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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MusicLove Is The Drug: St. Vincent Interviewed
After touring the world, joining the Nirvana reunion and releasing a stunning self-titled album, Annie Clark aka St. Vincent tells us how music became like a drug, why touring is like a hurricane, and how an artist's life becomes a reverent construct Read more »| 07 Aug 2014 -
ArtFree for All: An Unlikely Intro to Open Access Courses
Did you know you can study a course set by Harvard while sitting on your couch in your pants? No, neither did we Read more »| 07 Aug 2014 -
ArtCathy Wilkes @ Tramway
As part of the GENERATION series, Cathy Wilkes has curtailed the gigantic venue of Tramway 2 to create an intimately sensorial environment. Introve... Read more »| 07 Aug 2014 -
ArtGoing It Alone: Northwest Entrepreneurs on Sharing Advice and Skills
Forget all this talk of switching career – fulfil that aspiration to be your own boss. But where do you learn the entrepreneurial skills to turn an interest or hobby into something more? Read more »| 07 Aug 2014 -
Art
The Skinny Showcase: Fiona Beveridge
Showcase: Fiona Beveridge "My practice is an ongoing exploration of human-object interaction, working with material that is manufactured primarily to d... Read more »| 06 Aug 2014 -
Music
Chemikal, Numbers and The Wedding Present look forward to The Last Big Weekend
With the likes of Mogwai, HudMo, James Murphy and The Wedding Present onboard, The Last Big Weekend offers up two days of carefully curated food for the soul at Richmond Park in late August. We speak to some of the players involved Read more »| 06 Aug 2014
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Comedy
Crystal Baws: August 2014 Horoscopes
ARIESIn a bid to convince your new neighbours that they needn’t worry about you, you invite the whole street round for tea, biscuits and a three-hour P... Read more »| 06 Aug 2014 -
Music
The Bug – Angels & Devils
This isn't the Bug album you are expecting. By splitting the album in two, Kevin Martin addresses some big themes and shows himself to be a producer of remar... Read more »| 06 Aug 2014 -
Music
Rustie – Green Language
There's a playfulness to the opening sections of Green Language – we are treated to three false starts, Rustie delivering riffs of staggering infe... Read more »| 06 Aug 2014 -
Books
The Table of Less Valued Knights by Marie Phillips
Everyone’s heard of the Knights of the Round Table, but tucked away in the draughtiest corner of Camelot’s hall is the rarely-mentioned Table of ... Read more »| 06 Aug 2014 -
MusicThe New Pornographers – Brill Bruisers
Perhaps it’s just the afterglow imparted by the pristine, peppy power-pop that’s been their stock in trade for the last 15 years, but life in The... Read more »| 06 Aug 2014 -
Music
James Yorkston – The Cellardyke Recording and Wassailing Society
James Yorkston’s eighth album of original material finds the erudite Fifer facing up to mortality in his most sparse and contemplative album to date. Y... Read more »| 06 Aug 2014 -
Music
FKA Twigs @ Stereo, 29 July
At first, smoke clouds and back lighting sustain FKA Twigs’ mystery and unearthliness; that alien air steadily cultivated over the last 20-or-so months... Read more »| 05 Aug 2014 -
Clubs
Roman Flügel on Happiness is Happening
A man of many monikers, Roman Flügel seems increasingly content in one guise as he prepares to release a second album through Hamburg’s Dial label Read more »| 05 Aug 2014 -
Books
The Saltire Speakeasy comes to the Fringe
As the Saltire Society enters the Fringe with its Saltire Speakeasy series of events from 4-7 Aug, The Skinny takes a look at a diverse and international lineup of poetry, music and spoken word Read more »| 04 Aug 2014