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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MusicBlack Yaya – Black Yaya
Black Yaya is the third incarnation of musician David Ivar. You might remember him as half of eccentric duo Herman Dune, but Ivar’s taken some time out... Read more »| 24 Feb 2015 -
Music
Evans the Death – Expect Delays
The classic indie pop juggernaut gathers pace. Evans the Death share lineage with a host of C86-influenced acts, most of whom give the lie to the notion that... Read more »| 24 Feb 2015 -
MusicKarin Park – Apocalypse Pop
Karin Park, Norwegian queen of goth-pop, returns darker than ever – as the menacing title of new album Apocalypse Pop attests. But although Park p... Read more »| 24 Feb 2015 -
MusicPurity Ring – Another Eternity
Album artwork can speak a thousand words. Take the sleeve to debut Shrines, an eerie, dark cartoon: girl embraces sheep, ghostly hands paw at floating lungs.... Read more »| 24 Feb 2015 -
FilmPictures of the Old World
Dušan Hanák’s award-winning documentary, available with English subtitles for the first time, examines the lives of elderly villagers in ... Read more »| 23 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Wake in Fright
Ted Kotcheff would go on to chalk up major hits with the likes of First Blood and Weekend at Bernie's, but it's this rarely seen gem from 1971 that stands as... Read more »| 23 Feb 2015
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Wild River
Elia Kazan didn’t want Montgomery Clift for Wild River – even delaying in the hope of luring Brando – but the troubled star gives a mo... Read more »| 23 Feb 2015 -
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Dreaming Bigger, Screaming Louder: Xavier Dolan on Mommy
Québécois firecracker Xavier Dolan says he sees cinema as revenge against the mundanities of everyday life. With his brilliant new melodrama Mommy, that revenge is served piping hot Read more »| 22 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Stray Dog
Ronnie 'Stray Dog' Hall caught director Debra Granik's eye while playing a minor role in her acclaimed Winter's Bone, and it's easy to see why she kept watch... Read more »| 22 Feb 2015 -
Music
Group of the Altos – R U Person or Not
"Let our hearts break and scream (when we are all courage.)" Sometimes, an act inserts into their self-penned bio a sliver of manifesto that signals their in... Read more »| 21 Feb 2015 -
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Tuff Love – Dross EP
This second EP from the Glasgow duo of Julie Eisenstein and Suse Bear (the follow-up to 2014's Junk) refines their minimal palette. It's still them but the t... Read more »| 21 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow and Manchester to host Red Bull Music Academy series
Red Bull Music Academy brings its globetrotting series of festivals and workshops to the UK this Spring, with Glasgow and Manchester among the four host citi... Read more »| 21 Feb 2015 -
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Blackhat
Cyber terrorism thriller Blackhat sees director Michael Mann continuing to explore themes found in his earlier works like Heat and Thief, but with a firm foo... Read more »| 20 Feb 2015 -
Music
East India Youth announces UK tour and shares new single Turn Away
William Doyle, aka East India Youth, has announced his biggest tour to date ahead of the release of his second album Culture of Volume – he’s als... Read more »| 20 Feb 2015 -
MusicKate Tempest @ The Kazimier, Liverpool, 18 February
“It’s rammo in the main room,” Mike Skinner once said, which The Kazimier definitely is; he also said that he was backing Kate Tempest to w... Read more »| 20 Feb 2015