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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BooksWaiting for the Past by Les Murray
Les Murray's new short story collection is sumptuously satisfying for the patient reader. Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
MusicWHITE rise from Kassidy and The Low Miffs' ashes
WHITE are a far more colourful band than the moniker might suggest. With just a couple of singles under their belt and former members of Kassidy and The Low Miffs in their number, just how have the Glasgow five-piece gelled? Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
MusicThe Spills – Collecting Dust
Caught somewhere between a fondness for Pavement and their apparent desire to be Mclusky, this Wakefield quartet find their heads tilted towards the nonchala... Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
MusicMac DeMarco @ O2 ABC Glasgow, 7 September
Glasgow may have just killed Mac DeMarco. The rambunctious singer has launched himself above the eager masses pressed against the barrier of the O2 ABC stage... Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
Clubs
Helena Hauff: DJ Chart
Eight of Hamburg DJ Helene Hauff's favourites, from Privacy to Morphology to Unit Moebius. Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
Art
Chinese art from the 1970s to now @ Whitworth
I’m looking at a vast monochromatic screen print, Untitled (Three Leaders) (1989), a trio of figures with a familiar and foreboding Chairman Mao at the... Read more »| 09 Sep 2015
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Music
Sealings – I'm A Bastard
Moody, minimalist, mal-illuminated… well yes, we may have been travelled this way before. Yet however derivative such disenfranchised narratives can a... Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
Music
Dark Buddha Rising – Inversum
Following on from 2013's sprawling Dakhmandal, Finland's Dark Buddha Rising return with a new lineup for fifth LP Inversum. It's an album of two halves; comp... Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
Music
The Garden Party 2015: The Review
With Dutch Uncles, LoneLady and many more in tow, Leeds Garden Party is an end-of-summer excursion, one wistful look back before the autumn arrives. Read more »| 08 Sep 2015 -
Music
Natalie Prass @ Electric Circus, Edinburgh, 2 September
There’s a Venn diagram somewhere that overlaps folk-rock with that tedious signifier of overly-tasteful coffee-tableism known as ‘AOR’. On ... Read more »| 08 Sep 2015 -
Art
This Week in Scottish Art: Events Every Day
Every day this week, there are screenings, exhibition openings and film festivals to catch across Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen – here's our rundown of what to expect. Read more »| 08 Sep 2015 -
Music
Girl Band – Holding Hands With Jamie
Having checked that yes, this is an album – and not a cake made by hyper-active children with every conceivable ingredient thrown somewhere in the gene... Read more »| 08 Sep 2015 -
Music
Tom Araya on Repentless, fame, and Slayer's legacy
Frontman Tom Araya discusses the losses of Jeff Hanneman and Dave Lombardo, the breakdown of their relationship with Rick Rubin, and his uncomfortable relationship with their legacy Read more »| 07 Sep 2015 -
Music
C Duncan Interviewed: Bedroom to Box Office
We chat with Glaswegian virtuoso C Duncan about turning a one-man, one-year labour of love into an arresting, unmissable live act Read more »| 07 Sep 2015 -
Music
Glen Hansard – Didn't He Ramble
Didn’t He Ramble is Glen Hansard’s second solo release, but far from his second outing. He’s recorded with The Frames and The Swell Season ... Read more »| 07 Sep 2015