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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MusicViet Cong @ Deaf Institute, Manchester, 5 February
Viet Cong's live presence is a startling remove from the unremitting, blunt force of their debut album. That eponymous opening shot, a hard-boiled and unswee... Read more »| 11 Feb 2015 -
Music
BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah – Sour Soul
BADBADNOTGOOD’s vision has always been broad, but with Pretty Toney in tow this time it’s blinding. The Toronto jazz trio might have found wider ... Read more »| 11 Feb 2015 -
MusicFaith No More to release new album ‘Sol Invictus’ in May
Mike Patton and Faith No More have announced that their first new album in 18 years, entitled Sol Invictus, is due out later this year. The follow-up to 199... Read more »| 10 Feb 2015 -
BooksStation Approach: Jenn Ashworth and Richard Hirst on an interactive e-book inspired by Preston's Brutalist bus depot
As Jenn Ashworth releases her latest book, an interactive text co-written with collaborator Richard Hirst, The Skinny chats to the two authors about the notorious bus station behind its inspiration and why every story is unreliable Read more »| 10 Feb 2015 -
Clubs
Rødhåd: Layer by Layer
Ahead of his first trip to the Scottish capital, the German producer discusses his dystopian sound and how a background in architecture may have informed his approach to techno Read more »| 10 Feb 2015 -
FilmEsoteric Horror at GFF 2015
Are we going through a mini horror renaissance? Upcoming releases, including inventive slasher It Follows and allegorical animal-uprising oddity White God, suggest a resounding yes Read more »| 10 Feb 2015
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Music
Public Service Broadcasting – The Race for Space
Many wondered where Public Service Broadcasting could go from their debut; could such a unique concept ever be more than just clips from the British Film Ins... Read more »| 10 Feb 2015 -
Music
Dutch Uncles – O Shudder
O Shudder, the fourth album from art-pop five-piece Dutch Uncles is a bit frustrating, and the difference in the first two singles Decided Knowledge and In N... Read more »| 10 Feb 2015 -
Music
A Distant History: Idlewild mark their return with Everything Ever Written
On the eve of their 20th anniversary, Idlewild return from a five year break with new album Everything Ever Written. Roddy Woomble and Rod Jones tell us about the old days, new band members and where to draw the line with back catalogue embarrassment Read more »| 09 Feb 2015 -
Music
The Unthanks – Mount the Air
The much extolled olde-worlde storytelling of The Unthanks has won them an impressive array of famous admirers, everyone from Ryan Adams to Dawn French &ndas... Read more »| 09 Feb 2015 -
Film
Role Play: Director Peter Strickland on his latest unconventional project
Peter Strickland, the director of Berberian Sound Studio and Katalin Varga, is back bending genre and defying expectations with his new film, The Duke of Burgundy. Much to some YouTube commenters' annoyance, it's not about some French dude Read more »| 09 Feb 2015 -
Art
Own Art: The Scottish Gallery
Originally established in 1842 by Aitken Dott as 'Gilders, Framers and Artists’ Colourmen', The Scottish Gallery also exhibited and sold work by t... Read more »| 06 Feb 2015 -
Art
Futureproof @ Street Level Photoworks
In the Futureproof mix this year there is a fair whack of portraiture, yet the strongest work comes from the experimental projections of Jane Beran. Beran's ... Read more »| 06 Feb 2015 -
Art
Craig Mulholland @ Queens Park Railway Club
Craig Mulholland pairs high-finish works with looping atmospheric electro audio for Suspended Intervals in Queens Park Railway Club. Read more »| 06 Feb 2015 -
Music
Father John Misty – I Love You Honeybear
The working relationship between Josh Tillman and his stage alias Father John Misty is far from straightforward. The sardonic, navelgazing narrative of ... Read more »| 06 Feb 2015