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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MusicAnathema @ The Cathouse, 10 Feb
It takes a special kind of band to fill a venue with aging rockers, 20-something chin-strokers and weekend goths, but that is precisely what Anathema have ma... Read more »| 17 Feb 2011 -
TheatreBorn Again @ Tron Theatre, 2-5 Mar
Flatrate get that old time religion Read more »| 15 Feb 2011 -
TheatreWrestling @ The Arches, 11 Feb
He's a sly dog, this Rob Drummond. Having spent ages telling every interviewer that there's no real intellectual justification for his love of wrestling, he ... Read more »| 15 Feb 2011 -
Art
Bienvenue Monsieur Bustamante!
Jean-Marc Bustamante talks about his retrospective at Edinburgh's Fruitmarket Gallery Read more »| 15 Feb 2011 -
Music
The Joy Formidable – The Big Roar
Gently infectious and overwhelmingly dreamy, The Joy Formidable's debut full-length The Big Roar marks itself out as the soundtrack du jour for rock 'n' roll... Read more »| 15 Feb 2011 -
Music
Wire @ King Tut's, 9 Feb
Opening to a sold-out King Tut’s, San Francisco’s Weekend proffer a deceptively intricate strain of feedback-driven post-punk. Although only a th... Read more »| 14 Feb 2011
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TheatreStrange Doings
It's a folk session, it's a ballad, it's the NTS Read more »| 14 Feb 2011 -
Music
Canblaster – Master of Complication EP
Canblaster aka Cédric Steffens has without a doubt been responsible for some of the most exciting dance music in the past twelve months. His own conte... Read more »| 14 Feb 2011 -
Art
Stephanie Cairns @ National Gallery of Modern Art
The modesty of Stephanie Cairns' work at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art is more a reflection of the gallery’s somewhat stilted gesture tha... Read more »| 14 Feb 2011 -
FilmGlasgow Youth Film Festival: Boy
Nostalgia is pretty low hanging fruit; after all, evoking the past’s warm glow can be as simple as humming the Dogtanian theme-tune or bemoaning the in... Read more »| 12 Feb 2011 -
Music
Self-Evident – Endings
Listening to Endings is like taking a trip back in time of about ten years, back to when bands like the Dismemberment Plan and At the Drive-In were crafting ... Read more »| 11 Feb 2011 -
Film
Inside Job
Money? It’s a gas. The carnage of Wall Street gets the focus treatment in Charles Ferguson’s timely documentary about the recent global financial... Read more »| 11 Feb 2011 -
Music
The Bellrays – Black Lightning
If doubters can get past the fact that The Bellrays are clearly not high-concept, it would be nice to think they could appreciate the sheer eagerness to rock... Read more »| 10 Feb 2011 -
Music
Aidan Moffat's City of Love
Every couple of years or so around this time, my city likes to remind everyone that somewhere in Glasgow Cathedral lies a box with a few bones that used to b... Read more »| 10 Feb 2011 -
Film
Superheroes In Glasgow
'Comic Book Guy' Thom Atkinson gives the lowdown on what's coming up in GFF11's Mark Millar curated 'Superheroes in Glasgow' strand Read more »| 09 Feb 2011