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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TheatreScottish Opera's Macbeth @ King's Theatre (Edinburgh)
For a relatively inexperienced opera-goer, the pared-back darkness of Dominic Hill’s Macbeth is an incredibly bracing experience Read more »| 28 May 2014 -
MusicTaylor McFerrin – Early Riser
Taylor McFerrin, eldest son of soul legend Bobby McFerrin, has signed to Brainfeeder, and it's an excellent fit; more to do with his carefully slack beat-wor... Read more »| 28 May 2014 -
Theatre
On Tour: Borderlands
To celebrate the 30th year of their existence, Dudendance take on the outdoors with their latest physical theatre production called Borderlands. As the title suggests, this involves a series of site-specific performances in the Scottish Borders Read more »| 28 May 2014 -
Music
clipping – CLPPNG
If you're eagerly anticipating the return of punk-rap terrorists Death Grips; if Kanye's Black Skinhead wasn't feral and intense enough to give you the feels, then LA's clipping are for you Read more »| 28 May 2014 -
MusicMartyn – The Air Between Words
Martyn's debut album Great Lengths was a standout in the first wave of post-dubstep. 2011's Ghost People, on Brainfeeder, was more restless and exp... Read more »| 28 May 2014 -
MusicFucked Up – Glass Boys
From their sprawling 75 minute debut to 2011's double LP David Comes to Life, Fucked Up have always presented themselves as an atypical punk band despite their expletive-dropping name Read more »| 28 May 2014
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Art
ECA Degree Show 2014: Making Space
If the thought of exposing your soul to the chin-stroking scrutiny of the public makes you want to curl up and hide then you will appreciate the feat bravely... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
Music
Nine Inch Nails @ The SSE Hydro, 20 May
Slinking on stage through mist to the sinister strains of The New Flesh, Trent Reznor somehow has everything and nothing to prove here tonight. With a track ... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
Music
Roll the Dice – Until Silence
Until Silence’s lingering power stems from its galvanising contrasts. For instance, the way the uncompromising Coup De Grace (a visceral combination of... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
Music
Chris Devotion and The Expectations – Break Out
Break Out is both a title and a statement of intent for Chris Devotion. Together with his band, he's earned a considerable rep around Glasgow as a thrilling ... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
MusicParquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal
There’s an uneasy cheeriness in the way Andrew Savage utters “I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe” towards the end of Instant Dissassembly’s naggingly repetitious seven minutes, ten songs into Parquet Courts’ addictively disquieting third LP Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
Music
Alpha Male Tea Party – Droids
Whoever thought up such a ridiculous genre name as ‘math rock’ anyway? It’s just counting. No sums involved. No challenge, unless you find ... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
Music
King Buzzo – This Machine Kills Artists
They said it couldn’t happen. They said it shouldn’t… oh, OK. We’re fibbing. Still, after 31 years and 19 Melvins albums, it seems o... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
Music
The Phantom Band – Strange Friend
Three and a half years is a long time to wait for a Phantom Band record. The Wants, a dark, brooding beast, was unleashed on listeners still punch-drunk from... Read more »| 27 May 2014 -
Music
Sage Francis – Copper Gone
Sage Francis returns with a new album on Scroobius Pip's Speech Development, putting paid to the notion that his step back from the constant grind of touring was also the point at which he hung up his mic Read more »| 27 May 2014