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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MusicState Broadcasters – A Different Past (Album Premiere)
Take a first listen to the long-awaited third album from Glasgow quartet State Broadcasters Read more »| 22 Mar 2017 -
FilmTranspecos
This impressive debut from director Greg Kwedar is a taut and atmospheric thriller about the drug trade set amid the American-Mexican borderlands Read more »| 21 Mar 2017 -
Music
Evolution Not Resolution: Tim Kasher interview
The man behind Cursive and The Good Life opens up about latest album No Resolution, his movie-making ambitions and the role of culture in troubled times Tim... Read more »| 21 Mar 2017 -
MusicCloud Nothings @ Stereo, Glasgow, 17 Mar
It’s a Friday night and the walk to Renfield Lane sees Glasgow’s city centre bobbing with Guinness-branded top hats. Pints have been flowing sinc... Read more »| 21 Mar 2017 -
ArtThis Week in Scottish Art: 21-27 March
This week sees Embassy, Generator, CCA and Lighthouse bring new shows, along with a youth response to Tramway's Claire Barclay installation, screenings of this year's Jerwood/FVU Award winners this year and events from DCA, Good Press and more. Read more »| 21 Mar 2017 -
Music
Scottish Gigs of the Week: 21-27 Mar
Glasgow welcomes gig upon gig for the 6 Music Fringe, while over in Edinburgh highlights include Grandaddy, Onra and IDLES Read more »| 21 Mar 2017
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Music
Live music in Manchester this week: 22-28 Mar
From locals Shaking Chains to international Afrobeat hero Tony Allen, this week's gig calendar in Manchester springs into life with summat for everyone Read more »| 21 Mar 2017 -
Music
PINS – Bad Thing EP
Manchester five-piece PINS have been sharpening their rock nous for some time now, impressing with their previous two records Girls Like Us and Wild Nights. ... Read more »| 21 Mar 2017 -
ClubsSean Johnston on A Love From Outer Space
The co-founder of the long-running A Love From Outer Space club night alongside legendary producer Andrew Weatherall, Johnston reflects on five years of success, and lets us know what the duo have in store for 2017 Read more »| 21 Mar 2017 -
Books
Elan Mastai: "Time travel is a very human thing"
Esteemed screenwriter and author Elan Mastai journeys through time in his new novel All Our Wrong Todays. He tells The Skinny what he himself would travel back to fix and why our present is so easily reimagined as a dystopian future Read more »| 21 Mar 2017 -
Music
Dutch Uncles @ The Dancehouse, Manchester, 15 Mar
Juxtapositions between performers and venue rarely come as stark and obvious as this: a band as sprightly as Dutch Uncles performing in the unassuming grande... Read more »| 20 Mar 2017 -
Music
Desperate Journalist – Grow Up
In a garden, a teenage Jo Bevan faces the camera. The dappled sunlight and party dress are immediately at odds with her band-to-be's brooding aesthetic. And ... Read more »| 20 Mar 2017 -
Music
Micah P. Hinson – Everlasting Arms (Track Premiere)
Listen to a Micah P. Hinson track from his new split 12'' on Song, by Toad, out later this week Read more »| 20 Mar 2017 -
Music
Craig Finn – We All Want the Same Things
If with The Hold Steady, it felt like Craig Finn was writing the Great American Novel – a sprawling, intertwining narrative of familiar characters and ... Read more »| 20 Mar 2017 -
Music
Spiral Stairs – Doris and The Daggers
Lesser-spotted? The term doesn’t quite do justice to Scott Kannberg, who here emerges from hibernation for his first record in eight years. Last seen d... Read more »| 20 Mar 2017