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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BooksNorthwest Book Highlights – February 2016
In the literary world, the month of love ushers in a spiritual guide about zombies and an examination of the body. What could be more romantic? Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
BooksAmy Liptrot interview: on writing The Outrun
Amy Liptrot’s debut, The Outrun, has already marked her as a major new voice of 2016. The Skinny catches up with her days after the book’s releas... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Books
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
Amy Liptrot’s The Outrun is a beautifully written memoir about alcoholism, recovery and life at the extremes. Ten years after leaving Orkney’s re... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Art
AL and AL at HOME
Ahead of their new solo exhibition at HOME we talk to artists AL and AL about everything from Francis Crick's panspermia theory (us neither) to an Alan Turing dreamscape populated by anorexic Terminators (that's more like it) Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Music
Lake Street Dive – Side Pony
As comfortable playing the heartbroken as the heartbreaker, Lake Street Dive singer Rachael Price, with gospel pipes and an old-school jazz sensibility, mana... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Clubs
Northwest Clubbing Highlights – February 2016
A full calendar this month as your lifeless post-New Year's corpse starts to request some much-needed animation Read more »| 03 Feb 2016
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TheatreKate Bornstein at Queer Contact
As Queer Contact gears up to deliver its eighth annual festival celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender arts and culture in Greater Manchester, we catch up with gender outlaw and festival performer Kate Bornstein Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
ClubsScottish Clubbing Highlights – February 2016
February's clubbing schedule boasts the likes of Carl Craig, DMX Krew and The Black Madonna. Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Music
Holy Esque – At Hope’s Ravine
They’ve kept us waiting, but it's been worth it. At Hope’s Ravine is an assured jolt of broad-canvas, nouveau-post-punk pristineness: part-T... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Clubs
DJ Chart: Big Miz
Following the release of the blinding Safari Park Nonsense EP, Offbeat's Chris McFarlane aka Big Miz gives us a peek inside his record bag. Earning early ac... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Music
Cavern of Anti-Matter – Void Beats/Invocation Trex
It’s been seven long years since Marxist ambient-boogie machine Stereolab decided to go on an indefinite hiatus, leaving a small army of vinyl junkies ... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Music
Universal Thee – All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
If it’s become a cliché that Scotland – a dreich outcrop sitting atop Western Europe like a soggy top hat – understands the virtues ... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
MusicAnimal Collective – Painting With
The Baltimore avant-garde return with their most focused LP in years Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Clubs
The quiet world of Moomin
Moomin releases his long-awaited second album, A Minor Thought, this month – nets at the ready It feels wrong to big up Sebastian Genz too much. Here'... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Art
Scottish Art News: February 2016
This month sees a large multidisciplinary show on concrete and Scottish architecture in Dundee Contemporary Arts, a huge student arts festival in Edinburgh (ESAF) and new exhibits from Ingleby, Collective, Transmission and more. Read more »| 03 Feb 2016