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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BooksOn the Rocks: Writing on Addiction
This collection of writing looks across the spectrum of addiction: highs and lows, revelry and regret. Acceptance, treatment and recovery. The Skinny introduces abridged extracts, plotting points on the life of a rock'n'roll poet crashing into the cliffs Read more »| 10 May 2016 -
Art
Prem Sahib @ Grand Union, Birmingham
It’s the day Prince died. Now all our favourite cultural icons seem to be falling from the mortal realm pretty quick recently, so we should be used to ... Read more »| 10 May 2016 -
BooksLunatics, Lovers and Poets ed. by Hahn & Valencia
This collection gracefully exhibits 12 previously unpublished pieces inspired by two literary giants: Cervantes and Shakespeare. With six English language au... Read more »| 10 May 2016 -
BooksThe Bones of Grace by Tahmima Anam
Tahmima Anam first declared herself with the award-winning 2007 novel A Golden Age, soon followed by its equally acclaimed sequel The Good Muslim. These... Read more »| 10 May 2016 -
ArtRaoul Reynolds @ Scotland Street School, Glasgow
Scotland Street host fictional artist Raoul Reynolds for their Glasgow International presentation. Constructing an entire biography and opus for a retrospective seems ambitious, but the piece has its interesting moments. Read more »| 10 May 2016 -
Art
This Week in Scottish Art: 10-16 May
This week, there are new exhibitions in Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh as well as music in Fruitmarket Gallery and the reopening of Jupiter Artland. Read more »| 10 May 2016
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Art
E(i)lshem(i)us @ 42 Carlton Place, Glasgow
42 Carlton Place presents the work of little-known 20th century painter Louis Michel Eilshemius, offering a new take on the outsider artist Read more »| 10 May 2016 -
Film
Richard Linklater on Everybody Wants Some!!
Indie movie hero Richard Linklater discusses creativity, the 80s, being a jock and Everybody Wants Some!!, his ‘spiritual sequel’ to Dazed and Co... Read more »| 10 May 2016 -
Clubs
Richard Searling DJ Mix – Skinned #13
Soul connoisseur and Wigan Casino hero Richard Searling delivers a batch of hot northern soul numbers for our Skinned mix series Read more »| 10 May 2016 -
Music
Gold Panda – Good Luck and Do Your Best
When you look beyond life's gauntlet of insufferable bullshit, sometimes we do live in a bright, wonderful world; Derwin Panda has decided it’s time to... Read more »| 10 May 2016 -
Music
Beth Orton – Kidsticks
Beth Orton rolls back the years with an exceptional return to form. Read more »| 10 May 2016 -
Music
Malcolm Middleton – Summer of ‘13
“Won’t someone please come on and diagnose me with something,” urges the curiously uplifting opener Steps. “I’m not making prog... Read more »| 09 May 2016 -
Books
Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila
You can forget about the empty savannah, the deep jungle and the native peoples mystically in touch with nature and a purer, simpler past. This is a book abo... Read more »| 09 May 2016 -
BooksZero K by Don DeLillo
“What’s the point of living if we don’t die at the end if it?” observes a nameless monk in Don DeLillo’s seventeenth novel. It&... Read more »| 09 May 2016 -
Music
Holy Fuck – Congrats
Holy... shit. Chimes Broken, the opening track to the saintly, sweary Canadians’ surprise new album will smack you in the teeth, twice. Three times, ev... Read more »| 09 May 2016