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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MusicKeel 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 -
ArtRSA 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 -
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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 -
FilmMark 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 -
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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 -
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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
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ArtThe 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 -
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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 -
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Nina Persson – Animal Heart
With A Camp having last borne fruit in 2009 and The Cardigans’ recording hiatus ongoing, Nina Persson’s debut solo record qualifies as something ... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
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Temples – Sun Structures
Psychedelic. There, it’s been said. This record is so unmistakably of the genre and of an era that you can’t avoid the word, but Temples’ h... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
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Kristian Harting – Float
Kristian Harting may be well-versed in noise rock and thrash metal, but the Danish singer-songwriter puts the past aside, favouring personal acoustic music o... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
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East India Youth @ Korova, Liverpool, 1 February
When East India Youth’s William Doyle leans nonchalantly against a stack of speakers at Korova, the indifference with which he endures wave after wave ... Read more »| 05 Feb 2014 -
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Film News: Ben Wheatley on Dr. Who, James McAvoy talks Filth, Jesse Eisenberg to play Lex Luthor
A round-up of film news: Sightseers director Ben Wheatley on directing Peter Capaldi as Dr, Who; James Macavoy talks Filth; Jesse Eisenberg cast as Lex Luthor, plus: a look at the big-budget trailers previewed during the Superbowl Read more »| 05 Feb 2014 -
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Katy B – Little Red
A whopping 17 tracks on this, the second album from the Brit School graduate, offers value but, as is increasingly the case with major label releases, puts q... Read more »| 05 Feb 2014 -
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Download a free EP by LAW
Edinburgh-based singer and Young Fathers affiliate Lauren Holt, aka LAW, has been on our radar for some time. This week, she has made her stunning EP Haters & Gangsters available for free download Read more »| 04 Feb 2014