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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MusicSix Degrees of Julia Thirteen
Who knew that so much of Glasgow's rich modern musical lineage could be traced back to the constituent parts of just one band? Read more »| 29 Jun 2011 -
Clubs
Clubbing Highlights – July
Fed up of the long hours and vitamin D deficiency inherent in its proselytising ways, the Clubbing Highlights column has made a devastating concession to 'fu... Read more »| 29 Jun 2011 -
MusicA Midsummer Day's Dream @ The Tramway, 25 June
Once again, the Tramway (and Optimo) step up to the plate and boldly go in directions that seldom few have the balls to with A Midsummer Day’s Dream, a... Read more »| 29 Jun 2011 -
Music
Washed Out – Within and Without
Ernest Greene, alias Washed Out, released his debut EP Life of Leisure in 2009, the Georgia-based talent promptly finding favour with blogging hipsters all o... Read more »| 28 Jun 2011 -
Books
Top Gear Drivers' Handbook by Richard Porter
Following on from Haynes, the Car Manual publisher who branched out into novelty books – The Star Trek based U.S.S Enterprise Manual, Dad Manua... Read more »| 28 Jun 2011 -
Clubs
Witness presents: Sinden @ Sneaky Pete's, 13 July
It would seem that the Witness crew can't get enough of Grizzly artists, having booked Brenmar last month for a sweaty packed out show, this month sees head ... Read more »| 28 Jun 2011
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Clubs
T in the Park 2011 – The Dancing
The time is approaching when thousands across Scotland will dust down their bucket hats, string up their acoustic guitars and try to track down that tent the... Read more »| 28 Jun 2011 -
MusicCrystal Antlers – Two Way Mirror
After a favourably received debut album and EP it was uncertain as to whether these Californian acid-revivalists could ever best it. But, in attempting to do... Read more »| 28 Jun 2011 -
Music
Hot Ticket of the Month: Godspeed You! Black Emperor @ Barrowland, 22 July
The downside of a band achieving greatness is most usually to be found in the legions of mediocre imitators that spring up in their wake. Yet despite the so-... Read more »| 28 Jun 2011 -
Film
July Film Highlights
On 25 July the Filmhouse in Edinburgh is offering a rare chance to see notorious 1932 film Freaks. The director Tod Browning (Dracula), inspired by his own c... Read more »| 28 Jun 2011 -
MusicSteve Mason & Dennis Bovell – Ghosts Outside
For those baffled by seemingly endless bass culture sub-genres (hello UK post dub-step), Steve Mason’s collaboration with Dennis Bovell is refreshingly... Read more »| 27 Jun 2011 -
Art
British Art Show 7: It’s Time
The British Art Show is sprawling across Glasgow with more art than you can shake a stick at. The Skinny finds it operates across time as well as space Read more »| 27 Jun 2011 -
Music
Benjamin Francis Leftwich – Last Smoke Before the Snowstorm
Two warmly-received EPs aside, Benjamin Francis Leftwich is best known for an appearance on Dermot O’Leary’s Saturday Sessions, the radio slot re... Read more »| 27 Jun 2011 -
Books
This is Not the End of the Book, by Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carriere
There have been too many hand-wringing discussions on the future of the book. This is not one of them. Author and academic Umberto Eco and his friend... Read more »| 27 Jun 2011 -
Music
Wolf Gang – Suego Faults
Suego Faults, the debut from Max McElligott's Wolf Gang outfit, was produced by Dave Fridmann (he of Mercury Rev and Flaming Lips fame), and it sounds like i... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011