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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ArtArt from Elsewhere @ GoMA, Glasgow
Hayward Touring have two major exhibitions currently making the rounds in the UK. The first, Listening, explores the act of listening through 17 contemporary... Read more »| 01 Jan 2015 -
ArtTransmitting Andy Warhol @ Tate Liverpool
Rather than focusing on a particular genre of Warhol’s immense output, the packed Transmitting Andy Warhol exhibition includes more than 100 works and ... Read more »| 01 Jan 2015 -
Clubs
Northwest Clubbing Highlights – January 2015
A fairly sparse month in clubbingdom as people across the land try to keep their resolution not to get completely arseholed Read more »| 01 Jan 2015 -
FilmScotland Film Event Highlights – January 2015
A new year of cinema kicks off with a series of adventure docs and a celebration of teen movies Read more »| 01 Jan 2015 -
Film
Northwest Film Event Highlights – January 2015
This month's best movie happenings include hippos dancing to Ponchielli, a celebration of teen movies, and superhero puppets Read more »| 01 Jan 2015 -
Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – January 2015
Justin Townes Earle and BC Camplight warm the frosty cockles; Independent Venue Week atones for the rampant capitalism of Christmas, and Canada invades Read more »| 01 Jan 2015
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Clubs
Jon Hopkins @ The Warehouse Project, 12 December
The fervour with which Immunity, Jon Hopkins' album of summer 2013, is still met is quite something: eyes roll back to the fissuring whip and crackle of We D... Read more »| 01 Jan 2015 -
Music
Francis Lung @ Sacred Trinity, 18 December
In its own low-key way, Tom McClung’s progression from ash-choked backing vocalist and bassist in WU LYF has been as fascinating as that group’s ... Read more »| 01 Jan 2015 -
BooksNorthwest Book Highlights – January 2015
The local book club is on the ascent – we pick a few of the best, while events include Knausgaard and Renberg in an evening celebrating Scandinavian writing Read more »| 01 Jan 2015 -
Music
Scottish Gig Highlights – January 2015
Right, enough’s enough. If you insist on validating the passing of yet another twelve months by making a resolution to be less of a shithead this year,... Read more »| 01 Jan 2015 -
ArtAlasdair Gray: Sphere of Influence II @ The Reid Gallery
As part of the Alasdair Gray season, Glasgow School of Art have mounted in their Reid gallery a small selection of works by Alasdair Gray, which is then lite... Read more »| 01 Jan 2015 -
Books
Gothenburg Book Fair: Looking for the next big thing
Can we expect a 'feelgood' future post Nordic noir? Everyone is attempting to predict literary trends at Scandinavia’s largest book fair, where gangster rap memoirs, long lost leftist tomes and feminist comics vie to be the next big hit Read more »| 31 Dec 2014 -
Books
The Alphabet of Birds by S. J. Naudé
SJ Naudé's short story collection The Alphabet of Birds tells tales of the South African diaspora, of people hurled from home and scattered across the... Read more »| 31 Dec 2014 -
Books
Wolf Winter by Cecila Ekbäck
Rather than being a translation, Cecilia Ekbäck’s debut was written in English straight off, but the rhythm can feel as if someone has Tippex... Read more »| 30 Dec 2014 -
Film
Enemy
Very much a mood piece, this enigmatic offering from Denis Villeneuve is set beneath a canopy of tangled streetcar lines in an oppressively foggy Toronto. It... Read more »| 30 Dec 2014