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Top Ten Events 20-26 Sep: Neu! Reekie!, James Yorkston + Pecha Kucha
Top Ten Events 20-26 Sep: Neu! Reekie! | James Yorkston | + Pecha Kucha THE W... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
Music
Mercury Rising: SOAK talks from Hong Kong
A handwritten note dated 29/11/15 graces one side of Bridie Monds-Watson’s notebook. The neat, capped-up entry details her maiden adventures in Asia. &... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Music
Belle & Sebastian discuss their electronic renaissance
It’s a sunny morning in Glasgow, and almost all of hometown indie icons Belle & Sebastian are present and correct for breakfast. Stuart Murdoch, Sa... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
Music
T in the Park 2010 – Saturday
The man responsible for placing Hacienda on the international scene as a home of forward-thinking music opens the Saturday of the Slam Tent in suitable style... Read more »| Updated almost 14 years ago -
Music
of Montreal: Wild Mood Swings
Soundcheck isn’t going well for psychedelic popsters-cum-performance artists of Montreal. Kevin Barnes, mastermind of the oft-brilliant group, calls of... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
Music
Sons and Daughters: “It’s the happy clappy bands that are the most fucked up"
Glam Sons and Daughters frontwoman Adele Bethel is pondering what kind of fans her band’s new record is likely to attract. She leans forward, fake purp... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
Festivals
Benjamin Clementine on his ambitious new album
Benjamin Clementine is a promoter’s dream and he knows it. Although it’s two years since the avant-garde singer and pianist picked up the Mercury... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Film
Greg McHugh: Tank Commander
After winning a Scottish BAFTA for Gary's War, Greg McHugh – the man we all know as Gary: Tank Commander – has gone on to write and star in two s... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
Comedy
Comedians' Letters: Dear Santa...
Vladimir McTavish Dear Santa, For Christmas this year, can I have a robot which I can programme to do all the jobs I do not like doing, e.g. writing letter... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
Comedy
Katherine Ryan interview: Comedy is a Conversation
Few comedians’ material is on the same level of high-calibre analysis and theme-spotting prowess as Katherine Ryan. Variously described as icy, wa... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
Music
The Last Word: Al Jourgensen waves goodbye to Ministry
“My compound has been taken over by a thug gang of asshole raccoons,” Al Jourgensen reports on the morning of our interview. Armed with a dose of... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
Festivals
Kids roundup
There are almost a hundred kids shows to choose from at the Fringe this year, from small amateur productions to ambitious, boundary-pushing shows from top-fl... Read more »| Updated almost 14 years ago -
Comedy
Daniel Piper's Poetry Slam World Cup Diary
Last week I struck up a conversation with a stranger on a train because people don’t talk enough these days. I had skilfully deduced that we’d bo... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Music
Savages' Jehnny Beth on their fearless debut
If you believe that true stylistic originality in music currently lies dormant or, worse, deceased, then to find real resonance you look to the qualities of ... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
Music
Insect World: The Bug meets Earth's Dylan Carlson
“I remember hearing Earth 2 around the time of release, and just thinking, ‘What the fuck is this?’ I had no idea,” crackles Kevin Ma... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
Comedy
Jen Kirkman interview: 'Not just me, all women'
On the release of her second book, I Know What I'm Doing – And Other Lies I Tell Myself, Jen Kirkman reveals a reverence for literary works which cause... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
Music
Dropping the Guilt: Catholic Action interviewed
In the niche world of Glaswegian drummers from acclaimed bands who later branched out to become frontmen of their own groups, it’s too easy to draw par... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
Music
The Life We Know: Django Django's Dave Maclean interviewed
The cover art for Django Django’s new album Born Under Saturn is of a statue named The Sluggard. Stretching his arms, yawning wide, with his bronzed ge... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
Books
Fighting Prejudice on the Page: Women in Comics
A recent exhibition at London’s House of Illustration celebrated and showcased Comix Creatrix, with art from around the world showing women’s inv... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
Music
New Blood: Die Hard
Glasgow’s newest anomaly, Die Hard – comprised simply of Adam, Craig and Ryan – meet us under the shadow of Monorail’s formidably ecl... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
Music
Fruit Tree Foundation: A New Branch
At a time of year when other trees are shutting down shop for the long winter ahead, The Fruit Tree Foundation, an independent project which aims to highligh... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
Music
Women in Music: Scotland’s Shifting Music Scene
The Skinny meets Sharleen Spiteri on the morning of Texas' ninth album drop. Over a cuppa outside Facebook’s London headquarters, where the band i... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
Comedy
David Hasselhoff: "Do you guys still like Runrig?"
When The Skinny contacted David Hasselhoff to arrange an interview about his upcoming show in the Festival, no one could have ever imagined how it would all ... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
Comedy
David Cross interview: Making America Great Again!
You may know him as Tobias Fünke from Arrested Development or for his work with Better Call Saul's Bob Odenkirk, but how well do you know David Cross as... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
Music
Stag & Dagger 2012: Glasgow
The annual Stag & Dagger Festival is a delightfully chimeric beast: half music festival-cum-gig marathon and half pub crawl, it has firmly established it... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
Travel
The Zurich Lowdown
Leave your preconceptions at the door; Zurich's reputation for finance and food may precede it but it has much more to offer. Berlin may be celebrated for it... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
Books
Tragedy & Triumph: Ali Eskandarian’s Golden Years
Oscar Van Gelderen – ‘the publisher with the golden nose’ – was also editor of Ali Eskandarian's modern beat novel Golden Y... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Festivals
Des Dillon Goes Eclectic
Des Dillon is probably best known as the author of several acclaimed novels, starting with Me and Ma Gal back in 1995. But, not content with simply writing n... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
Film
Girls Behaving Badly: Desiree Akhavan on Appropriate Behaviour
“I find your anger incredibly sexy – I hate so many things too,” Shirin (Desiree Akhavan) deadpans when first meeting her soon-to-be girlfr... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
Festivals
Bryony Kimmings: Fake It 'til You Make It
"I don’t write fake stories for fake people to perform in fake kitchens," says performance maker Bryony Kimmings, calling The Skinny on her drive into ... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago