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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ArtRSA New Contemporaries: Fresh Meat
Like a pack of wolves around the back of a diner, we wait eagerly for the pickings of the degree shows, siphoned off and served up in the RSA’s New Contemporaries. A few of them kindly agreed to spill their plans for the show Read more »| 02 Apr 2013 -
ArtMick Peter @ SWG3, until 27 Apr
Mick Peter takes a certain hard-line approach to making art that has its origin in 20th Century experimental literature. A fan of novelist and poet B.S. John... Read more »| 02 Apr 2013 -
MusicScotland Gig Highlights – April 2013
A roundup of the most unmissable gigs in the Central Belt, with the return of the Outskirts Festival and live appearances from James Blake, Echo & The Bunnymen, Trail of Dead, Malcolm Middleton, plus the brutal sonic assault of Death Grips Read more »| 01 Apr 2013 -
Books
The Trade Secret by Robert Newman
Rob Newman's fourth novel is both an investigation into the pervasive forces of corporations, class and capitalism, as well as a swash-buckling adventure ... Read more »| 01 Apr 2013 -
Theatre
Jo Strømgren and Victor Quijada: Scottish Dance Theatre
Our Theatre editor talks to Jo Strømgren and Victor Quijada about their upcoming shows for Scottish Dance Theatre Read more »| 01 Apr 2013 -
Clubs
Spotlight on... The Sub Club
In the first of a regular feature for the Clubs section, we'll be taking a look at some of Scotland's best nightclubs. Where better to start than with the world-famous Glasgow institution that is the Sub Club... Read more »| 01 Apr 2013
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Books
Love Sex Travel Musik by Rodge Glass
Sharing a theme of cheap air travel, these short stories reflect on a world lubricated by flights that cost less than lunch. Far from realising their dreams ... Read more »| 01 Apr 2013 -
FilmSpring Breakers
This candy-coloured delirium opens with a wet and wild montage of well endowed young women gyrating in slow motion as Neanderthal jocks cascade cheap lager o... Read more »| 01 Apr 2013 -
Music
The OK Social Club – Nothing In Common
Possibly not since The View’s debut has a Scottish band mined youthful, boozy nostalgia quite as doggedly as Edinburgh’s The OK Social Club. &ldq... Read more »| 01 Apr 2013 -
Music
O2 Love Music Column – April 2013
As one half of London-based hip hop collective Task Force's sibling leadership, Chester P has already carved a niche following with his g... Read more »| 01 Apr 2013 -
Music
Wild Honey – Big Flash
The second LP from Madrid’s Wild Honey – essentially the work of multi-instrumentalist Guillermo Farré – is an unashamedly kitschy, ... Read more »| 01 Apr 2013 -
ArtShona Macnaughton: Foiling the System
For Shona Macnaughton, making work is about navigating the economic and social situation she finds herself in. Ahead of her New Work Scotland show she told us why this means employing someone else to do it Read more »| 01 Apr 2013 -
Music
The Flaming Lips – The Terror
Billed as The Lips 'bleak, disturbing' record (with suitably ominous title to match), the reality is that this, their thirteenth studio album, whil... Read more »| 29 Mar 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 29 March
Preview the new albums from QOTSA and The Flaming Lips; Glastonbury bill announced; new music from Tricky, Phosphorescent and Woodenbox; shoot your own video for WHY?; plus a cautiously optimistic look at The Wolverine Read more »| 29 Mar 2013 -
Music
Fol Chen – The False Alarms
In the four years of their existence, LA’s Fol Chen have held a month-long residency at the city’s Echo venue, organised collaborative workshops ... Read more »| 29 Mar 2013