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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FilmLife During Wartime: Kevin Macdonald on How I Live Now
Kevin Macdonald’s latest fiction film is a darkly romantic drama about a group of young people surviving in war-torn Britain. The Touching The Void director talks about working with his young cast and imagining wartime from an askance teen perspective Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
MusicHero Worship: Chino Moreno salutes Mogwai
No stranger to their tinnitus inducing might, Chino Moreno of Deftones, ††† and Palms tips his bunnet to our February cover stars and claims they have unfinished business Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
Music
Robbie Lesiuk – Nobody's Listening
Falkirk artist Robbie Lesiuk is best known as a former member of Y'all Is Fantasy Island, and for his ongoing collaborations with friend and former bandmate ... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
Music
Listen: Download two free compilations, featuring S-Type and Miaoux Miaoux
Download two free compilations featuring leading lights of the Glasgow electronic music scene, LuckyMe's S-Type, and Miaoux Miaoux Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
MusicTomorrow We Sail – For Those Who Caught the Sun in Flight
Gizeh Records is a paragon of consistency, not only in terms of the quality of its output but in the overlaps and similarities between those on its roster. W... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
MusicA.R.C. Soundtracks – Archive: Volume One
Following in the footsteps of electronic artists like The Haxan Cloak and Raime, and the magisterial post-rock of Godspeed You! Black Emperor as closely as A... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014
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MusicPoemss – Poemss
Showing a different side of Planet Mu mainstay Aaron Funk, better known as Venetian Snares, this collaboration with Toronto producer and vocalist Joanne Poll... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
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Keel Her – Keel Her
While this self-titled collection is officially Keel Her’s debut album, Rose Keeler-Schäffeler is no debutant. Since 2011, the Brighton-based song... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
Art
RSA New Contemporaries 2014: The Shock of the New
A solid must-see in Scotland’s contemporary art calendar, RSA New Contemporaries serves up a fresh slice of Zeitgeist from Scotland’s most talented emergent artists, and its sixth annual incarnation looks set to be the most competitive yet Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
Music
DMX to fight George Zimmerman?
In this week's weirdest news story, it emerges that rapper DMX will fight the acquitted killer of Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
Film
Mark Cousins and Filmhouse tour the UK with Cinema of Childhood season
Edinburgh's Filmhouse and documentary maker Mark Cousins present a very special season exploring the history of children in film, touring the UK from April Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
Music
Lo-Fang – Blue Film
The debut album by LA's Matthew Hemerlein, aka Lo-Fang, sits comfortably alongside the neo-soul of James Blake, the spectral, ethereal hip-hop/R 'n' B of Twi... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
Music
Let's Wrestle – Let's Wrestle
After two full doses of rewardingly ramshackle indie-rock (2009’s In the Court of the Wrestling Let’s and 2011’s Nursing Home), Let’s... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
Art
The Skinny Showcase: Josephine Hicks
Josephine Hicks Straddling the brackets of design, illustration and contemporary print, Liverpool-based artist Josephine Hicks has been honing her craft thr... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
Art
Edward Chell: Soft Estate @ The Bluecoat, Liverpool, until 23 Feb
Edward Chell is an artist who can often be seen in a high-visibility jacket and hard hat exploring the verges of many major roads around the UK. Althoug... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014