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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MusicAfrica Oyé @ Sefton Park, Liverpool, 22-23 Jun
After last year’s washout, Liverpool’s free, weekend-long celebration of all things African returned to Sefton Park at the end of June, with the ... Read more »| 25 Jun 2013 -
MusicRoedelius Schneider – Tiden
Between them, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Stefan Schneider have contributed significantly to the development of ambient music since the 70s: Roedelius through... Read more »| 25 Jun 2013 -
MusicTeho Teardo and Blixa Bargeld – Still Smiling
This collaboration between Einstürzende Neubauten’s Blixa Bargeld and Italian composer Teho Teardo reveals a strikingly symbiotic relationship bet... Read more »| 25 Jun 2013 -
MusicDaniel Bachman / Tom Settle / dbh @ The Castle Hotel, Manchester, 19 Jun
America is a big deal again these days. Every new restaurant seems to be a gourmet burger palace; we watch whatever HBO throws at us, and there has been, in ... Read more »| 25 Jun 2013 -
Books
Drowntown: Book One, by Robbie Morrison and Jim Murray
Co-creator of Nikolai Dante and Japanese Dredd-spinoff Shimura, Robbie Morrison has been making an impact on UK and international comics since... Read more »| 24 Jun 2013 -
Music
Walton – Beyond
Walton moves away from the dubstep and garage sounds of his early EPs, broadening his scope to take in influences from house, techno and experimental electro... Read more »| 24 Jun 2013
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Film
The Act of Killing
Few films have explored the moral implications of murder as creatively and powerfully as The Act of Killing. Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary introduce... Read more »| 24 Jun 2013 -
Music
Bass Clef @ Soup Kitchen, Manchester, 19 Jun
Ralph Cumbers is a multi-instrumentalist, but not a conventional one. His one-man show under the tag Bass Clef is a demonstration of brass and wind inst... Read more »| 24 Jun 2013 -
Film
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After Tony Manero and Post Mortem assayed General Pinochet’s dictatorship through the lenses of discomforting murder drama and icy satire respecti... Read more »| 24 Jun 2013 -
Books
The Quarry by Iain Banks
Eighteen-year-old Kit and his dad, Guy, live in a house on the edge of an expanding quarry. Kit has Asperger’s; Guy has cancer. It’s quite funny,... Read more »| 22 Jun 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 21 June
A survey of the week's music stories: RM Hubbert takes home the Scottish Album of the Year Award; Four Tet is not Burial (... or is he?); new videos from DOOM, Fuck Buttons, METZ and more Read more »| 21 Jun 2013 -
Film
This Is the End
This Is the End is like a Who’s Who of contemporary American comedy, with almost everyone who has graced an Apatow production in the past decade making... Read more »| 21 Jun 2013 -
Music
Bosnian Rainbows – Bosnian Rainbows
Former At The Drive-In / The Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López and Les Butcherettes founder Teri Gender Bender come from dist... Read more »| 21 Jun 2013 -
ArtZoe Williams @ SWG3, until 6 Jul
The atmosphere’s heavy with incense, there’s an altar and the sound piece is paced at the rate of meditative breathing. Some controversial cultic... Read more »| 20 Jun 2013 -
Music
Loki – Edging God Out
The old retirement-and-comeback trick is a hip-hop staple, so how has it worked out for Loki, one of Scotland's most lyrically gifted writers and rappers?&nb... Read more »| 20 Jun 2013