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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MusicC Duncan – Architect
"I’ll take you everywhere I go … I’ll take you everywhere I know," C Duncan sings on Here To There. By the time we get to this track, on t... Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
ClubsNozinja on Shangaan Electro and signing to Warp
Now signed to Warp, Soweto-based producer Nozinja is set to unleash the 180bpm sugar kick of Shangaan Electro on the UK once again Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
FilmSong of the Sea
Back in February, Song of the Sea was memorably described by one Oscar voter as “that obscure freakin’ Chinese fuckin’ thing that nobody ev... Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
Film
Dear White People
Arriving on UK shores 18 months after its Sundance debut, US comedy Dear White People is all too relevant in light of the increasingly publicised troubles of... Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
Film
Chappie
Neil Blomkamp's career has, so far, been a lot like Tim Burton's, except played out over just three films rather than three decades. Both begin life as block... Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
Music
An Asphalt Haunting: Introducing Man of Moon
Young Edinburgh two-piece Man of Moon have been enticing audiences for a while. But now, with their debut single The Road/This World about to be released, lunar orbit beckons Read more »| 03 Jul 2015
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Art
Phyllida Barlow: Staging an Occupation @ The Fruitmarket
Phyllida Barlow's current Fruitmarket Show sees her bring her monumental and spectacular sculpture to the Edinburgh Art Festival with great success Read more »| 03 Jul 2015 -
Books
Simon Napier-Bell on the unscrupulous history of the music business
The ultimate observer of the music business, Simon Napier-Bell talks us through its pharmaceutically fuelled history as chronicled in his all-encompassing book Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay Read more »| 03 Jul 2015 -
Clubs
Greg Wilson Talks Manchester Nightlife - Legend Nightclub: A Brief History
DJ Greg Wilson harks back to the heart of the original jazz-funk scene in Manchester, and the club where it all started – Legend Read more »| 03 Jul 2015 -
ArtThe Skinny Showcase: Mary Watson
“My work explores the competitive nature of human beings. I am particularly interested in how we invent activities to express our obsessions and how we... Read more »| 02 Jul 2015 -
Clubs
Clubbing Highlights Scotland – July 2015
July’s schedule boasts the buoyant sounds of Den Haan in Glasgow, first rate techno from DJ Bone in the capital and Sven Weisemann’s visit to Aberdeen. Read more »| 02 Jul 2015 -
Books
Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle
With his debut novel, John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats fame takes the soft, melancholy lyricism of his music and draws it out into a strange, sad novel. ... Read more »| 02 Jul 2015 -
Film
Pet Sights and Sounds: Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy
Love & Mercy tells the story of Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson without falling back on the many cliches of the music biopic. Director Bill Pohlad reveals how he brought the life of this troubled genius to the screen Read more »| 02 Jul 2015 -
Books
101 Detectives by Ivan Vladislavic
'How toxic are you?' is the formidable question raised by South African author Ivan Vladislavic in his latest short story collection. Vladislavic commentates... Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
Books
S.N.U.F.F. by Victor Pelevin
In this farcical utopia, esoteric Russian writer Victor Pelevin fast-forwards our current culture – where the lines between fact and fiction are i... Read more »| 01 Jul 2015