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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FilmWhat Fifty Shades can learn from Secretary
Inspired by GFF’s screening of Steven Shainberg’s Secretary and this month’s release of the Fifty Shades sequel, we look at the lessons the modern spankbuster could learn from the 2002 cult classic. Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
MusicClap Your Hands Say Yeah – The Tourist
Think of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and you'll likely remember their eponymous debut album from 2005, characterised by Alec Ounsworth's distinctive warble on t... Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
Clubs
Glasgow Clubbing Highlights: 9-15 Feb
Minimal Wave label boss Veronica Vasicka brings the sounds of synth wave to Glasgow this weekend, plus The Poetry Club kicks off a new residency and Denis Sulta gives us a reason to hit the dancefloor on Valentine's Day Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
ClubsEdinburgh Clubbing Highlights: 9-15 Feb
Cabaret Voltaire plays host to both Jasper James and London-based talent Route 94 this weekend, while Nightvision bring the ever-popular Eats Everything to The Liquid Room Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
TheatreTouch Me @ Traverse Theatre
As the audience files into a packed-out auditorium in the Traverse Theatre, an abandoned duvet lies forlornly in the centre of the stage. Once everyone has t... Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
Books
StAnza 2017 preview: Strong Words, Strange Times
Our poetry columnist provides a run-down on Scotland's international poetry festival, StAnza, featuring such luminaries as Costa Prize-winner Alice Oswald, T.S Eliot prize winner Sarah Howe and our Makar Jackie Kay Read more »| 08 Feb 2017
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Music
Dutch Uncles – Big Balloon
Dutch Uncles are an odd bunch. Like fellow Mancunians Everything Everything or American counterparts Battles, the four-piece communicate in their own hyper-c... Read more »| 08 Feb 2017 -
Music
DIY Music in Leeds: JUX Festival 2017 & more
The problem with festival line-ups, and why we need more events like Leeds’ annual JUX Read more »| 08 Feb 2017 -
ComedyRachel Jackson on CHUNKS & her Bunny Boiler vlogs
Rachel Jackson on her BBC Three shorts for Valentine's Day, Chunks and being the former icon of Irn-Bru Read more »| 08 Feb 2017 -
Music
Live music in Liverpool this week: 8-14 Feb
The Arch Drude returns! Plus classical adventures from Manchester Collective, politically-minded pop from Cabbage and a whole mess of other delights... Read more »| 08 Feb 2017 -
Music
Alien Landscapes: Wild Nothing interview
Jack Tatum talks frustration, expectation and evolution as Wild Nothing prepare to wrap up their Life of Pause tour with their biggest UK shows yet Read more »| 08 Feb 2017 -
Clubs
Bicep @ SWG3, 3 Feb
Andy Ferguson and Matt McBriar, aka Bicep, head a stellar line-up at SWG3 in Glasgow Read more »| 08 Feb 2017 -
Theatre
Dance International Glasgow reveals 2017 line-up
The programme for the second Dance International Glasgow (DIG) festival has been unveiled ahead of the biennial's return this spring Read more »| 08 Feb 2017 -
Music
QUICK – Barber's Song: Track Premiere
Winners of Celtic Connections' Danny Kyle Award 2016, QUICK are set to launch their debut EP This I Know on Feb 25 via Holy Smokes Records. The Glasgow trio,... Read more »| 08 Feb 2017 -
Music
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds announce 2017 UK tour
Nick Cave and co will hit the road for a string of UK arena shows this September Read more »| 08 Feb 2017