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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MusicRas_G – Back on the Planet
Ras_G's first album for Brainfeeder since 2009's Brotha From Another Planet is a perfect, psychedelic hybrid of dusty LA beat-scene boom-bap and the cosmic j... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Clubs
Clubbing Highlights Scotland – August 2013
Ahead of a particularly alluring month, we cast a bleary eye over the August schedule to pick out gems including hip hop turned house maestro Andrés, techno goodness from Jerome Hill and Jeff Mills, and jazz-flavoured electronics from LA’s Thundercat... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
FilmSerial Mom
Beverly Sutphin is the perfect wife, the perfect mother, and “f*cking nuts!” Queer cinema hero John Waters’ deliriously dark slice of seria... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Comedy
Choose Your Own Goddamn Fringe Adventure
A thrilling adventure in which YOU are a reviewer for The Skinny. Can you battle your way through the mayhem of the Fringe without getting fired? Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Art
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Belgian Pavilion @ Venice Biennale
In the darkened space of the Belgian Pavilion a massive wax form rests horizontally across the gallery floor –artist Berlinde De Bruyckere’s cast... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
ArtYuri Ancarani @ The Encyclopedic Palace, Venice Biennale
Yuri Ancarani's video in the Arsenale is not for the squeamish: the piece Da Vinci takes place in an operating room. The title comes from a human-controlled ... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013
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Film
Northwest Film Event Highlights – August 2013
This month, Cricfest proves that cinema has the power to make a sport as boring as cricket compelling, while Picnic Cinema offer up two movies about going nuts in the great outdoors Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Film
Scotland Film Event Highlights – August 2013
As if Edinburgh didn't have enough festivals happening in August, Filmhouse delivers two more: Beyond Borders Scotland Film Festival and Just Festival. Other highlights include a sober Lindsay Lohan and David Bowie's codpiece Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Books
Snake Road by Sue Peebles
Snake Road is a family drama focusing on the lives of three women across three generations of the Copella family. In the top floor of the family home, grandm... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Music
O2 Love Music Column – August 2013
For over thirty years now, The B-52's (O2 ABC, 12 Aug) have poised themselves as the ultimate intergalactic, surf-pop, party band. It’s a notion that h... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Music
Sarah Neufeld – Hero Brother
Best known as violinist in Arcade Fire but having also supplied her talents to Bell Orchestre and The Luyas, Sarah Neufeld’s debut solo album is a natu... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
Art
Follow the Thread @ Dovecot
As part of Dovecot's centenary celebrations last year a significant tapestry was commissioned and, after over a year in the making, will be unveiled during E... Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Art
Turning FACT Inside Out @ FACT, Liverpool, until 15 Sep
Liverpool's Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT) reached double figures this year and is marking its tenth birthday with – true to form &n... Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Music
The Jesus Lizard's David Yow talks going solo
Having busied himself with acting and illustration in recent years, the inimitable David Yow marks a slight return to the music world by literally dropping his 'accidental' debut solo album like a slab of concrete this month. Don't expect any ballads Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Music
The Outer Church comes to Manchester
With tape splicer VHS Head at the helm, Joseph Stannard's Brighton-based night of spooked sonics, The Outer Church, comes to Manchester this month. We are happily indoctrinated into his diocese Read more »| 30 Jul 2013