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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FilmLove & Friendship
Kate Beckinsale shines in Whit Stillman's delightful Jane Austen adaptation Read more »| 26 Feb 2016 -
FilmAmerican Dreamer
Maybe counter-culture hero Dennis Hopper was full of shit all along... Read more »| 26 Feb 2016 -
Music
Adam Stafford – Taser Revelations
Taser Revelations promises shock and awe in its title, and delivers on the latter. After 2013’s subtly transformational Imaginary Walls Collapse, Adam ... Read more »| 26 Feb 2016 -
MusicSchool of Seven Bells – SVIIB
When Alejandra Deheza and Benjamin Curtis started work on School of Seven Bells’ fourth album in the summer of 2012, they definitely had no thought tha... Read more »| 26 Feb 2016 -
Music
Underworld – Barbara Barbara We Face a Shining Future
Underworld’s first album in six years starts with what could arguably be described as their biggest banger since Beaucoup Fish's Kittens from 1999. I E... Read more »| 26 Feb 2016 -
FilmFive to see at GFF, 26 Feb: Top Gun & more
A day of horror movies (FrightFest), artists' films (Laurie Anderson’s Heart of a Dog, Ben Rivers' The Sky Trembles...) and bombastic 80s homoerotica&n... Read more »| 26 Feb 2016
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Music
James – Girl at the End of the World
James enter their fourth decade with at least a sliver of their original, dissident character intact. Girl at the End of the World is, on one level, mor... Read more »| 26 Feb 2016 -
Film
Deniz Gamze Ergüven on Mustang
Deniz Gamze Ergüven ruffles feathers with her spiky coming-of-age tale following five young girls who are demonised in a remote Turkish village. She discusses the controversy Read more »| 26 Feb 2016 -
Books
Irvine Welsh & Robert Carlyle set for Edinburgh Q&A
Irvine Welsh will launch his new novel The Blade Artist in conversation with Robert Carlyle at an event in Edinburgh in April. The Blade Artist reprises the... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
Music
Matthew Bourne – Moogmemory
The improvisational pianist, composer and winner of 2001's Perrier Jazz Award takes a step aside from his multiple collaborative projects to immerse himself ... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
Music
Mugstar – Magnetic Seasons
Heavyweight psychedelic Liverpudlians Mugstar return with a record that takes tripped-out space rock to its disorienting maximum. Exclusively instrumental (a... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
Music
Richard J Birkin – Vigils
Inspired by river mist and Murakami, and carrying echoes of Nils Frahm and Max Richter’s Sleep, sound artist/composer Birkin’s new work is behold... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
Music
Wintersleep – The Great Detachment
Now a decade and a half into their career, the typically dependable Canadian rockers return with their first LP since 2012's Hello Hum. Produced by Tony... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
Music
M. Ward – More Rain
If you’re scanning these pages for a record your granny might be into, this is the one. Also known for his work alongside Zooey Deschanel as the other ... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
Music
Låpsley – Long Way Home
Despite making her name, initially, with spectral, minimalist bedroom productions, Liverpudlian artist Låpsley explores new territory on her debut Long... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016