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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TheatreQuite A' Right
SDT: NQR or PDG? Read more »| 29 Nov 2010 -
MusicThe Metal Column – December 2010
It's December. The nights have not so much been drawing in as they have been choking us of all life, the weather's miserable and worse yet – it's nearl... Read more »| 29 Nov 2010 -
Music
Live Music Highlights – December 2010
When afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti died in 1997 he left a legacy of musical innovation and political dissent that is quite unique. His son Femi Kuti has since p... Read more »| 29 Nov 2010 -
FilmDecember Film Events
For those who embrace a “bah, humbug” sensibility in December, the GFT in Glasgow is offering two anti-Christmas films: Gremlins on 3 Decemb... Read more »| 29 Nov 2010 -
MusicJoseph Dean Osgood – Rock n' Roll Man
There will always be an audience for the old and familiar – wouldn’t the world be dreadful if everyone chased the witch-house-aqua-crunk-chillwav... Read more »| 29 Nov 2010 -
Music
Atari Teenage Riot @ The Arches, 24 Nov
Alec Empire could hardly have timed the return of Atari Teenage Riot more astutely. Inactive since 2000, the Berliners’ hyper-politicised take on disto... Read more »| 26 Nov 2010
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Music
Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
“Have you lost your mind?" asks Yeezy on Hell Of A Life. "Tell me when you think we’ve crossed the line...” And so Twitter's most dangerous... Read more »| 26 Nov 2010 -
ArtAnother World @ Dean Gallery
More of a way of thinking than a style, Surrealism encompasses sculpture, painting, literature, photography and film. Spanning several countries and evolvin... Read more »| 26 Nov 2010 -
Music
Console – Herself
Somewhere on India’s Goa beach there is a man playing the first tune on this record, nodding his dreadlocked head, and feeling at one with the world; f... Read more »| 26 Nov 2010 -
Music
Various Artists – I'm Here Soundtrack
Spike Jonze’s latest short film I’m Here has brought with it this collection of old and new indie-cool material to soundtrack his urban robotic l... Read more »| 26 Nov 2010 -
Film
Of Gods and Men
A group of monks find the limits of their faith being put to the test in Of Gods and Men, Xavier Beauvois' perceptive and subtly powerful new film. T... Read more »| 26 Nov 2010 -
Theatre
Theatre Venue of the Month: Tramway
Tramway has often been a prophet without honour in its home city. Tucked away on Glasgow's Southside, it is internationally renowned as both a gallery and th... Read more »| 26 Nov 2010 -
Music
Kylie Minoise – Sid Vicious Occult School of Motoring
Where would the world be without acts like Kylie Minoise endeavouring to take the most innocuous of sounds and turn them into sonic weaponry? Undoubtedly in ... Read more »| 25 Nov 2010 -
Music
The Savings and Loan – Today I Need Light
The Savings and Loan aren’t looking for an It’s-a-Wonderful-Life, community-spirit bail-out on their debut – just a stiff drink. As a guest... Read more »| 25 Nov 2010 -
Music
Frank Turner – Rock & Roll EP
Evolving from bitter, acoustic punk – from tracks Thatcher Fucked the Kids and Once We Were Anarchists to the mellowness of the former Million Dead fro... Read more »| 25 Nov 2010