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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FilmGFF 2011: Apnea
In an arresting opening, newly-crowned European swimming champ Dimitris (Sotiris Pastras) reminisces about lost love Elsa (Youlika Skafida), enveloped in the... Read more »| 17 Feb 2011 -
FilmGFF 2011: Celluloid Choreography
The Glasgow Short Film Festival proudly hosts a selection of works by contemporary dancer turned film-maker Miranda Pennell's works Read more »| 17 Feb 2011 -
Film
GFF 2011: A New Dimension
With an ever increasing number of 3D films due for release, Helen Wright discusses its ability to enhance artistic expression Read more »| 17 Feb 2011 -
MusicWounded Knee – Etive Shepherds/Single Malt Symphony
Withhold from Wounded Knee your full attention and you might as well listen to the hum of kitchen appliances, so focus. Both Etive Shepherds and Single Malt ... Read more »| 17 Feb 2011 -
MusicLuxury Car – When I Was Good
Biphonic seems an appropriate label for Luxury Car – partly because brothers John and William Robertson are audibly kindred with label-mates Swimmer On... Read more »| 17 Feb 2011 -
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Six Organs of Admittance – Asleep on the Floodplain
The gradual evolution of Ben Chasny's psych-folk outfit has produced increasingly focused and coherent work, a trend which continues on Asleep on the Floodpl... Read more »| 17 Feb 2011
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Film
GFF 2011: The Devil Has The Best Tunes
We talk to Glasgow DJ Alex Smoke about his new score for Faust Read more »| 17 Feb 2011 -
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GFF 2011: Layers of Ozon
With Potiche selected as GFF's opening gala film, we look at the previous works by French director Francois Ozon Read more »| 17 Feb 2011 -
Music
Allo Darlin' @ Captain's Rest, 28 Jan
On their self-titled debut, musical-magpies Allo Darlin’ emerged thoroughly wrapped up in the cuddly cardigan that is indie-pop, quoting openly (a rhym... Read more »| 17 Feb 2011 -
Music
Fu Manchu @ The Cathouse, 3 Mar
Orange County stoners Fu Manchu will be hitting up our shores in March for another evening of big cars, bigger riffs and huge chemical consumption. Ten album... Read more »| 17 Feb 2011 -
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Anathema @ 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 -
Theatre
Born Again @ Tron Theatre, 2-5 Mar
Flatrate get that old time religion Read more »| 15 Feb 2011 -
Theatre
Wrestling @ 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