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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BooksBeatlebone by Kevin Barry
Kevin Barry's second novel, Beatlebone – adding to the author's collection of awards with the Goldsmiths Prize this year – marks a cont... Read more »| 10 Dec 2015 -
Music12 alternative Christmas albums
Our guide to festive records with a difference, featuring Low, Thea Gilmore, Snoop Dogg and more. Read more »| 10 Dec 2015 -
ArtMatthew Darbyshire @ Manchester Art Gallery
An article in the Independent on Sunday, found in a glass-fronted notice board in the entrance to Matthew Darbyshire’s An Exhibition for Modern Living,... Read more »| 10 Dec 2015 -
Art
Safe @ HOME, Manchester
The resounding question: "Are you allergic to the 21st century?" HOME has responded to Todd Haynes’ thought-provoking 1995 film, Safe, providing artis... Read more »| 09 Dec 2015 -
MusicMikal Cronin – Turn Around (live at Le Guess Who?)
Watch this live performance from Mikal Cronin's Utrecht performance – a one-off show, backed by strings and horns, exclusively for this year's Le Guess Who? festival Read more »| 09 Dec 2015 -
Music
2015's finest sounds from the Northwest
Our writers and artists including Outfit, Kepla and ILL get together to discuss some of the best noise from the Northwest over the past 12 months Read more »| 09 Dec 2015
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Music
Django Django / Stealing Sheep / RM Hubbert @ Barrowland, 3 Dec
The Barrowland doors have been open just 30 minutes when RM Hubbert takes to the stage. Only a few dozen or so punters have made it up the stairs, but the ma... Read more »| 09 Dec 2015 -
Books
Points of Origin by Diao Dou
'There are those who would say that tales of the fantastic can come only from the times of Apuleius or Kafka,' suggests Diao Dou in his newly translated coll... Read more »| 09 Dec 2015 -
Music
C Duncan @ Pleasance, 4 December
A Mercury nod – and with it a breakneck ascent to hot topic status – has barely fazed C Duncan and his band, still as humble and charming as the ... Read more »| 09 Dec 2015 -
Clubs
Mr. Scruff's alternative Christmas playlist
Throw another log on the fire and get down with this irregular Christmas playlist, courtesy of Andy Carthy aka Mr. Scruff Read more »| 09 Dec 2015 -
Books
Filmish by Edward Ross
Aiming to act as a 'graphic journey through film' – charting both the evolution of the medium and the theory surrounding it – the most ... Read more »| 08 Dec 2015 -
Art
This Week in Scottish Art: WASPS & EAMIF
The week might have started high with the Turner Prize, but there's plenty more to get into over the next week, including Edinburgh Artist Moving Image Festival and a host of one-off events across Scotland. Read more »| 08 Dec 2015 -
Books
On Cats by Charles Bukowski
Like Bukowski. Love cats. Like people who love cats. Bukowski loved cats. Felt that with the best of them, 'each movement slides through space without fricti... Read more »| 08 Dec 2015 -
Music
The Spook School / Chorusgirl / Joyce Delaney @ Nice n Sleazy, 6 Dec
Jangle pop’s detractors have always had it wrong, the well-worn dismissals (fey; ineffectual) failing to comprehend the strong seam of egalitarianism s... Read more »| 08 Dec 2015 -
Film
Terence Davies interview: making Sunset Song
Terence Davies has been trying to adapt Lewis Grassic Gibbon's classic Scottish novel Sunset Song for over 15 years. We catch up with the Liverpudlian filmmaker on the eve of its release to find out why he persevered to bring it to the screen Read more »| 08 Dec 2015