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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MusicMo Kolours – Mo Kolours
Half Mauritian and half English, Mo Kolours uses his cultural heritage as the starting point for an album of laid-back genre experimentation on his self-titl... Read more »| 24 Mar 2014 -
FilmFilm News: Arnie talks Terminator Genesis, Star Wars VII plot details revealed, and more
A round-up of this week's film news, with Arnold Scwarzenegger looking forward to Terminator: Genesis, details of the Star Wars VII plot unveiled, and rumours of a Game of Thrones movie Read more »| 21 Mar 2014 -
Film
Film Starred Up: Three minutes with Jack O’Connell
We grab a very quick chat with man of the hour Jack O'Connell while he's in Glasgow for the Scottish premiere of Starred Up at the Glasgow Film Festival Read more »| 21 Mar 2014 -
MusicOn Tour: Kate Bush to play rare live shows
Cult singer and icon Kate Bush will give a series of rare live performances in August and September at London's Hammersmith Eventim Apollo, it was annou... Read more »| 21 Mar 2014 -
Film
Blind Woman's Curse
Blind Woman’s Curse opens in the most breathtaking fashion. A Yakuza Clan, tensed and snarling in torrential rain, synchronise to reveal a full dr... Read more »| 21 Mar 2014 -
Art
Cross-Pollination: BCNMCR brings Barcelona design studios to the Northwest
Bringing 11 Barcelona-based design studios to the Northwest, exhibition and talk series BCNMCR aims to introduce us to work emerging from the Spanish city and forge links in the European design community. Event instigator David Sedgwick explains Read more »| 21 Mar 2014
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Music
The Notwist / Jel @ Mono, 16 March
Watching Anticon founder, Themselves and cLOUDDEAD beatmaker Jel play the MPC and sampler is like watching a gifted classical pianist attack the ivories &nda... Read more »| 20 Mar 2014 -
Music
Eagulls / Autobhan @ Nice N Sleazy, 7 March
Performing in a half-empty basement venue in Glasgow on a Friday night could intimidate some raw bands from out of town, but Autobahn display no sign of nerv... Read more »| 20 Mar 2014 -
MusicCloud Sounds #10: with Plaid, Fuck Buttons and The Pictish Trail
The latest instalment of our Music team's regular playlist also features new music from Optimo's JD Twitch, Odd Future's Frank Ocean collaborating with Mick Jones of The Clash, and Brainfeeder hip-hop crew The Underachievers Read more »| 20 Mar 2014 -
Art
Art News: Dennis J. Reinmueller shortlisted for Catlin Art Prize, Syria fundraiser at Nomad's Tent
A round-up of art news: Dennis J. Reinmueller shortlisted for the Catlin Art Prize, an update on the Nomad's Tent fundraiser for Syria, plus details of new exhibitions featuring Rachel Levine, David Shrigley, Thomas Anderson and more Read more »| 19 Mar 2014 -
FilmCreative Scotland appoints new Director of Film & Media
Scotland's arts funding body Creative Scotland have appointed Natalie Usher as their new Director of Film & Media, it was announced today. Usher will take up the post in early May Read more »| 19 Mar 2014 -
Film
Tom at the Farm
In its setup and execution, Tom at the Farm, the fourth film from Québécois wonderkid Xavier Dolan, is pure Polanski. The title character (play... Read more »| 19 Mar 2014 -
Books
Competition: Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival launch new Awards for writing
Details of a new writing competition set up by the Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival and Bipolar Scotland, looking for entries from poets, authors, journalists, bloggers, diarists and letter-writers Read more »| 19 Mar 2014 -
Film
The Double
Richard Ayoade deftly crafts humanist comedy from dark, Kafkaesque absurdity in his Dostoyevsky adaptation The Double. Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg... Read more »| 19 Mar 2014 -
Art
Art Screen, the BBC's new arts documentary festival for Glasgow
The BBC's Lindsey Hanlon gives us the lowdown on the just-announed programme of a new arts documentary festival coming to the Glasgow Film Theatre and the Centre for Contemporary Arts as part of Glasgow International in April - Art Screen Read more »| 19 Mar 2014