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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MusicSigur Rós @ Edinburgh Playhouse, 15 August
As ever with Sigur Rós, the group's ethereal performances are as much about the visual as the aural. The gilt and plush scarlet surrounds of Edinburgh... Read more »| 23 Aug 2016 -
MusicLive music in Liverpool this week: 25-30 Aug
Stuck for live music this bank holiday? From rap superstars to punk weekenders, it's another busy week on Liverpool's ever-hectic gig circuit Read more »| 23 Aug 2016 -
Art
This Week in Scottish Art: 23-29 August
It's the final official week of the Edinburgh Art Festival, so head through for a last-chance look; meanwhile Glasgow has new openings, publication launches and events, while Dundee revisits ancient Athenian Xanthippe. Read more »| 23 Aug 2016 -
Film
What to Watch this Week (22-29 Aug)
The best films to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including the pilot of I Love Dick, the new film from Pedro Alm... Read more »| 23 Aug 2016 -
Music
Broken Records @ Summerhall, 20 Aug
Like returning comets, Broken Records shows don’t come around so often these days. Perhaps it’s the lesser-spotted nature of their live appe... Read more »| 23 Aug 2016 -
MusicSeparation Anxiety: Preoccupations on their rebirth
Preoccupations, the Canadian post-punk quartet formerly known as Viet Cong talk reinvention, forward movement and personal politics Read more »| 23 Aug 2016
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Music
Frank Ocean, Kanye West and the art of the surprise album
We want new music, and we want it now! But what's worse? Frank Ocean's ridiculously postponed record drop, or Kanye's confusion over The Life of Pablo? ... Read more »| 22 Aug 2016 -
Art
Camille Bernard: The Skinny Showcase
Filmmaker, set designer, painter: Camile Bernard certainly keeps herself busy, and in the work showcased here, she explores a certain disfigured innocence Read more »| 22 Aug 2016 -
Film
Best film screenings in the North (19-26 Aug)
The best film events happening in Liverpool, Leeds and Manchester this week, including The Passenger at HOME, Suspiria at FACT and Thelma & Louise a... Read more »| 19 Aug 2016 -
Art
Taxidermy collection profiled in Safestore video
A £40,000 collection of dozens of stuffed and taxidermied animals is among the obscure private collections featured in a new video series. London-base... Read more »| 19 Aug 2016 -
Music
Cowtown - Paranormal Romance
'Keep it to the point, you gotta keep it to the point,' Cowtown advise – vigorously – on appropriately titled track Motivational S... Read more »| 19 Aug 2016 -
BooksRon Rash: “In America we’re in such a dark place"
With his outstanding new work Above the Waterfall, the highly acclaimed US author Ron Rash tries to draw the 'wonder' from a snarling modern America. He talks about the novel here, and why while a proud Southern writer, don't precede that with 'just a' Read more »| 19 Aug 2016 -
Music
Video Premiere: 131 Northside - HORIZONS
Watch 131 Northside's moody, self-produced video for single HORIZONS, taken from debut EP Digital Memories 131 Northside – aka King Wavey and WTKAKACB... Read more »| 19 Aug 2016 -
Music
Track Premiere: Oh Well, Goodbye – Clandestine
Take a first listen to Clandestine by Oh Well, Goodbye, and read their track-by-track guide to new EP Swoon Comprising longstanding members of Liverpool's o... Read more »| 18 Aug 2016 -
Music
An Anxious Energy: Sweaty Palms interviewed
Sweaty Palms are an energetic four-piece garage rock band from the Southside of Glasgow who admit their music is inspired by drug-fuelled anxiety. They open up on fighting sexism, hating conservative bands and channeling negative energy Read more »| 18 Aug 2016