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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TheatreA Theatre Critic's View: Escaping State Funding
Arts funding is under attack: is there an alternative way to get performance on the stage? Read more »| 04 May 2011 -
Art
Narcissus Reflected @ Fruitmarket Gallery
When Narcissus gazed upon his reflection in a pool of water he fell in love. Unable to embrace this watery heart-throb, he pined away and became immortalised... Read more »| 04 May 2011 -
BooksReleasing the Valve
Valve is a new literary journal, and an intriguing experiment. The experiment part is that it’s been created by students of a Strathclyde University class aimed at forming a journal for new writing. Got that? Read more »| 04 May 2011 -
Art
Jeremy Millar @ CCA
The first piece encountered in Jeremy Millar’s current show, Resemblances, Sympathies and Other Acts, is one that hauntingly resonates after viewing. C... Read more »| 04 May 2011 -
Music
Wild Beasts: "We don't have to scream from the top of our lungs anymore"
With the follow-up to their Mercury-nominated Two Dancers due to drop any day, Wild Beasts' Hayden Thorpe talks progress, success, and Bono's big yap Read more »| 03 May 2011 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen – May 2011
With the obvious exception of Beady Eye, this month’s singles pile gets a shed more lovin’ thrown at it than by our local rock stars of recent times. Well, summer time is on the way after all, a natural aphrodisiac as the Fresh Prince once claimed Read more »| 03 May 2011
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FilmInsidious
Inadvertently inventing torture-porn can’t be the proudest moment in the careers of James Wan and Leigh Whannell, respectively the director and writer ... Read more »| 03 May 2011 -
FilmJoe Cornish: "I bullied my way in front of the camera, but in truth I was always much happier behind it”
Joe Cornish swaps Song Wars and Star Wars spoofs for high-octane action and political commentary in his blistering directorial debut Attack the Block Read more »| 03 May 2011 -
Music
Citizens – Try Harder EP
Citizens have at last captured the sheer raw aggression of their live shows Read more »| 03 May 2011 -
Music
Efrim Menuck – Plays "High Gospel"
As a founding member of both Godspeed You! Black Emperor and A Silver Mount Zion (under its many varied monickers) Efrim Menuck has spent 15 years as a centr... Read more »| 03 May 2011 -
Music
Enablers – Blown Realm and Stalled Explosions
Enablers’ mélange of stream-of-consciousness poetry and juddering math-rock was never going to make them stadium-fillers, but there was always s... Read more »| 03 May 2011 -
Music
Everything's Getting Older: a track by track guide
To celebrate the imminent release of his collaboration with musical polymath Bill Wells, fellow Falkirk troubadour Aidan Moffat introduces Everything's Getting Older Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
Music
That Fucking Tank @ 13th Note, 24 April
The proto-industrial clamour of Rollor has plenty of strengths, like a drum machine that’ll make the fillings in your teeth rattle, and Matt Harris&rsq... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
Film
Reel Talk: Film distributors love the smell of easy money in the morning
Everyone loves 70s American cinema, right? The scattershot chaos of Altman, the swaggering rock and roll of Scorsese, those DePalma fever dreams; a golden ag... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
Music
Austra – Feel It Break
With a tense phantom-like clasp, Katie Stelmanis’ icy vocals disarm the listener, seeping under one’s skin like anaesthetic. Her operatic procliv... Read more »| 02 May 2011