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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MusicSuper Adventure Club search for a feel good hit of the summer
On a day off from recording, Bruce Wallace and Mandy Clarke of Super Adventure Club battle hangovers and heatwaves to debate the summer’s singles. “The horse will be here in 5 minutes,” Bruce casually explains, “but we can get started…” Read more »| 01 Aug 2013 -
MusicWickerman 2013: Saturday, 27 July
With temperatures soaring, Book Group keep their cool to deliver an accomplished set in the GoNorth tent. The ringing guitars and witty – but ofte... Read more »| 01 Aug 2013 -
ArtOur Top 5s for the Edinburgh Festivals
Our section editors skillfully (and painstakingly) narrow their Edinburgh Festival picks down to a tick-'em-off-as-you-go top 5 – and so it begins... Read more »| 01 Aug 2013 -
MusicSurf City – We Knew It Was Not Going to be Like This
Following a fairly lengthy hiatus, New Zealand’s Surf City pick up more or less where they left off on 2010’s Kudos. Luckily, said debut inhabite... Read more »| 01 Aug 2013 -
Clubs
Tell Me No L.I.E.S.: Ron Morelli on wax and NYC
With his Long Island Electrical Systems imprint forging a defiantly individual path through modern dance music, label boss Ron Morelli talks keeping it in the family, 'knackered house' and the lack of good wax Read more »| 01 Aug 2013 -
Music
Wickerman 2013: Friday, 26 July
The impact of the July heatwave can be seen everywhere. Behind the bar in one pub near Partick Cross there’s a chalkboard proclaiming that staff will n... Read more »| 01 Aug 2013
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Theatre
Venue of the Month: Unity Theatre, Liverpool
Liverpool's Unity Theatre may look humble, but with its long and noble history of using theatre to engender social change, it’s anything but. We look ahead to its autumn season Read more »| 01 Aug 2013 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: August 2013 Horoscopes
ARIES Finally you go on that holiday to Thailand hoping to find yourself. Instead you end up finding bits of yourself in the hotel shower plug hole after con... Read more »| 01 Aug 2013 -
Clubs
Redressing the Balance: Introducing Nightrave
As she prepares to welcome Parisian ghetto house player Big Dope P to Glasgow, DJ and producer Nightwave gives us the low down on her fledgling club event Read more »| 01 Aug 2013 -
Music
Ras_G – Back on the Planet
Ras_G's first album for Brainfeeder since 2009's Brotha From Another Planet is a perfect, psychedelic hybrid of dusty LA beat-scene boom-bap and the cosmic j... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Clubs
Clubbing Highlights Scotland – August 2013
Ahead of a particularly alluring month, we cast a bleary eye over the August schedule to pick out gems including hip hop turned house maestro Andrés, techno goodness from Jerome Hill and Jeff Mills, and jazz-flavoured electronics from LA’s Thundercat... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Film
Serial Mom
Beverly Sutphin is the perfect wife, the perfect mother, and “f*cking nuts!” Queer cinema hero John Waters’ deliriously dark slice of seria... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Comedy
Choose Your Own Goddamn Fringe Adventure
A thrilling adventure in which YOU are a reviewer for The Skinny. Can you battle your way through the mayhem of the Fringe without getting fired? Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Art
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Belgian Pavilion @ Venice Biennale
In the darkened space of the Belgian Pavilion a massive wax form rests horizontally across the gallery floor –artist Berlinde De Bruyckere’s cast... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Art
Yuri Ancarani @ The Encyclopedic Palace, Venice Biennale
Yuri Ancarani's video in the Arsenale is not for the squeamish: the piece Da Vinci takes place in an operating room. The title comes from a human-controlled ... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013