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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ArtCCA Highlights – November/December 2015
The CCA lives up to its name this autumn with a fine spread of contemporary art, music, and film events – we big up some faves Read more »| 06 Nov 2015 -
FilmSean Baker on Tangerine and shooting on an iPhone
Tangerine is the most exciting and invigorating indie film of the year. Its director, Sean Baker, talks us through the ins and outs of creating this vivid slice-of-life comedy about two transgendre LA sex workers and capturing it all on an iPhone lens Read more »| 06 Nov 2015 -
Art
Ai Weiwei @ Royal Academy of Art, London
It’s Friday 23 October and I'm sat on a train from Manchester to London; I'm travelling to see an exhibition of work by China’s most recognisable... Read more »| 05 Nov 2015 -
Film
Tangerine
"Merry Christmas Eve, bitch!" So goes the opening line of Tangerine, a single-night screwball set on the West Hollywood strip that comes at you like a Jim Ja... Read more »| 05 Nov 2015 -
ArtToo Much Fun Club: The Skinny Showcase
The Too Much Fun Club (The TMFC) is a Visual Art Collective based in Edinburgh with connections worldwide. Read more »| 05 Nov 2015 -
Art
Life in A Chinese Art Village: Julian Tolhurst
Glasgow-based Canadian artist Julian Tolhurst discusses his three and a half years living, teaching and working as an artist in China Read more »| 05 Nov 2015
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MusicRustie releases new LP EVENIFUDONTBELIEVE
Glasgow producer Rustie has released his third album EVENIFUDONTBELIEVE online, after dropping a pair of tracks from the new record earlier this we... Read more »| 05 Nov 2015 -
ClubsSlimzee: DJ Chart
Ahead of his appearance for Electrikal at Edinburgh's Bongo Club, the grime don flags up 10 tracks that rarely leave his bag. Read more »| 05 Nov 2015 -
Music
The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle on Beat the Champ
As The Mountain Goats return to UK shores to promote wrestling-themed concept album Beat The Champ, John Darnielle tells us about morality and inspiration Read more »| 05 Nov 2015 -
Music
East India Youth / PIXX @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 28 Oct
Hannah Rodgers, recent 4AD signing operating as PIXX, opens our Wednesday escape with her dreamy, folksy psychedelia. Backed by a guitarist and another singe... Read more »| 04 Nov 2015 -
Music
Josh T Pearson @ Liverpool Music Week, 28 Oct
Four years on from his own second coming, Josh T Pearson is launching another resurrection in the unlikely but strangely apt surroundings of Liverpool’s Scandinavian Seamen’s Church. Read more »| 04 Nov 2015 -
Music
Joanna Newsom @ Albert Hall, Manchester, 31 Oct
At first glance, the Albert Hall’s stage is looking awfully bare tonight. The harp sitting dead centre is enough to remind us who’s in town, but there’s no backdrop – just the wood-paneled wall of the old chapel’s altar. Read more »| 04 Nov 2015 -
Theatre
The Oresteia @ HOME, Manchester
HOME’s staging of Aeschylus’ ancient tragedy The Oresteia is dark, strange and sharply relevant. In the third major production of The ... Read more »| 04 Nov 2015 -
Clubs
Scottish Clubbing Highlights – November 2015
This month we eagerly await 'Mad' Mike Banks with Depth Charge in Glasgow, Levon Vincent who hits Edinburgh, and UK legend A Guy Called Gerald, who's in Dundee Read more »| 04 Nov 2015 -
Film
The Naked Prey
Sixties survival thriller The Naked Prey sets off on a bad footing, with an uncomfortable voiceover that’s liable to trigger alarm bells in modern audi... Read more »| 04 Nov 2015