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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MusicEverything Everything – Get To Heaven
Three albums in and folk are eyeing northern quartet Everything Everything closely; surely they must misstep eventually? Alas, Get To Heaven is as polished a... Read more »| 03 Jun 2015 -
Books
Concrete Jungle: Eleanor Rees on Blood Child
As she releases her third collection, Blood Child, poet Eleanor Rees discusses her political incentive, celebrates the imagination and defends the role of the local poet Read more »| 03 Jun 2015 -
MusicOutfit – Slowness
Their 2013 debut Performance didn't spark throughout, but its clutch of on-the-money highlights announced Outfit as an act keen – and equipped – ... Read more »| 03 Jun 2015 -
Music
Desaparecidos – Payola
When the last Desaparecidos album surfaced in 2002, emo wunderkind Conor Oberst was only 22. Still, their ideas were fully formed: The 'Disappeared’ pr... Read more »| 03 Jun 2015 -
Music
The LaFontaines – Class
Capitalising on the recent Scottish hip-hop surge, Motherwell quintet The LaFontaines raised the bar with their latest single King. Unrelenting, nervy lyrics... Read more »| 03 Jun 2015 -
BooksIt Started With a Cough: words with Louise Welsh
Serial literary monogamist Louise Welsh is looking more long term with the publication of the second of her Plague Times trilogy. She talks to crime author Russel D. McLean about extending this post-pandemic world Read more »| 02 Jun 2015
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Books
The Dark Horse: Cantering into the Literary Limelight
After being edited for a period from Hugh MacDiarmid's cottage, boasting Seamus Heaney as a lifetime subscriber, and publishing high calibre contributors including George Mackay Brown, The Dark Horse is a thoroughbred. It's now 20, and its time to party. Read more »| 02 Jun 2015 -
Music
Miaoux Miaoux / Monogram @ Stereo, Glasgow, 27 May
When Miaoux Miaoux – aka producer Julian Corrie – launched his debut album Light of the North at Mono back in 2012 it was a relatively low-key af... Read more »| 02 Jun 2015 -
ClubsSummer Festivals 2015: A Club Outside
Clubbing outdoors this summer? Here are some decent choices within a thousand miles of Britannia, from Gottwood to Green Man; Meadows In The Mountain to Melt. Read more »| 02 Jun 2015 -
Art
Dangerous Encounters and Exuberant Greens: This Week in Scottish Art
There's plenty to be occupying ourselves culturally this week, with an informal chat about the posthuman condition, new exhibitions from Glasgow's major contemporary art institutions and two more degree shows. Read more »| 02 Jun 2015 -
Art
Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show 2015: Surface Tension
In Edinburgh College of Art's 2015 degree show, the work is remarkable for being wrought with noticeable consideration. Also trending amongst this year's graduates is a comfort in incorporating new media in a critical and reflexive way Read more »| 02 Jun 2015 -
Music
Woodenbox – Foreign Organ
Occupying similar nouveau folk territory to the likes of Aberfeldy or Admiral Fallow, Woodenbox’s third full-length sees Ali Downer's men in contemplat... Read more »| 02 Jun 2015 -
Music
Hudson Mohawke – Lantern
Six years separate Ross Birchard's effervescent debut Butter and his thirstily-awaited follow-up Lantern. His 808-obsessed work in the meantime with TNGHT an... Read more »| 02 Jun 2015 -
Film
The Look of Silence
The prospect of crafting a worthy successor to the phenomenal The Act of Killing is a daunting one, but with The Look of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer has rise... Read more »| 02 Jun 2015 -
ClubsScottish Clubbing Highlights – June 2015
June's offerings include DJ TLR, Tiger & Woods and PLO Man Read more »| 01 Jun 2015