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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ClubsAvert Your Eyes: Demdike Stare's Miles Whittaker interviewed
Demdike Stare are master craftsmen in hunting through hidden and secret histories to create scorching sonic experimentalism. But are they happy with being so readily categorised? The Skinny braves the witches' gaze to find out... Read more »| 06 Jun 2014 -
ClubsIntelligent Design: Jimmy Edgar in interview
Berlin-based producer Jimmy Edgar on his new label Ultramajic, graphic design and his Detroit homecoming gig Read more »| 06 Jun 2014 -
FilmGrace of Monaco
Early on in this Grace Kelly biopic, Alfred Hitchcock (Roger Ashton-Griffiths) visits Princess Grace (played by Nicole Kidman) to convince her to return to a... Read more »| 06 Jun 2014 -
Film
Delivery Man
Adding another feckless manchild to his dubious performance portfolio, Delivery Man finds Vince Vaughn in uncharacteristically likeable form. He plays David ... Read more »| 06 Jun 2014 -
MusicHero Worship: Nick Oliveri on Chris Goss
Nick Oliveri lays his career at the feet of an old mentor, the godfather of desert rock Read more »| 06 Jun 2014 -
Film
Berlin Music Video Awards 2014: Winners
Winners from the 2014 Berlin Music Video Awards included videos from The Correspondents, Dog Blood Watch them here... Read more »| 05 Jun 2014
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Comedy
Spotlight on... Eleanor Morton
We catch up to talk gigs, heckles and enormous ducks... Read more »| 05 Jun 2014 -
Books
The Four Marys: A Quartet of Contemporary Folk Tales by Jean Rafferty
Mary Magdalene and her namesake, the Mother of God - whores and virgins, those cruel binary stereotypes. Jean Rafferty shows all those vivid hues in between in this quartet of contemporary Scottish folk tales Read more »| 05 Jun 2014 -
Books
For Faughie's Sake by Laura Marney
Glaswegian Trixie returns in this brilliant sequel to No Wonder I Take A Drink, sick of the mud, midges and cliques of Highland village Inverfaughie. In... Read more »| 05 Jun 2014 -
Film
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Lindsay Anderson’s if... centres on an elite boarding school populated by subservient pupils and fascistic ‘whips’ – head boys w... Read more »| 05 Jun 2014 -
Music
Ascending The Animal Kingdom: Parquet Courts' Austin Brown Interviewed
Simultaneously everyone’s favourite band and completely misunderstood in 2013, Parquet Courts are back to clarify their position with Sunbathing Animal Read more »| 04 Jun 2014 -
Music
Mastodon – Once More ‘Round the Sun
“All my heroes, they’re all dead,” Troy Sanders bellows on Chimes At Midnight’s apocalyptic bridge. It’s another plunge into th... Read more »| 04 Jun 2014 -
Film
Blood on the Road: Tom Berninger on Mistaken for Strangers
You know Matt Berninger, frontman for The National. Now meet his brother Tom, the family misfit who followed his big bro on the road with a camera and a thirst for rock'n'roll excess. The result is the hilarious and touching doc Mistaken for Strangers Read more »| 04 Jun 2014 -
Comedy
Spotlight: Adam Staunton
The Liverpool comic and Maverick Renegade on naff last suppers and fighting small dogs Read more »| 04 Jun 2014 -
Film
Hard Cel: An interview with Disney Animator Floyd Norman
With the Blu-Ray release of Sleeping Beauty coinciding with the release of the live action reboot Maleficent, The Skinny caught up with veteran animator Floyd Norman to discuss his memories of making the film as a young artist Read more »| 03 Jun 2014