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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MusicMartin Carr – The Breaks
Two decades since the UK alt scene was trampled by the bovver boots of Britpop, fondness for the era grows apace. Thankfully, nostalgia appears to have kept ... Read more »| 10 Sep 2014 -
FilmBenny & Jolene
Nowhere near as irritating as the following description suggests, this ultra-low-budget indie teen movie is a cautionary tale of sacrifice and compromise. Th... Read more »| 10 Sep 2014 -
MusicPerfume Genius – Too Bright
Promises that Portishead’s Adrian Utley has helped Mike Hadreas turn his sound on its head for his third record may be a little exaggerated – but... Read more »| 09 Sep 2014 -
Music
Ryan Adams – Ryan Adams
Much could be made of Ryan Adams' first album in three years sounding, accordingly, his most focused since 2005's underestimated tone poem, 29. Arriving... Read more »| 08 Sep 2014 -
Clubs
Skinned Special: JD Twitch's Independent Scotland
With little over a week until the independence referendum, the Optimo legend gives us a specially themed mix to get you in the zone for casting that all-important ballot Read more »| 08 Sep 2014 -
Theatre
The Play’s the Thing: Theatre in the Northwest
If there's one thing you should know about the Northwest it's this: it has a cracking theatre scene that is both affordable and inclusive – whether you're just looking to fill an empty Thursday evening, or are an aspiring Maxine Peake Read more »| 08 Sep 2014
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ArtGego. Line as Object @ Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
In 1966, Gego gave a talk at the Tamarind Lithography workshop in California. In the draft for this, currently on display as part of a retrospective at the H... Read more »| 08 Sep 2014 -
Art
Object Recognition: Mishka Henner and David Oates @ Sale Waterside Arts Centre
‘There is no truth,’ Gustave Flaubert once wrote, ‘only perception.’ Exploring David Oates and Mishka Henner’s intriguing exhib... Read more »| 08 Sep 2014 -
Art
Where Do I End and You Begin: The Art of Nations
As Glaswegians loiter in a post-Games zeal, curators of Edinburgh Art Festival reconceptualise the Commonwealth bonanza with a didactically international exhibition, Where Do I End And You Begin, at City Art Centre Read more »| 08 Sep 2014 -
Art
Internet Curtains @ Tramway
There’s an absence of straightforward flatness that comes up across the works in Internet Curtains. Iain Hetherington’s depiction of a Commonweal... Read more »| 08 Sep 2014 -
Film
Life through a Lens: Film Studies 101
Are you an incredibly lazy film student? If so, get the gist of the whole of film history by watching the quintessential movies from each decade of cinema's short existence Read more »| 08 Sep 2014 -
Books
Language, Live! Spoken Word and Poetry in the Northwest
Budding poet, writer or performer? Grab the bull by the horns – or, er, your audience by the... imagination – and test your material onstage at a variety of vibrant spoken word nights Read more »| 08 Sep 2014 -
Film
A Dangerous Game
In Anthony Baxter’s 2011 documentary You’ve Been Trumped, a group of residents of Aberdeenshire opposed Donald Trump and his attempts to transfor... Read more »| 08 Sep 2014 -
Film
Back in the Habit: Pawel Pawlikowski on Ida
Ida marks Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski's return to his home nation and his return to form. The My Summer of Love director speaks to us about Ida's surprise success and how making it allowed him to escape the boredom of cinema Read more »| 08 Sep 2014 -
Film
At Berkeley
Frederick Wiseman's films are the purest examples of documentary filmmaking that it's possible to find. There are no onscreen captions in his films, no music... Read more »| 08 Sep 2014