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 2012: Weimarvellous Preview
A weekend of cabaret, Weimer-era Germany style. Read more »| 17 Feb 2012 -
MusicPleasure Palaces: Errors
In the conclusion of Errors' five-part series on musicians' spaces in Glasgow, Steev Livingstone talks to, er, Steev Livingstone about making records in his bandmate's flat Read more »| 17 Feb 2012 -
FilmGFF 2012: Red Dog
Red Dog, based on Nancy Gillespie’s book of the same name charting the impact of a legendary mutt on the lives of assorted roughnecks in a Western Aust... Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Gerhard Richter Painting
With a career spanning five decades and the accolade 'one of the greatest living painters', Gerhard Richter – as might be expected – has surpasse... Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
FilmGFF 2012: On the Ice
Writer/director Andrew Okpeaha MacLean extrapolates the premise of his 2008 short of the same name – a murder and the moral dilemma the reporting or co... Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
MusicPleasure Palaces: Jamie Grier
Steev Livingstone talks to The Glue Factory's resident live engineer Jamie Grier in the fourth part of Errors' series on musicians' spaces Read more »| 16 Feb 2012
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Music
GZA/Hector Bizerk @ The Arches, 13 February
The Arches is already near capacity, with a crowd in boisterous mood when Hector Bizerk take to the stage. It's the kind of environment where many support ac... Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
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Justice @ O2 Academy, 12 February
A brightly lit cross, two French guys whose haircuts bob like violent metronomes, and faux-Marshall amps that double as strobes piercing an otherwise Spartan... Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: High Places interview
Glasgow Music and Film Festival kicks off in grand style with a performance from electro-pop duo High Places, a band whose work embodies GMFF's celebration of both music and image Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
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Pleasure Palaces: Mother Ganga
In the third installment of Errors' 'Pleasure Palaces' series on creative spaces, Mother Ganga's Lewis Cook tells how he gets the joss sticks out round his girlfriends flat Read more »| 15 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Reclaiming Mumblecore
Is there any sub-genre more misunderstood than mumblecore? With director Lynn Shelton delivering, with Your Sister's Sister, another film gem that fits the mumblecore M.O., we've decided to reclaim this much maligned moniker Read more »| 15 Feb 2012 -
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In Pictures: Frightened Rabbit / We Are Augustines / Fatherson @ HMV Picture House, 10 February
In Pictures: Frightened Rabbit / We Are Augustines / Fatherson @ HMV Picture House, 10 February This sold out leg of HMV's 'Next Big Thing' showcase brought... Read more »| 15 Feb 2012 -
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Pleasure Palaces: Remember Remember
Part two of Errors' 'Pleasure Palaces' series finds Remember Remember's Graeme Ronald feeling like the janny at the old primary school his band uses for rehearsals Read more »| 15 Feb 2012 -
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GFF 2012: Terri
Like its eponymous protagonist, Terri sits awkwardly outside mainstream expectations, but is all the more appealing for it. The film opens with fifteen year ... Read more »| 15 Feb 2012 -
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Pleasure Palaces: The Phantom Band
In the first part of Errors' 'Pleasure Palaces' series, The Phantom Band's Andy Wake tells Steev Livingstone about the space they make music in Read more »| 15 Feb 2012