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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ArtOwn Art @ Christmas
The high street is mobbed; queues are hell; you’re overspending and still buying crap – it’s nearly Christmas! Sound about right? Apparentl... Read more »| 03 Dec 2012 -
FilmFilm Event Highlights – December 2012
It's December, and that means some familiar films popping up in cinemas across the country. It's a Wonderful Life, a Christmas staple, is showing throughout ... Read more »| 03 Dec 2012 -
MusicLoops Haunt – Zenith EP
Ostensibly starting out as a dubstep label, with releases by the likes of DZ, Marlow and Scotland's magnificent Akira Kiteshi, Black Acre have evolved into a... Read more »| 03 Dec 2012 -
Film
Code Name: Geronimo - The Hunt for Osama Bin Laden
Airing in the US just days before last month’s election, SEAL Team 6 (as it was then titled) caused a minor outrage, attracting accusations that distri... Read more »| 01 Dec 2012 -
Clubs
DJ Chart: Bollywood Disco with Teamy (Wrong Island)
This month's DJ Chart comes from Wrong Island resident and legendary Glasgow scenester Teamy, who brings us a specialist selection of Bollywood Disco classics! Read more »| 01 Dec 2012 -
ArtThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 30 November
The Twilight Sad stream a never-before-heard track, Massive Attack release rare Terry Callier session, FlyLo's new video references Akira, BYOB taake over the Glue Factory, and The Badger's Weekend Gig Picks! It's today's Bulletin! Read more »| 30 Nov 2012
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Film
Floating Weeds
The rootless beings of the title are a performance troupe in post war Japan, moving perpetually through the country as happy wanderers. Returning to a rural ... Read more »| 30 Nov 2012 -
Film
Gate of Hell
This 1953 Japanese classic is a banquet of visual delights, a tapestry of vibrant colour, which regrettably becomes frayed at the edges. Morito is a mid-rank... Read more »| 30 Nov 2012 -
ArtA Bogan Abroad: Enjoy Now, Think Later
Hailing from Oz, Peter Drew charts his first encounters with the Scottish art scene. This month: Sonic art and horror entertainment Read more »| 29 Nov 2012 -
Music
Purity Ring / Doldrums @ Stereo, 27 Nov
The Canadians have cottoned on to something – if you're going to play electronic instruments, particularly MIDI devices, the possibilities for technica... Read more »| 29 Nov 2012 -
Music
Dirty Three / Zun Zun Egui @ Òran Mór, 25 November
Upstairs at Òran Mór can be a difficult venue in terms of atmosphere: the cavernous spaces of the church tend to absorb energy and create awk... Read more »| 29 Nov 2012 -
Music
Sinkane – MARS
Wiping the slate of less distinctive past releases, Sinkane (Sudanese New Yorker Ahmed Abdullahi Gallab) presents MARS as a re-boot debut – a fresh sta... Read more »| 29 Nov 2012 -
Books
A Christmas Book Guide
No clever title here – this is your basic guide to various books you can buy various people. Nice and simple. Read more »| 29 Nov 2012 -
Art
Sonica: Laser Show @ Glue Factory
Following a four-week on-site residency, audiovisual performance artist Robin Fox brings his candidly titled Laser Show to the Glue Factory’s tank room... Read more »| 28 Nov 2012 -
Music
The Douglas Firs – The Furious Sound
Albums about the superstitious persecution of woman are like buses, it seems. A month after Darren Hayman’s The Violence set the witch trials of 17th&n... Read more »| 28 Nov 2012