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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MusicFOUND – Cloning
Over their various iterations, Edinburgh collective FOUND have reshaped and overhauled their sound accordingly. Now down to a bare-bones two piece after the ... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
MusicDisappears – Low: Live In Chicago
Philip Glass aside, why on earth would anyone choose to take on Bowie’s Low? There is context: the opening of last year’s Bowie exhibition i... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
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USA Nails – No Pleasure
Let's get it out of the way: USA Nails are a post-hardcore supergroup featuring members of the British underground scene’s finest acts of the past deca... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
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!!! – As If
!!! – the band so obnoxiously named that knowing how to pronounce the symbols certifies you a know-it-all and will possibly see you eschewed at parties... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
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David Mackenzie & Tony Doogan – Starred Up: Film Music Reworked
Even with the film fresh in mind, you could be forgiven for responding to news of Starred Up: Film Music Reworked with the question: what film music? Within ... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
MusicParquet Courts – Monastic Living EP
Parquet Courts have been busy on the road, and they want you to know. Monastic Living is a surprisingly chaste title for a compilation of thoughts from a tou... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015
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Music
Holy Sons – Fall of Man
For a man who once admitted to taking drugs every day since he was 16, Portland songwriter and drummer Emil Amos is a prolific musician. Claiming to have wri... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
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The Drink – Capital
If BBC Four’s recent history of indie music has piqued your interest about a world of shy boys with bowl cuts and girls with hair slides then London tr... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
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Bill Wells And Friends – Nursery Rhymes
Reworked nursery rhymes, you say? Recorded by musical catalyst Bill Wells alongside collaborators old and new? Ok, whatever. Yo La Tengo announce their prese... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
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Steeple Remove – Position Normal
Originally available digitally or on import, the French experimentalists’ fifth long player – out in their homeland at the beginning of the year ... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
FilmBrooklyn
Adapted from Colm Tóibín’s beloved novel, Brooklyn is a refreshingly old-fashioned melodrama with depths that transcend its initial light... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
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Scotland Film Event Highlights – November 2015
German cinema, the Scottish Gone with the Wind and the Star Wars movie that George Lucas really doesn't want you to see Read more »| 01 Nov 2015 -
Art
Adrian Morris @ 42 Carlton Place
Casual exhibition space 42 Carlton Place mount an exhibition of Adrian Morris, with work from the 60s and spanning 30 years. There's a sharp sense of economy, with the least means allowing surprising variation and interest. Read more »| 01 Nov 2015 -
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Master Rock on BBC Radio
Maria Fusco writes for three voices in Master Rock, a performance originally transmitted on BBC Radio and now available online. Read more »| 01 Nov 2015 -
ClubsSkinned #10: Kelvin Brown [Eyes Down]
One half of legendary club night Eyes Down, Kelvin Brown is the newest esteemed guest in our Skinned mix series, dropping off a fresh batch of odd numbers for your listening pleasure. He tells us about making art and the joys of endless discovery Read more »| 30 Oct 2015