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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ComedyAltitude Festival: Stand-up snowballs in Austria
With the Altitude Festival turning 10, co-founder Andrew Maxwell tells us of its secret Edinburgh origins, how the ski slopes call for the same mindset that's needed onstage, and the kind of audiences that know how to come in from the cold. Read more »| 05 Jan 2016 -
Film
Love
Gaspar Noé's Love was shot in 3D, but it doesn't add any dimensions to its characters “My biggest dream is to make a movie that truly depicts s... Read more »| 05 Jan 2016 -
Theatre
Snow White @ Kings Theatre, Glasgow
The King’s Theatre’s Snow White is a ‘traditional’ panto in the modern sense, which means it takes the plot of a Disney movie, pepper... Read more »| 05 Jan 2016 -
MusicHowes – 3.5 Degrees
Delicate, sparse, occasionally transmogrifying; the debut album from Manchester-based musician John Howes is both back-lit and fugue-like, riffing upon solit... Read more »| 05 Jan 2016 -
Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – January 2016
From Daughter to Vieux Farka Touré and a first appearance in Liverpool for Hollie McNish, January’s gig calendar has plenty to keep those brandy-soaked blues at bay Read more »| 04 Jan 2016 -
Clubs
Northwest Clubbing Highlights – January 2016
Laugh in the face of seasonal affective disorder by remaining underground at all times and confounding your body with a combination of bright lasers and pitch darkness. Yes, that’s right. Go clubbing! Read more »| 04 Jan 2016
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Music
Scottish Gig Highlights – January 2016
We cast an eye over a few treats from the central belt's live music calendar this coming month, featuring mini-festivals Celtic Connections, King Tut's New Year Revolution and the return of Bristol's finest. Read more »| 04 Jan 2016 -
FilmNorthwest Film Event Highlights – January 2016
The New Year gets off to a promising start with HOME’s wide-reaching celebration of Mancunian screenwriter Jim Allen, while FACT have an interesting screening to compliment their Follow exhibition Read more »| 04 Jan 2016 -
Books
Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs by Lina Wolff
‘We’re going to call this little pup Dante. Let’s call the mangy old cur over there Chaucer.’ This is Alba Cambo, standing in front o... Read more »| 04 Jan 2016 -
Music
Then Thickens – Colic
There’s plenty of drugs and death on Then Thickens’ second album, and it’s soaked in the damage done by both. My Sunday finds Jon-Lee ... Read more »| 02 Jan 2016 -
Music
De Rosa – Weem
Though they announced their reunion back in 2012, the release of Weem bookends a hiatus of almost seven years for Bellshill quintet De Rosa. Now a trio in th... Read more »| 02 Jan 2016 -
BooksPaulina & Fran by Rachel B. Glaser
Paulina and Fran are struggling with art school. Paulina pretends to be an artist, to her everything is art – maintaining her hair, trying on dead peop... Read more »| 01 Jan 2016 -
Film
The Danish Girl
The performances are what sustains Tom Hooper's beautiful but buttoned-up The Danish Girl A fictionalized account of transgender pioneer Lili Elbe, Tom Hoop... Read more »| 01 Jan 2016 -
Film
Scotland Film Event Highlights – January 2016
This month's film column begins and ends with a trivia question. In between there's the best of January's film happenings, including a chance to experience Rotterdam Film Festival from the comfort of your local cinema. Read more »| 31 Dec 2015 -
Music
Hinds – Leave Me Alone
What a year Hinds had. 2015 saw the Madrid garage-rockers explode onto the international scene, scooping up fancy festival slots with tracks like Bamboo, and... Read more »| 31 Dec 2015