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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MusicDavid 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 -
MusicHoly 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 -
Music
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 -
Music
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 -
Music
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
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Film
Brooklyn
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 -
Film
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 -
ArtAdrian 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 -
ArtMaster 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 -
Clubs
Skinned #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 -
Music
Prehistoric Friends – Prehistoric Friends
Some records are easy to love, others can be impossible to hate. The debut album from Glasgow's Prehistoric Friend's does a fine job of bridging both of thes... Read more »| 30 Oct 2015 -
Music
Kristian Harting – Summer of Crush
“The muted, minimalist nature of these recordings will perhaps leave some yearning for more layers of sound to get lost in,” said The Skinny of F... Read more »| 30 Oct 2015 -
Comedy
The Improverts bring spooky surprise to Bedlam
The Improverts are back for their regular Friday night slot and tonight they promise to spook Edinburgh's Bedlam Theatre with a special Halloween twist. Read more »| 30 Oct 2015 -
Music
Black International – A Lesson In Repression
Having grinded on the Scottish circuit for several years now, powerhouse drummer Craig Peebles and guitarist/frontman Stewart Allan return with a refine... Read more »| 30 Oct 2015