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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FilmThe Revenant
Iñárritu and DiCaprio reach for transcendence, but The Revenant is a slog There’s a gripping 90-minute survival thriller buried som... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
MusicPAUW – Macrocosm Microcosm
Accomplished and playful, the Dutch quartet's debut is a likeable slice of psychedelia. But that's only half the story. While scene leaders Tame Impala ... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
MusicDaughter – Not to Disappear
If Daughter's debut had you label the London trio as de rigueur indie alt-folk, think again: Not to Disappear sets their tender, haunted shadowplay... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
Music
Mercury Rising: SOAK talks from Hong Kong
Derry teenager Bridie Monds-Watson has been wowing audiences under the moniker SOAK for years already. We catch up with her on tour in Hong Kong to talk about going global, emotional honesty and plans for 2016 Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
Music
Savages – Adore Life
Few bands can rule that 'love is the answer' without a single wink of irony, and pull it off with magnificent, majestic aplomb. For this reason, amongst many... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
Books
The Essential 2016 Literary Calendar
A new year brings new literary promise: new novels, more festivals and debates, new adaptations, spoken word, poetry and graphic novels. As The Skinny discovers, 2016 has everything to offer the discerning bibliophile... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016
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BooksPoetry News – Scotland, January 2016
An unsullied new year is the perfect opportunity for new poets to pick up a pen or punch a keyboard. Here's some key advice for those in pursuit of their literary intent, and how and where in Scotland to take things forward. Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
Music
Emma Pollock – In Search of Harperfield
Devotees of former indie magicians The Delgados will find much to love in Emma Pollock's third solo album since her revered band amicably split in 2005. The ... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
Music
Shearwater – Jet Plane and Oxbow
Back in 2008, with breakthrough Rook newly hatched and attracting fresh interest, Shearwater were invited to open a handful of dates on Coldplay’s... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
Music
The Besnard Lakes – A Coliseum Complex Museum
If you like giant orbs, the great outdoors, hanging out in museums and being told creepy, candle-lit stories of strange beasts and ghostly happenings, you&rs... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
Music
Songs For Walter – Songs For Walter
After years of gracing the various backstreet and basement stages of his hometown, Manchester's Laurie Hulme finally releases his debut album. A hotch-potch ... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
Clubs
Scottish Clubbing Highlights – January 2016
January blues hitting home? Not to worry: clubland has the answer, as Jackmaster, Blue Hour and David Rodigan bring their wildly-differing but equally vital wares to Scotland. Read more »| 05 Jan 2016 -
Books
Nicotine by Gregor Hens
Nicotine. A highly appropriate work to review this time of year, when self-imposed abstinence casts its cloud over the chaste post-Christmas period. Gregor ... Read more »| 05 Jan 2016 -
Music
Mystery Jets – Curve of the Earth
Those firing into Curve of the Earth expecting the same twinkly-eyed, danceable indie-pop as their seminal debut Making Dens (some ten years later, would you... Read more »| 05 Jan 2016 -
Music
Black Sheep: LuckyMe's NAKED plot their debut LP
Ungoogleable darksmiths NAKED help The Skinny break down one of the most hotly anticipated debuts of the coming year Read more »| 05 Jan 2016