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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ComedyWatch Bad Movies with Great Comedians @ CCA, Glasgow
The bloke at the ticket office was smiling tonight as people asked where they could see the bad movie. For every so often a show comes along with an ide... Read more »| 27 May 2015 -
MusicJaakko Eino Kalevi – Jaakko Eino Kalevi
Kalevi’s new self-titled album is a comprehensive introduction to an artist surely destined to become one of synth-pop’s quirky new posterboys &n... Read more »| 27 May 2015 -
FilmThief
One last big job and then he's out for good. Frank (Caan) is a master jewel thief operating under the same illusion as the gangsters, dealers and hitmen of a... Read more »| 27 May 2015 -
MusicWe Came From Wolves – We Came From Wolves
The debut effort from Scottish four-piece We Came From Wolves is a slick and consistently catchy collection of anthemic pop-rock songs written specifically f... Read more »| 27 May 2015 -
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Mates Of State – You're Going To Make It
Connecticut’s favourite husband-wife duo return with a five-song burst of new wave-tinged melodicism, as warm and wonderful as ever. It’s splendi... Read more »| 27 May 2015 -
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Miaoux Miaoux – School of Velocity
“Oh my god. It really is beautiful,” croons Julian Corrie – aka Miaoux Miaoux – on a track named Luxury Discovery. Both the... Read more »| 27 May 2015
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Music
J Fernandez – Many Levels of Laughter
After three EPs, J Fernandez finally comes through with debut full length Many Levels of Laughter – and hasn’t lost any of his DIY eclectici... Read more »| 27 May 2015 -
MusicHidden Door: LoneLady @ King's Stables Road, 22 May
First things first, Hidden Door isn’t as hidden as the would-be detective in you might hope. A stone’s throw from the Grassmarket, the ‘sec... Read more »| 26 May 2015 -
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Blood, Fusion and Student Debt: This Week in Scottish Art
In this week's Scottish art round-up, Dundee's degree show continues, art students in Edinburgh and Glasgow get in on the act with new exhibitions, and there are more talks, events and exhibitions than you can wave a "polystyrene thing" at. Read more »| 26 May 2015 -
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In Pictures: Randolph's Leap, Book Group and The Sons at Nothing Ever Happens Here
Summerhall's gig series continues, Kat Gollock was down the front... Read more »| 26 May 2015 -
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Thee Oh Sees – Mutilator Defeated At Last
Another batch of blast furnace psych from the ever-fertile mind of John Dwyer and co. With the daydream haze of last year’s Drop putting an end to the ... Read more »| 26 May 2015 -
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Hinds / Oscar / Kill Surrrf @ Broadcast, 21 May
Taking point on tonight’s well-rounded bill, Glasgow four-piece Kill Surrrf conjure a balmy heatwave through the power of unruffled songwriting and sou... Read more »| 26 May 2015 -
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Daughn Gibson – Carnation
Carnation is a frustrating record. According to Gibson, it’s marked from his previous releases by a sense of “malign opulence.” He says, &l... Read more »| 26 May 2015 -
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Pity Sex @ Bloc+, Glasgow, 21 May
Cymbal bags and guitar cases strewn about at the audience’s feet, the setup at Bloc’s 12th REPEATER event has all the messy homespun ambience of ... Read more »| 25 May 2015 -
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The Acorn – Vieux Loop
Despite summer being just around the corner, the fourth album from Canada's polite acoustic rockers The Acorn is apt music for hibernating to. All gentle bru... Read more »| 25 May 2015