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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MusicThe Duke Spirit @ Deaf Institute, 23 Mar
Four years since they last pitched up round here, no new material to promote, and for the first time in living memory touts ply their greasy wares outside De... Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
ArtStewart Home: The Unquotable Interview
The esoterically erudite Stewart Home walks us through the influences for his upcoming Glasgow International exhibition Re-Enter the Dragon, at Queens Park Railway Club. Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
MusicColin Stetson – SORROW
Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 is a masterpiece of minimalism. It makes sense, then, that a fellow master of the minimal – avant-garde saxo... Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
MusicParquet Courts – Human Performance
After last year’s wilfully difficult Monastic Living EP, you’d be forgiven for expecting Parquet Courts’ latest full-length album to take a... Read more »| 29 Mar 2016 -
ArtThis Week in Scottish Art: 29 March - 4 April
This week, catch Dovecot Gallery's dancing carpet ballet, the Rhubaba choir, and a chance to read through Kevin Harman's legal correspondence after smashing Collective Gallery's window six years ago. Read more »| 29 Mar 2016 -
Music
Frightened Rabbit – Painting of a Panic Attack
Give or take a month, it’s been ten years since Frightened Rabbit put out the first run of Sing the Greys on the tiny Hits the Fan label. It seems pert... Read more »| 29 Mar 2016
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Music
September Girls – Age of Indignation
2014's Cursing the Sea did just enough to flag the potential of this Dublin five piece: their shadowy debut was sharply styled but that winning aesthetic alo... Read more »| 28 Mar 2016 -
Music
Shonen Knife – Adventure
Shonen Knife, by strength of statistics alone, have earned their legendary status ten times over. The revolutionary Osaka punk band are celebrating their 35t... Read more »| 28 Mar 2016 -
Clubs
Moxie on NTS Radio and On Loop
Already firmly established in clubs and on the airwaves, NTS Radio resident Moxie reveals plans for a label, ahead of DJ slots across Scotland Read more »| 26 Mar 2016 -
Music
New Albums This Week: The Thermals, Bob Mould
Our round-up of the best new music released this week, including the return of Hutch Harris and The Thermals, and solo LP number eleven from Hüsker Dü's Bob Mould. Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
Film
Sebastian Schipper on single-shot crime flick Victoria
Sebastian Schipper has made a thrilling single-shot crime odyssey set in Berlin. Unfortunately, few believed he pulled it off without hidden edits. It's time to set the record straight Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
Music
Protomartyr on The Agent Intellect
"We think that we’re living in the future and we know what’s going on, but we really don’t” – Joe Casey Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
Music
The Field – The Follower
Swedish producer Axel Willner’s 2011 album title, Looping State of Mind, perhaps sums up his music as The Field better than anything. Referencing ... Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
Comedy
Dane Baptiste on Unreasonable Doubts and Sunny D
A nationwide tour and a self-penned sitcom would go right to some comedians' heads. Not so for Dane Baptiste, who tells us that success is a mix of roots, determination and a lucky vagina. Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
Music
Mogwai – Atomic
Upon motive alone, this is a poignant release – a reworked version of the original soundtrack created for Belfast-born director Mark Cousins’ doc... Read more »| 25 Mar 2016