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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BooksFirst Time Solo by Iain Maloney
April 1943. Eighteen-year-old Jack Devine is bound south to London to start RAF training. He dreams of playing jazz, turning girls’ heads and flying Sp... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
ComedyCrystal Baws: July 2014 Horoscopes
ARIESYour problems with premature ejaculation reach their peak this month when you blow your load the moment the tip of your penis enters the snake’s v... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
Clubs
Flock Together: Julius Steinhoff
Process is everything for Julius Steinhoff, co-founder of Hamburg's Smallville record label. He calls from his studio to discuss vintage synths, the delight of collaboration, and first LP Flocking Behaviour Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
Music
James Murphy, Swervedriver and more join East End Social finale weekend
Part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme (and a most welcome addition to the Scottish festival season), The East End Social and Chemikal Underground have ... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
Books
Happy are the Happy by Yasmina Reza
Yasmina Reza is well acquainted with the torments of the bourgeoisie; just watch her stage masterwork The God of Carnage for proof. So it's no surprise ... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
Comedy
Ask Fred: The Environment
This month our agony uncle turns green – whether that's going hippy or full Hulk remains to be seen... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014
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Music
Slow Club – Complete Surrender
Midway through Everything Is New, the second track on Complete Surrender, the strings and big, gospel-style vocals kick in. At that point the penny... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
MusicThe Icarus Line – Avowed Slavery
Hot on the heels of last year’s slow-burning Slave Vows, California’s meanest return with five more slabs of molten psychosis for our sick pleasu... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
MusicThe National Jazz Trio of Scotland – Standards Vol. III
On their third volume of Standards, Bill Wells’ mischievously christened National Jazz Trio of Scotland (actually a quartet, completed by vocalists Aby... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
Film
13 Sins
Hollywood’s cannibalistic cycle of consumption and regurgitation continues unabated, as yet another super Asian horror is chewed up, sucked of its crea... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
Music
Honeyblood – Honeyblood
In tone, Stina Tweeddale’s vocals on Super Rat are disarmingly sweet; in content, they’re scintillatingly vitriolic. “I will hate you forev... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
MusicO2 Love Music Column – July 2014
If you’re looking for summertime soul, there are few safer hands than Lalah Hathaway, daughter of Chicago legend Donny. Having scooped a Grammy this ye... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
Books
The Glasgow Coma Scale by Neil D. A. Stewart
The novel takes its title from the system used to judge consciousness in the comatose, applying it implicitly to its characters as they first numb out and th... Read more »| 27 Jun 2014 -
Books
Telling Stories: Neil Gaiman on bringing his new tale to Edinburgh
As international bestselling author Neil Gaiman prepares to bring his exciting new show to Edinburgh, he talks about the human purpose of storytelling and what you can do with the 26 letters of the alphabet, images and some tunes. Read more »| 26 Jun 2014 -
Music
Claude Speeed – My Skeleton
Releases like My Skeleton ground LuckyMe in a more vibrant, experimental milieu than even their brightly-hued, dancefloor-led 12"s. Composed by Stuart T... Read more »| 26 Jun 2014