Artists & Designers: Fruit Tree Foundation Needs You! You may recall that last year the Fruit Tree Foundation brought together a stellar... Read more »| 03 Oct 2011 -
FilmThe Beaver
It is hard to come to The Beaver without preconceptions, starring as it does Tinseltown's greatest pariah and featuring a story about a man who talks through... Read more »| 03 Oct 2011 -
MusicBirdengine – The Crooked Mile
Birdengine is the creative output of Lawry Joseph Tilbury. Following a number of releases on Benbecula Records, The Crooked Mile is his first full length alb... Read more »| 03 Oct 2011 -
Music
Gauntlet Hair – Gauntlet Hair
Denver duo Gauntlet Hair garnered quite a bit of attention in the blogosphere last year with their accessible blend of echoey noise-pop, and now they're back... Read more »| 03 Oct 2011 -
Film
Glasgay! 2011: The Films
We preview the film event at this year's annual festival of queer culture Read more »| 03 Oct 2011
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Music
Anathema – Falling Deeper
Seemingly unsatisfied with their transformation from Paradise Lost-worshipping doomsters to prog-rockers du jour, Falling Deeper sees Anathema cherry-picking... Read more »| 03 Oct 2011 -
Theatre
Theatre Venue of the Month: Macrobert
Here's to forty more years Read more »| 03 Oct 2011 -
Art
Martin Boyce: Urban Legend
Martin Boyce is one of two Scotland-based artists nominated for this year's Turner Prize. Showing at the Baltic, Gateshead, from 21 October as part of the prize's annual show, we hear how the venue, the city and design have impacted on his work Read more »| 03 Oct 2011 -
MusicEmily Scott – I Write Letters I Never Send
Returning with her third long-player I Write Letters I Never Send, Edinburgh-based multi-instrumentalist Emily Scott builds on the success of 2009 sophomore ... Read more »| 03 Oct 2011 -
Film
Chalet Girl
With a made-for-TV screenplay thinly veiled as a funky new take on mountaintop athletics, Chalet Girl follows ex-skateboarder Kim, a plain Jane with a big he... Read more »| 01 Oct 2011 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: October Horoscopes
ARIESIn October you finally fall on that spike all your friends bought you for your birthday back in April.TAURUSThis month you suffer a suspiciously realist... Read more »| 30 Sep 2011 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen – October 2011
Rebecca Taylor and Charles Watson, AKA Slow Club, take time out from seducing Scottish crowds to reacquaint themselves with the good old CD single Read more »| 30 Sep 2011 -
Film
Midnight in Paris
Woody Allen’s latest feature is as much a love letter to Paris as Manhattan was to its namesake. The opening montage of la Ville-Lumière ac... Read more »| 30 Sep 2011 -
Music
Live Music Highlights – October 2011
Taking place over the weekend of 30 Sep/1 Oct, the Eastern Promise two-day festival returns to Glasgow's Platform this year. Arty electronic two-piece Tarwat... Read more »| 30 Sep 2011