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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TheatreFlatties
Flatrate theatre group have been entertaining Glasgow audiences with one aim: “to work harder, faster and more intelligently than any other company out there.” Read more »| 04 Feb 2010 -
Music
Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago
With six full albums as well as a litter of other smaller efforts now safely in the bag, Shearwater's ability to write consistently excellent, affecting mode... Read more »| 03 Feb 2010 -
MusicShearwater: Cosmic Castaways
Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg could simply have said "the new record's about islands, sounds a bit like Talk Talk." But oh no, he went cosmic on our ass. Read more »| 03 Feb 2010 -
MusicDown with the Prophets: The John Knox Sex Club interviewed
Having played enviable support slots and crossover gigs in clubs and galleries throughout their 18 months of existence, The John Knox Sex Club's helter-skelter art rock has proven a love/hate affair Read more »| 03 Feb 2010 -
MusicErrors: Incubate to Accumulate
It’s not something, but it is like, a reality TV drugs show. Errors’ last man through the door, James Hamilton, reveals the ‘pitch’ behind new album Come Down With Me. Read more »| 03 Feb 2010 -
Music
Lonelady - Nerve Up
Another week, another 80s-indebted British female solo singer? Keep reading – this one’s different. She doesn’t look like she was assembled... Read more »| 03 Feb 2010
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Art
Martin Creed @ The Common Guild
Martin Creed is to have his first ever solo exhibition in Scotland. Remarkable when you consider he spent his childhood in Glasgow before moving to London to... Read more »| 03 Feb 2010 -
Music
Two Man Army: Massive Attack return with Heligoland
Stepping back into the limelight with their much anticipated fifth full-length album this month, Robert Del Naja and Grant Marshall discuss the careful resurrection of Massive Attack Read more »| 02 Feb 2010 -
Music
Nikaido Kazumi and Shugo Tokumaru with The National Jazz Trio of Scotland @ Classic Grand, 28 Jan
Presided over by the Hitchcockian Bill Wells, Celtic Connections tonight invites its first Japanese contributors to collaborate with The National Jazz Trio o... Read more »| 02 Feb 2010 -
Music
Rock Action Around the Clock
Your musical education doesn't end at Errors. Here we present three more choice signings from the disparate school of Rock Action for your delectation. Why send the kids anywhere else? Read more »| 02 Feb 2010 -
Music
Efterklang - Magic Chairs
Last year’s Performing Parades captured Efterklang’s enchanting collaboration with the Danish National Chamber Orchestra and effectively encapsul... Read more »| 02 Feb 2010 -
Clubs
DJ Chart: Bigfoot's Teaparty
Faux Pas, Redux and Marma Man – aka the fellows behind one of last year's most successful nights – offer up their favourite tracks. Read more »| 02 Feb 2010 -
Music
A Muso's Top 10: Queens of the Stone Age
Last issue we got to know Them Crooked Vultures and learned all about their extensive touring plans for the year - very good. But what the hell happened to J... Read more »| 02 Feb 2010 -
Film
The Stranger (Agantuk)
From 1991, Satyajit Ray directed this, his final film, from inside an oxygen tent. It doesn’t show. Based on one of his own short stories, it may not b... Read more »| 02 Feb 2010 -
Books
"I Don't Feel Like a Natural..."
Dan Rhodes might not feel gifted, but now that his new novel is here, it's his readers who'll be the judge... Read more »| 02 Feb 2010