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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BooksCity on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
Garth Risk Hallberg's first full novel, City on Fire, has been compared to Don DeLillo's masterpiece, Underworld Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
TheatreWaiting for Godot @ The Lyceum, Edinburgh, 22 Sep
Even 60 years on, Samuel Beckett's subversive Waiting for Godot still manages to provoke and unsettle. Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
Music
Dave Heumann – Here in the Deep
Autumn. And as if to mark the occasion, the debut solo LP from the Arbouretum frontman arrives shaded in earthy, feuille-morte introspection, like a WB Yeats... Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
MusicLarry Gus – I Need New Eyes
If anyone’s got a handle on life, you’d think it’d be musicians – right? Not if they’re Larry Gus, apparently. Convinced o... Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
BooksEndgame by Ahmet Altan
Turkish author and journalist Ahmet Altan makes his English language debut with Endgame, originally published in Turkish as Son Oyun Read more »| 05 Oct 2015 -
Film
Suffragette
From its opening scene set in the veritable hellscape of the Glass House Laundry, a literal sweatshop where women are forced into servitude as children and l... Read more »| 05 Oct 2015
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FilmNorthwest Film Event Highlights – October 2015
This month's column is dominated by two events: multiple screenings marking the date when Marty McFly sees his future in Back to the Future Part II, and Halloween, the horror-buff's favourite night of the year Read more »| 05 Oct 2015 -
Music
The Twilight Sad – Òran Mór Session
Comprising reworked tracks, B-sides and a cover of Arthur Russell’s I Couldn’t Say It To Your Face, this session highlights the incredible intricacies and melodies behind the Kilsyth trio's acclaimed Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave Read more »| 05 Oct 2015 -
Film
Red Army
Gabe Polsky’s compelling film about the world-beating Soviet ice hockey team that dominated the sport from 1954 to 1991 is a swift and incisive examina... Read more »| 05 Oct 2015 -
Film
Deep Red
Heavily influential on John Carpenter's Halloween, Italian slasher classic Deep Red comes to DVD. Read more »| 05 Oct 2015 -
Film
Sicario
With one leading Republican nominee currently bloviating about building a "giant wall" between the US and Mexico, Sicario feels like a timely critique of Ame... Read more »| 05 Oct 2015 -
Film
Seconds
There’s a good reason this paranoid thriller bombed at the 1966 box office – it’s possibly the bleakest film ever made. John Frankenheimer&... Read more »| 05 Oct 2015 -
Art
Scottish Art News: October 2015
Art highlights for October: the Turner Prize comes to Glasgow, plus Adrian Morris and Hideyuki Katsumata. Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
Music
In Session: Outblinker – 'Orange'
Ahead of their appearance at the Pleasance Sessions next weekend (Saturday, 9 October) alongside Blanck Mass, BDY_PRTS and RM Hubbert, we joined Outblinker i... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
Music
Jeff Mills – Exhibitionist 2
11 years on from the pioneering original, Jeff Mills releases his long-awaited sequel Exhibitionist 2. This latest release provides a detailed look into Mills’ techno artistry via: DJ mixes, studio jamming, and 909 workouts Read more »| 02 Oct 2015