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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MusicBdy_Prts @ Bloc+, 24 November
Remnants of dry ice circulate behind The Skinny's eyeballs as we blink through the ethereal, ruby light of Bloc+. Read more »| 27 Nov 2015 -
TheatreBeyond @ St Andrew's Square, 26 Nov
Recent years have seen a rise in the number of quality Australian circus acts. La Clique’s Velvet, Casus Circus’s Jerk, Strut & Fret’s ... Read more »| 27 Nov 2015 -
BooksJohn Freeman interview: Arrival
After leaving Granta under a cloud, internationally renowned literary critic John Freeman returns to the limelight with Issue 1 of his new publication Freeman's, featuring writers as vital and varied as Haruki Murakami, David Mitchell and Lydia Davis. Read more »| 27 Nov 2015 -
Art
Gift Guide: Fine Art in Scotland
Make full use of the Christmas markets and specialist art and design shops around Scotland when making valuable gift decisions this year Read more »| 27 Nov 2015 -
FilmFilms of 2015: Criminally Overlooked Movies
We'll be revealing our films of 2015 in our December issue, but before then, here are some of what our Film team believe to be the year's most overlooked movies Read more »| 27 Nov 2015 -
Books
Poetry News – Scotland, December 2015
2015 has been a fine and fit year for poetry – here we first look back at key moments on both page and stage, then forward to what 2016 holds. Plus there's the small matter of some major spoken word events for you to attend between now and then Read more »| 27 Nov 2015
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FilmScottish Film Event Highlights – December 2015
Yes, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens will be dominating cinemas from 18 Dec, but it’s not just droids we’re looking for. There are plenty of other great film events on offer this month – and not just Christmas movies Read more »| 27 Nov 2015 -
Film
Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD
Documentary charting the history of punky UK comic book 2000AD Read more »| 27 Nov 2015 -
Books
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
'This what it feels like to be a fan: curious, open, desiring for connection, to feel like art has chosen you, claimed you as its witness.' In her long form ... Read more »| 27 Nov 2015 -
Books
Michel Faber wins Saltire Book of the Year Award
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber has been named Book of the Year at the 2015 Saltire Literary Awards in Edinburgh Read more »| 26 Nov 2015 -
Music
Jess and the Ancient Ones – Second Psychedelic Coming: The Aquarius Tapes
Taking the 'does what it says on the tin' approach to album titles, the Finnish sextet’s second long player isn’t going to win many awards for st... Read more »| 26 Nov 2015 -
Music
Hollie McNish, Eugene Kelly set for Liverpool show
Spoken word star Hollie McNish joins Eugene Kelly of the Vaselines, Pete Wylie and more on a bill mixing live poetry and music at Liverpool's LEAF in January, programmed by Edinburgh collective Neu! Reekie!. Read more »| 26 Nov 2015 -
Music
Yacht – I Thought The Future Would Be Cooler
YACHT (it stands for Young Americans Challenging High Technology) have punishingly cool credentials: describing themselves variously as an 'avant-garde karao... Read more »| 26 Nov 2015 -
Comedy
Funny Looking Presents a New Liverpool Comedy Night
Comedy superfan Gav Cross tells us why he wants to bring a more obscure type of comedy to the streets of Liverpool, with new comedy night Funny Looking Presents Read more »| 26 Nov 2015 -
Music
jennylee – right on!
If you check the liner notes to right on!, you’ll find a Lindberg on bass and a Mozgawa on the drums… but this is no Warpaint record. Jenny... Read more »| 26 Nov 2015