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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MusicPublic Image Ltd @ O2 ABC, Glasgow, 18 October
John Lydon is not a man known for ducking a challenge. The former Johnny Rotten was widely mocked in some quarters for agreeing to front a series of televisi... Read more »| 22 Oct 2013 -
Music
These New Puritans / East India Youth @ Òran Mór, Glasgow, 17 October
Earlier this month, These New Puritans’ Jack Barnett apparently called time on his band’s future touring prospects. “By my calculations thi... Read more »| 22 Oct 2013 -
MusicSpook School / Martha / Plastic Animals @ Henry's Cellar Bar, Edinburgh, 11 October
Rather aptly, Edinburgh oddities the Spook School have returned to the scene of their first ever gig – the tiny sweat-pit that is H... Read more »| 22 Oct 2013 -
MusicIslet / Ubre Blanca / Leafwrist @ Nice 'N' Sleazy, Glasgow, 15 October
Leafwrist's approach to his live set has matured in the few short months since his support slot with Umberto, adding thick slabs of minimal electro beat... Read more »| 22 Oct 2013 -
MusicMachinedrum @ The Deaf Institute, Manchester, 16 October
Wednesday night club events are usually the sole reserve of students and die-hard fans. As such, it's no surprise to find the Oxford Road corridor’s pr... Read more »| 22 Oct 2013 -
Theatre
Handel's Cross @ CCA
As part of Glasgay 2013, Theatre North bring Handel's Cross to the CCA. The play follows one man's fantasy about the famous composer Handel, all of which is ... Read more »| 22 Oct 2013
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Books
Prayer by Philip Kerr
Contrasting human brutality with our ability to rationalise and understand the complexities of a life lived weaving amongst religious belief, Philip Kerr&r... Read more »| 22 Oct 2013 -
Books
Bang Said the Gun
The Bang Said the Gun anthology has been described as a collection for 'people who don’t like poetry.' Indeed those unmoved by gushing sonnets, couplet... Read more »| 22 Oct 2013 -
Books
The Vampyre Family by Andrew McConnell Stott
Halfway through the book, there's a quote from Samuel Johnson: ‘The best advice to authors would be, that they should keep out of the way of one anothe... Read more »| 22 Oct 2013 -
Books
The Eidolon by Libby McGugan
“You’re asking me to sabotage one of the greatest experiments in scientific history?” asks The Eidolon’s narrator, theoretical physic... Read more »| 22 Oct 2013 -
Books
The Girl on The Ferryboat by Angus Peter Campbell
This is a novel evidently written by a poet – the descriptions of life on the Scottish islands are both vivid and beautifully crafted. The anecdotes Ca... Read more »| 22 Oct 2013 -
Books
Double Negative by Ivan Vladislavić
From a hilltop overlooking Johannesburg, Neville Lister and his photographer companion pick three rooftops at random and decide to pay the occupants a visit.... Read more »| 22 Oct 2013 -
Film
The White Dove / Josef Kilián
Before Kes, Czech master František Vláčil's 1960 feature debut The White Dove told of another young boy caring for a prized bird, her... Read more »| 22 Oct 2013 -
Music
Los Campesinos! – No Blues
What are we going to do about Los Campesinos!? 2011's Hello Sadness gave notice of a shift from the ragged polemic of their early work, Gareth David opting l... Read more »| 22 Oct 2013 -
Theatre
Couldn't Care Less @ Traverse
Do not be fooled by the pastel colours and floral patterns on the elaborate set of this production; Couldn’t Care Less unfurls a narrative about Alzhei... Read more »| 21 Oct 2013