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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MusicZomby – With Love
Excepting its mammoth run-time, With Love feels similar in both form and execution to Zomby's previous album, Dedication. This time the shadow... Read more »| 18 Jun 2013 -
MusicThe Stone Roses @ Glasgow Green, 15 June
Every reformed act must dance with their past one way or another, but today The Stone Roses rekindle history in a very specific way, revisiting the... Read more »| 18 Jun 2013 -
MusicNeil Young & Crazy Horse @ SECC, 13 June
It would be an understatement to bill Neil Young & Crazy Horse's first Glasgow date since 2001 as an extravagant return. As comically oversized ampl... Read more »| 18 Jun 2013 -
Film
The Parade
With equal marriage on the way, it’s easy to forget that in parts of the world being gay can mean daily abuse, violence and even death. Gaybashing in S... Read more »| 17 Jun 2013 -
Art
GSA Degree Show 2013: Animal Farm
On our tireless quest for emerging talent we journey to the Central Belt degree shows and scan the plain for infinite marvellous spectacles. OK, maybe not tireless... Read more »| 17 Jun 2013 -
FilmHero Worship: Bette Davis
Sarah Perks, artistic director of Cornerhouse, Manchester, tells us why she’s seduced by Bette Davis, the queen of Hollywood's golden years Read more »| 17 Jun 2013
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Art
Rachel Goodyear: Creatures of the Night
As she prepares for her upcoming solo exhibition at The International 3, Rachel Goodyear invites us to her studio and into a parallel reality inhabited by uncannily human animals, and animalistic humans Read more »| 17 Jun 2013 -
Film
Spike Island
You’d be forgiven for thinking it’s 1990: this month alone the Stone Roses headline the Isle of Wight festival, star in a Shane Meadows documenta... Read more »| 17 Jun 2013 -
Film
Before Midnight
This most unlikely of threequels returns to the story of Jesse (Hawke) and Céline (Delpy), 18 years after they first met on a train and fell in love. ... Read more »| 17 Jun 2013 -
FilmLike Someone in Love
While Woody Allen’s recent European ventures have produced distinctly mixed results, Abbas Kiarostami’s travels are proving to be much more rewar... Read more »| 14 Jun 2013 -
Music
Sonic Hearts Foundation – Into Forever
Glasgow's Sonic Hearts Foundation claim to have three album's worth of material under their collective belt, and it shows – from the opening elect... Read more »| 14 Jun 2013 -
Music
Jon Hopkins – Immunity
"King Creosote and who??" was the cry from many a Scot when Anstruther's finest unveiled 2011's seminal collaborative work Diamond Mine. Largely unknown... Read more »| 14 Jun 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 14 June
In today's Bulletin: Stuart Braithwaite on the benefit concert to save the Sighthill Stone Circle; new music from Beth Gibbons, Liars, Nigel Godrich and more; an interview with TNGHT's Lunice; the history of the Black Flag logo, plus the latest trailers Read more »| 14 Jun 2013 -
Film
Man of Steel
Following Bryan Singer’s dreary Superman Returns in 2006, and new helmer Zack Snyder’s previous picture, the diabolical Sucker Punch, b... Read more »| 13 Jun 2013 -
Books
All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
It feels as though Evie Wyld may be writing the kind of novel series that is tied together not by recurring characters or plots, but by landscapes, themes an... Read more »| 13 Jun 2013