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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MusicVarious Artists – Some Songs Side-By-Side
Jointly assembled by a trio of labels, with 22 tracks across four sides of vinyl and artwork from eight different artists, this endeavour is evidently more... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
MusicMartin Rossiter – The Defenestration of St Martin
Eight years since the curtain came down on Gene, Martin Rossiter has lost none of his earnestness or theatricality. Grandly opening the grandly titled The ... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
MusicWaves of Fury – Thirst
It doesn’t take long to get a handle on Waves of Fury. A few seconds of distorted piano ease you in to opener Death of a Vampire, then BAM! – a ... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
Film
Polisse
A vérité-style drama based on the daily work of Paris’s ‘Brigade de protection des mineurs,’ Polisse’s treatment o... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
Music
Franz Ferdinand @ Mono, 16 November
Ten years ago, a former Mexican restaurant located beneath a disused railway line was turned into Glasgow’s newest live venue. Mono was the vision of C... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
Film
Sightseers
Ben Wheatley’s absurdist Sightseers plays out like a trainspotters' Badlands. There's great wit at play as we follow simmering sociopath Chris and... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012
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Music
Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra – Towards Other Worlds
The second LP from Leeds’ Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra continues where their self-titled 2010 debut left off; the nine-piece’s musical ancestry rem... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
Music
The Scantharies – The Scantharies
On paper, The Scantharies is a somewhat eccentric project: Andy Dragazis, an Anglo-Greek songwriter, set out to create a greatest hits compilation for an i... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
ArtThe Turner Prize 2012
Back in Tate Britain this year after its sojourn to the Baltic, the Turner Prize features Spartacus Chetwynd, Luke Fowler, Paul Noble and Elizabeth Price Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
Art
Joep Van Liefland @ Duchy Gallery
In the Michel Gondry film Be Kind Rewind, a magnetised Jack Black accidentally erases all the tapes in Mos Def's video store. In a harebrained attempt to con... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
MusicDuglas T. Stewart on what it means to be a BMX Bandit
Scottish indie legend Duglas T. Stewart speaks about his 26 year career as frontman of BMX Bandits, their conceptual new LP and the film about the band Kurt Cobain wanted to join Read more »| 23 Nov 2012 -
Film
End of Watch
Writer/director David Ayer returns to his well-worn law enforcement stomping ground with End of Watch, a foul-mouthed, boneheaded and really quite unpleasant... Read more »| 23 Nov 2012 -
Film
Laurence Anyways
Xavier Dolan certainly isn't lacking in confidence. Fortunately, he has the talent to match it. The young director's third feature, Laurence Anyways, ... Read more »| 23 Nov 2012 -
Music
BEAK> / Thought Forms @ Stereo, 17 November
Fellow Invada signings Thought Forms kick off proceedings with a distortion and reverb-drenched squall of grungy, post-rock noise. With their dual guitars an... Read more »| 22 Nov 2012 -
Comedy
Rob Rouse: Opinionated with Facts
Rob Rouse marks the birth of his second child with a show that's "utterly unsuitable for children," coming to The Stand in Edinburgh and Glasgow Read more »| 22 Nov 2012