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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TheatreThe Goat
It seems straightforward. Successful man has sex with goat, calls it love, reveals secret to a best friend: cue meltdown of happy marriage Read more »| 03 May 2010 -
MusicSilver Columns - Yes And Dance
You'll read many reviews of this record emphasising the 2+2=5 surprise of The Pictish Trail and Adem teaming up to produce sleek disco music. In actual fact,... Read more »| 03 May 2010 -
MusicStanley Odd - Oddio
The jury's still out on Scottish hip-hop. It's either a vibrant subculture that doesn't get the attention it deserves, or it's an oddity in itself, a geograp... Read more »| 03 May 2010 -
Theatre
Turbo Bear
Short lunchtime plays offer the chance to experiment: and in these two pieces, the chance to consider Scottish identity Read more »| 01 May 2010 -
Music
The Golden Hour
The Golden Hour is an event that takes place monthly at the Forest Café, combining literature readings, bad jokes, music, funny jokes, dancing and vis... Read more »| 30 Apr 2010 -
Music
Foals - Total Life Forever
Rightly or wrongly, 2008's debut Foals LP Antidotes – while well-received – was oft-described as a sort of cerebral nu-rave (as if a 'smarter Kla... Read more »| 30 Apr 2010
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Theatre
Sexy Circus Sideshow
As part of the London Burlesque Week, The Sexy Circus Sideshow concentrated on those exotic acts that connect the burlesque revival with the dark arts of the freak show Read more »| 30 Apr 2010 -
ArtRadius & Atypical Root: A Skinny Guide
Radius and Atypical Root are two twinned but separate projects united by a desire to provide unusual perspectives on Glasgow and its art in April 2010, alongside Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. The Skinny worked with them to create a guide to distribute around the city of Glasgow during the festival Read more »| 30 Apr 2010 -
Music
Errors vs Faust
In an artist-on-artist interview, Errors' Steev Livingstone grills Faust's own 'Art Errorist' Jean-Hervé Peron as the iconoclastic daddies of Krautrock prepare for a rare Scottish date at The Arches Read more »| 30 Apr 2010 -
Books
Would You Eat Your Cat? by Jeremy Stangroom
This book presents us with several ethical conundrums to get us to think about moral philosophy and how we see the world. The somewhat twee world of ... Read more »| 30 Apr 2010 -
Music
Atari Teenage Riot - Activate
Released to coincide with ATR's reunion tour (a reunion in which Alec Empire is the only original member – although Carl Crack has a good excuse by din... Read more »| 29 Apr 2010 -
Music
Ask Patton: Dillinger Escape Plan, Massive Attack, DoseOne, Portishead, Deftones and Phantom Band submit their questions...
Collaborators, friends and fans from music communities far and wide pitch questions to Ipecac Records boss and Faith No More frontman Mike Patton Read more »| 29 Apr 2010 -
Music
Cibelle - Las Venus Resort Palace Hotel
Leading with a cover of Dr. No theme Underneath the Mango Tree, pop-nut Cibelle shares 007’s cosmopolitan internationalism. Born in Brazil and ... Read more »| 29 Apr 2010 -
Music
Lazer Crystal - MCMLXXX
Lazer Crystal are three electro-futurists who hail from Chicago, and their big thing – in case you hadn’t guessed – is lasers. Boy ... Read more »| 29 Apr 2010 -
Music
The Untouchable: Mike Patton on Mondo Cane and Faith No More's Second Coming
The chameleonic Mike Patton talks to The Skinny about falling in love with classic Italian pop and ponders a future for Faith No More Read more »| 29 Apr 2010