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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MusicC Duncan @ Pleasance, 4 December
A Mercury nod – and with it a breakneck ascent to hot topic status – has barely fazed C Duncan and his band, still as humble and charming as the ... Read more »| 09 Dec 2015 -
ClubsMr. Scruff's alternative Christmas playlist
Throw another log on the fire and get down with this irregular Christmas playlist, courtesy of Andy Carthy aka Mr. Scruff Read more »| 09 Dec 2015 -
BooksFilmish by Edward Ross
Aiming to act as a 'graphic journey through film' – charting both the evolution of the medium and the theory surrounding it – the most ... Read more »| 08 Dec 2015 -
Art
This Week in Scottish Art: WASPS & EAMIF
The week might have started high with the Turner Prize, but there's plenty more to get into over the next week, including Edinburgh Artist Moving Image Festival and a host of one-off events across Scotland. Read more »| 08 Dec 2015 -
BooksOn Cats by Charles Bukowski
Like Bukowski. Love cats. Like people who love cats. Bukowski loved cats. Felt that with the best of them, 'each movement slides through space without fricti... Read more »| 08 Dec 2015 -
Music
The Spook School / Chorusgirl / Joyce Delaney @ Nice n Sleazy, 6 Dec
Jangle pop’s detractors have always had it wrong, the well-worn dismissals (fey; ineffectual) failing to comprehend the strong seam of egalitarianism s... Read more »| 08 Dec 2015
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Film
Terence Davies interview: making Sunset Song
Terence Davies has been trying to adapt Lewis Grassic Gibbon's classic Scottish novel Sunset Song for over 15 years. We catch up with the Liverpudlian filmmaker on the eve of its release to find out why he persevered to bring it to the screen Read more »| 08 Dec 2015 -
Art
Community art – Assemble win the Turner Prize 2015
Architecture and design collective Assemble won the Turner Prize 2015 for their renovation of otherwise-retired housing stock in Liverpool. Read more »| 08 Dec 2015 -
Art
Rogue Artists Studios' Manchester home sold
Crusader Mill, the Manchester home of the Rogue Artists Studios art complex, has been sold to a property developer, with the studios' artists facing a move t... Read more »| 07 Dec 2015 -
Music
Anna Meredith unveils 'R-Type' video
Edinburgh composer and electronic musician Anna Meredith reveals the video for R-Type, from her forthcoming debut album. The album, entitled Varmints, ... Read more »| 07 Dec 2015 -
Film
The Quiet Man
Sean Thornton (Wayne) arrives in his familial home of Inisfree to trade the bustle of the States for the sleepy charms of the Emerald Isle. He’s allure... Read more »| 07 Dec 2015 -
Film
Day of the Outlaw
André de Toth’s gorgeous black-and-white noir-tinged western, shot in 1959, is a terrific example of early genre interrogation that precedes the... Read more »| 07 Dec 2015 -
Film
A New Leaf
This long overdue release is accompanied by a video essay in which critic David Cairns laments the feature’s unremarkable box office performance. Had A... Read more »| 07 Dec 2015 -
Music
Courtney Barnett @ O2 ABC, Glasgow, 2 Dec
She’s not just Aussie, Courtney Barnett, she’s the definition of it. Cleaving to her country’s most worthy musical exports, she takes the O... Read more »| 07 Dec 2015 -
Theatre
Traverse Theatre unveils Spring 2016 programme
Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre has announced details of its Spring 2016 programme, featuring new theatre from playwrights and companies from across Scotland and beyond. Read more »| 07 Dec 2015