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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FilmNight of the Comet
Fans of ’80s cheese will likely eat up Night of the Comet with a gag-worthy spoon. With its B-movie horror aesthetic, campy Valley Girl dialogue, and s... Read more »| 18 Sep 2014 -
Music"We're a rock band. We're happy with that" – The Vaselines interviewed
A full 25 years since their debut, Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee return with a third album as The Vaselines. The duo talk about yoga, still getting a kick out of music and why they're most definitely not a twee band from Bellshill Read more »| 16 Sep 2014 -
MusicBronto Skylift / Felix Champion / Sharptooh @ Nice N Sleazy, 12 September
Sharptooth are the kind of band that your elderly relatives would find too loud if they played your wedding; more gothic fuzz pop than the schizophrenic nois... Read more »| 15 Sep 2014 -
MusicUnder the Influence: Nick Oliveri
Currently touring with Californian punk veterans BL'AST! while readying a raw new solo LP for release this month, The Uncontrollable retraces the soundtrack to his adolescence Read more »| 12 Sep 2014 -
Music
Gruff Rhys @ O2 ABC, Glasgow, 5 September
There’s no support tonight, just the unusual sight of the ABC being filled with rows of plastic seating and a school-sized projector screen standing on... Read more »| 12 Sep 2014 -
Music
STANDFORSOMETHING
Celebrating rebellious individuals, we asked four rising UK bands of various persuasions: what do you stand for? Read more »| 11 Sep 2014
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Music
The Acid / Samaris @ The Deaf Institute, 8 September
London label One Little Indian has always had an ear for Icelandic talent. From Björk and Sigur Rós to Ásgeir, there’s been a consis... Read more »| 11 Sep 2014 -
Music
Dorian Concept – Joined Ends
It's been a five year wait for a new full-length album by gifted Austrian producer Dorian Concept. He's released some club-oriented, delightfully skewed beat... Read more »| 10 Sep 2014 -
Music
Cowbell – Skeleton Soul
Seems every generation gets its own set of legislated-nostalgics who wish rock’n’roll would just get back to basics. Dutifully, they head back to... Read more »| 10 Sep 2014 -
Music
Martin Carr – The Breaks
Two decades since the UK alt scene was trampled by the bovver boots of Britpop, fondness for the era grows apace. Thankfully, nostalgia appears to have kept ... Read more »| 10 Sep 2014 -
Film
Benny & Jolene
Nowhere near as irritating as the following description suggests, this ultra-low-budget indie teen movie is a cautionary tale of sacrifice and compromise. Th... Read more »| 10 Sep 2014 -
Music
Perfume Genius – Too Bright
Promises that Portishead’s Adrian Utley has helped Mike Hadreas turn his sound on its head for his third record may be a little exaggerated – but... Read more »| 09 Sep 2014 -
Music
Ryan Adams – Ryan Adams
Much could be made of Ryan Adams' first album in three years sounding, accordingly, his most focused since 2005's underestimated tone poem, 29. Arriving... Read more »| 08 Sep 2014 -
Clubs
Skinned Special: JD Twitch's Independent Scotland
With little over a week until the independence referendum, the Optimo legend gives us a specially themed mix to get you in the zone for casting that all-important ballot Read more »| 08 Sep 2014 -
Theatre
The Play’s the Thing: Theatre in the Northwest
If there's one thing you should know about the Northwest it's this: it has a cracking theatre scene that is both affordable and inclusive – whether you're just looking to fill an empty Thursday evening, or are an aspiring Maxine Peake Read more »| 08 Sep 2014