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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MusicScottish Gig Highlights – September 2014
September doesn't have to be a bleak void that spans from post-festival comedowns though to premature Christmas shopping. Despair not – artists far and... Read more »| 29 Aug 2014 -
MusicBack in Black: Interpol's Daniel Kessler introduces El Pintor
With his band about to release fifth album El Pintor – their first since the departure of talismanic bass player Carlos Dengler – Daniel Kessler tells us why Interpol's muse is on the rise Read more »| 29 Aug 2014 -
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O2 Love Music Column – September 2014
Super Furry Animals frontman and Neon Neon instigator Gruff Rhys will be performing much of American Interior at the O2 Academy on Friday 5 Sep, the album co... Read more »| 29 Aug 2014 -
Theatre1984 @ Citizens Theatre
The Citizens Theatre presents 1984, as adapted and directed by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan from the 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty Four by George... Read more »| 28 Aug 2014 -
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Alt-J – This Is All Yours
Leeds quirk-rockers Alt-J must somehow follow 2012’s Mercury Prize-winning debut An Awesome Wave. But far from any rested-upon laurels, This Is All You... Read more »| 28 Aug 2014 -
MusicPere Ubu – Carnival of Souls
Roll up, roll up – but keep your wits about you. Pere Ubu are back with Carnival of Souls, and judging by the album’s sustained air of menace, it... Read more »| 28 Aug 2014
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MusicSimian Mobile Disco – Whorl
Opening with two lush, beatless atmospheric tracks, Whorl feels like a very different incarnation of Simian Mobile Disco from the outset. Abandoning computer... Read more »| 28 Aug 2014 -
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Robert Plant – Lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar
"The whole impetus of my life as a singer has to be driven by a good brotherhood,” says Robert Plant of his new album. Recorded with current touring se... Read more »| 28 Aug 2014 -
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Half Japanese – Overjoyed
Oh, Jad Fair! A true rival to Guided By Voices’ Robert Pollard in the (mind-bogglingly) prolific indie veteran stakes, he’s also a testament to t... Read more »| 27 Aug 2014 -
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New Weather Coming: Public Art
Part of GENERATION, Jacqueline Donachie's New Weather Coming is touring Scotland in a bid to engage the communities and day-trippers Read more »| 27 Aug 2014 -
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Spider Bags – Frozen Letter
Those bursts of skin-searing fuzz should do it: exhilarating heat courtesy of Dan McGee’s guitar, raising the temperature just enough to fry everything... Read more »| 27 Aug 2014 -
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Vessel – Punish, Honey
An album that begins with 12 seconds of almost unbearably tense silence, clashing, arrhythmic drum hits, drilling, and industrial noise will inevitably be ca... Read more »| 27 Aug 2014 -
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Gudrun Gut und Joachim Irmler – 500m
On 500m’s cover, the album’s creators introduce themselves via cartoon speech bubbles, though we’d hazard that anyone tempted by the record... Read more »| 27 Aug 2014 -
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In Pictures: The Skinny Showcase @ Creative Exchange
In Pictures: The Skinny Showcase @ Creative Exchange The first annual exhibition of graduates from Scotland's art schools takes place in Leith's Creative Ex... Read more »| 26 Aug 2014 -
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First Charge of the Light Brigade – First Charge of the Light Brigade
It’s a shame Glasgow’s First Charge of the Light Brigade didn’t manage to push their self-titled debut album out a couple of months ago, wh... Read more »| 26 Aug 2014