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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MusicBlanck Mass – The Great Confuso EP
Mere addendum to this year’s Dumb Flesh LP? Well, no; split 50/50 between remix and new material it may be, but The Great Confuso creates its own gravi... Read more »| 20 Nov 2015 -
MusicSudakistan – Caballo Negro
Had enough of repetitive tonal washes? Splashed in sufficient puddles of droned-out acid rock? Used words like ‘motorik’ to the point of irritati... Read more »| 20 Nov 2015 -
Books
How to write your first novel
First time authors are being recognised in Scotland with the Dundee International Book Prize and Saltire Society First Book Awards. Some of those rewarded – Martin Cathcart Froden and Helen McClory – speak about breaking through in the world of publishing Read more »| 20 Nov 2015 -
Art
The Whisky Bond: Meet the studioholders
We take a tour around The Distillery in Glasgow's Whisky Bond to meet some of the freelancers and organisations who make up the building's creative community Read more »| 19 Nov 2015 -
FilmBlack Mass
Johnny Depp plays real-life crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger in this mob drama full of cliched scenes and bad Boston accents Read more »| 19 Nov 2015 -
FilmCarol
“I’m charting the correlation between what characters say and what they mean,” says a film buff while watching Sunset Boulevard in Todd Hay... Read more »| 19 Nov 2015
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Books
Book Week Scotland set for 2015 launch
Book Week Scotland 2015 kicks off on Monday 23 November – here are a selection of the key literary events taking place across Scotland over the course of the week. Read more »| 18 Nov 2015 -
ComedyJames Acaster interview: Stolen Props & Nominations
What would a truly satisfied James Acaster sound like? The Kettering stand-up is buoyant and enthusiastic about a stretch of tour dates that have been “better than ever”, but there’s a waver in his voice that suggests trouble in paradise… Read more »| 18 Nov 2015 -
Film
A Very Murray Christmas: Watch the trailer
Bill Murray is joined by a host of stars in the new trailer to his Sofia Coppola-directed Christmas Special for Netflix, A Very Murray Christmas. As anyone ... Read more »| 18 Nov 2015 -
Music
Explosions In The Sky announce 2016 UK tour
Texas post-rockers Explosions In The Sky have announced a string of UK and Ireland tour dates for April 2016, their first in four years. Read more »| 17 Nov 2015 -
Music
Ibeyi @ King Tut's, Glasgow, 10 November
There’s a strange, special warmth to the Ibeyi twins. It's in their spine-shivering harmonies, and in their sparse, precise percussion. More than anyth... Read more »| 17 Nov 2015 -
Art
This Week in Scottish Art: Gold Panning & more
In this week's Scottish art round-up, catch new exhibitions a-plenty in Glasgow, a talk on the art of collage in Dundee, and work centred on "vulgar adoptions of foreign words" in Edinburgh. Read more »| 17 Nov 2015 -
Music
John Cummings leaves Mogwai
Guitarist John Cummings has left Mogwai after nearly 20 years with the band. Read more »| 17 Nov 2015 -
Music
Zyna Hel interview: Constellation Woman
Zyna Hel – aka visual artist Elisabeth Oswell – is intent on creating a world of her own with her dark electro pop. Taking inspiration from the likes of Britney, Kate Bush and Goldfrapp, she explains how a French childhood first lit her creative flames. Read more »| 17 Nov 2015 -
Clubs
Steffi on playing live & Klakson records' relaunch
Ahead of a UK tour this month, the Ostgut Ton favourite talks sequencers, label duties and racking up bills in Hard Wax Read more »| 16 Nov 2015