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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MusicWinnebago Deal – Career Suicide
To avoid confusion, I would like to point out that this third full length LP entitled Career Suicide is by punk rock 'n' roll duo Winnebago Deal; not the arg... Read more »| 03 Nov 2010 -
MusicSwans @ The Arches, 25 October
Opening for Swans must be one of the most daunting tasks an artist can face but James Blackshaw takes it calmly; almost too calmly, in fact. His nonplussed a... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
Music
The Proposition: George Michael is the Most Dangerous Man in Rock'n'Roll
George Michael is the single most dangerous man in music. That, by the way, is not just because he might record again. Have you followed this maniac's path ... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
MusicMotorifik – Secret Things
It’s always a disappointment when a band call themselves something like Motorifik, the very syllables of which drip with dirty oil, sweaty leather and ... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
Music
Shipping News – One Less Heartless To Fear
As the band themselves declare, "one helluva lot has happened" to Shipping News since their terrific 2005 album Flies The Field. With founder guitarist Jason... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
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Shugo Tokumaru – Port Entropy
Live, Shugo Tokumaru plies his trade with little more than an acoustic guitar and an effects pedal or two. It’s near impossible to imagine Port Entropy... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010
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MusicEarth – A Bureaucratic Desire For Extracapsular Extraction
This almighty bastard of an album represents the collation of Earth's two early EPs and comes resplendent with that same sense of chilling, north-western nih... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
Books
Surface Detail by Iain M Banks
This is Iain M Banks’ 11th sci-fi novel, and 8th featuring the utopian socialist space society The Culture. The plot revolves around events in ... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
Music
King Cannibal – The Way of the Ninja
A back catalogue 20 years old is fertile ground for someone tasked with assembling a retrospective; given Ninja Tune’s history as an innovator in recor... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
Theatre
Tam Dean Burn: Walking in Circles
One of the highlights of Instal, Tam Dean Burn steps out on an audio journey around Glasgow's Southside Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
Film
A Town Called Panic
Based on a Belgian television series, A Town Called Panic is a deranged stop motion film by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar, creators of the instant... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
Film
Mike Leigh: Bard of Bleakness
Much loved miserablist Mike Leigh discusses his latest film, Another Year, and his forty year filmmaking career Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
Clubs
Brodinski: Last Man Standing
Death Disco turns eight this month with Brodinski donning clown make-up and dishing out the party bags (or your money back) Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
Art
Autopictography: A Study in Gray
Glasgow polymath Alasdair Gray is starting to receive the celebration his work deserves with a new book spanning his career and two exhibitions in the capital. The Skinny popped round his gaff to learn more about his prolific life in art and writing Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
Music
The Cathouse: 20 Years of Blood, Sweat and Beers
Celebrating 20 years as the go-to nightspot for the rock-oriented clubber, Glasgow’s Cathouse staff relive five moments from its colourful history Read more »| 01 Nov 2010