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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MusicLive 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 -
MusicThe Metal Column – October 2011
Metal's most impressive asset has always been the vast range of styles, talents and personalities that lie under that simple catch-all term. It caters for al... Read more »| 30 Sep 2011 -
Music
Hot Ticket of the Month: The Horrors @ The Liquid Room, 19 Oct
Right now, they're a band you can't afford to miss Read more »| 30 Sep 2011 -
ComedyCraig Campbell: "Almost anyone can write a joke"
Following a tour with Frankie Boyle and his most successful Edinburgh Fringe to date, Canadian Craig Campbell is in the ascendancy Read more »| 30 Sep 2011 -
Music
Ut / Divorce / North American War @ Stereo, 28 September
It seems fitting that Ut’s first gig in 21 years sees support from two local acts influenced, in different ways, by the No Wave scene from which the Ne... Read more »| 30 Sep 2011 -
MusicOtherpeople – Memory Gag EP
There is one hell of a lot of pop music in the world but sadly not much of it has any nutritious value. Talking Heads are history, Weezer lost the plot and B... Read more »| 30 Sep 2011
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Film
October Film Highlights
As the trees begin to turn various shades of red, so too do our cinema screens with brains, intestines and blood being gratuitously splattered as horror fans... Read more »| 30 Sep 2011 -
Music
Echo and the Bunnymen @ Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 28 September
Despite the balmy Indian summer heat, Ian McCulloch sticks with tradition tonight, taking to the stage wrapped in his trademark winter coat. A circular fan p... Read more »| 30 Sep 2011 -
Comedy
X-FACTOR 2011: Because apparently I hate my brain
Kelly Rowland exclaims excitedly that "There are some pretty amazing acts coming out of Britain right now," which, strictly speaking, is true if by ‘ac... Read more »| 30 Sep 2011 -
Film
The Church of Kevin Smith
The unconventional release of Kevin Smith's new film Red State has caused a bit of a brouhaha stateside. We see what all the fuss is about Read more »| 29 Sep 2011 -
Music
Pete and the Pirates @ Captain's Rest, 26 September
With seasoned ex-members of Morning Runner at the helm, Glass’s polish garners at least one breathless endorsement tonight (“They blew my mind!&n... Read more »| 29 Sep 2011 -
Music
Jeffrey Lewis – A Turn In The Dream-Songs
Anti-folk figure Jeffrey Lewis is known for his tendency to divide listeners. He addresses this point directly in the song Cult Boyfriend, a highlight on thi... Read more »| 29 Sep 2011 -
Film
All Night Horror Madness 3!
Matt Palmer brings another slice of old-school horror to the Cameo with the third All Night Horror Madness! Read more »| 29 Sep 2011 -
Music
Loch Lomond – Little Me Will Start A Storm
Every Scottish review of this record will doubtlessly refer to the recognisable moniker of this sextet from Portland, Oregon, but with this, their first rele... Read more »| 29 Sep 2011 -
Music
Shonen Knife – Osaka Ramones
Cover albums often carry an air of redundancy, beckoning the question: why bother? For punk-pop trio Shonen Knife, the motivation is to mark their 30th... Read more »| 29 Sep 2011