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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ArtThey Had Four Years @ Generator Dundee
Entering They Had Four Years, Generator’s pick of last year’s degree shows, a loud mechanical thrumming emanates from a go-kart made from an old ... Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
BooksStop the Clocks: Natasha Pulley on The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
As Natasha Pulley releases her acclaimed debut novel, The Skinny talks to her about history writing itself and finding her feet in the present Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
FilmNorthwest Film Event Highlights – July 2015
This month there's a chance to relive the summer of 96 at the movies, compare two twisted takes on American suburbia and catch a doc on the rise of ear-bashing industrial rock Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
MusicLee Bannon – Pattern of Excel
Turns out this’ll be the last album from the artist formerly known as Lee Bannon; from now on he’ll be working under the name “¬ b&rdqu... Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
ArtUCLan Fine Art Degree Show: Exposé
‘Exposé’ is the theme of UCLan’s Fine Art Degree show. It’s unclear whether this is a strict theme, or just nominal, but as an... Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
Music
Scottish Gig Highlights – July 2015
It's festival fever this month as T In The Park, Kelburn Garden Party and Wickerman return, while Wild Beasts play Edinburgh and Cannibal Ox visit Glasgow. Read more »| 30 Jun 2015
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Comedy
The bunny-boiler's book: Jessie Cave interview
Jessie Cave talks to The Skinny about her new book Love Sick and upcoming Fringe show I Loved Her Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
Art
The heart is deceitful above all things @ HOME, Manchester
I moved from London to Liverpool aged ten and started a new primary school. In the playground, on the first day, a group of girls waved a copy of Smash Hits ... Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – July 2015
A Heavenly Records showcase, the strung-out psychedelic shimmer of The Holydrug Couple plus the beats of Femi Kuti and Nubiyan Twist – it’s a blissed-out July in the Northwest Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
Books
The Cartel by Don Winslow
Don Winslow’s The Power of the Dog was an epic fictional dissection of the US-Mexican drug wars, rightly regarded as a modern classic of crime fiction.... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Books
The Well of Trapped Words by Sema Kaygusuz
In 2013, Sema Kaygusuz addressed the Edinburgh International Book Festival and spoke of the transitional qualities of literature, especially across linguisti... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Music
Under the Influence: Failure on The Cure, Big Star, Blonde Redhead and more
Returning from a 17-year break with a cosmic odyssey titled The Heart Is a Monster this month, the reactivated LA space rock trio reveal the albums that make up their DNA. Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Film
Chasing Amy: Asif Kapadia on his Amy Winehouse documentary
Asif Kapadia's latest documentary charts the rise and premature demise of controversial soul singer Amy Winehouse. We talk to the sharp-eyed director about the film’s genesis and challenges ahead of its UK premier Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Film
A Letter to Three Wives
Like the following year's All About Eve, this 1949 mega-hit was adapted from fiction published in the pages of Cosmopolitan. It too is a whip-smart melodrama... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Film
Story of My Death
Albert Serra’s mischievous allegory for the death knell of the Enlightenment and the dawning of Romanticism is a truly singular work. Serra expresses t... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015