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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MusicMac DeMarco @ O2 ABC Glasgow, 7 September
Glasgow may have just killed Mac DeMarco. The rambunctious singer has launched himself above the eager masses pressed against the barrier of the O2 ABC stage... Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
ClubsHelena Hauff: DJ Chart
Eight of Hamburg DJ Helene Hauff's favourites, from Privacy to Morphology to Unit Moebius. Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
ArtChinese art from the 1970s to now @ Whitworth
I’m looking at a vast monochromatic screen print, Untitled (Three Leaders) (1989), a trio of figures with a familiar and foreboding Chairman Mao at the... Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
MusicSealings – I'm A Bastard
Moody, minimalist, mal-illuminated… well yes, we may have been travelled this way before. Yet however derivative such disenfranchised narratives can a... Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
Music
Dark Buddha Rising – Inversum
Following on from 2013's sprawling Dakhmandal, Finland's Dark Buddha Rising return with a new lineup for fifth LP Inversum. It's an album of two halves; comp... Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
Music
The Garden Party 2015: The Review
With Dutch Uncles, LoneLady and many more in tow, Leeds Garden Party is an end-of-summer excursion, one wistful look back before the autumn arrives. Read more »| 08 Sep 2015
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Music
Natalie Prass @ Electric Circus, Edinburgh, 2 September
There’s a Venn diagram somewhere that overlaps folk-rock with that tedious signifier of overly-tasteful coffee-tableism known as ‘AOR’. On ... Read more »| 08 Sep 2015 -
Art
This Week in Scottish Art: Events Every Day
Every day this week, there are screenings, exhibition openings and film festivals to catch across Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen – here's our rundown of what to expect. Read more »| 08 Sep 2015 -
Music
Girl Band – Holding Hands With Jamie
Having checked that yes, this is an album – and not a cake made by hyper-active children with every conceivable ingredient thrown somewhere in the gene... Read more »| 08 Sep 2015 -
Music
Tom Araya on Repentless, fame, and Slayer's legacy
Frontman Tom Araya discusses the losses of Jeff Hanneman and Dave Lombardo, the breakdown of their relationship with Rick Rubin, and his uncomfortable relationship with their legacy Read more »| 07 Sep 2015 -
Music
C Duncan Interviewed: Bedroom to Box Office
We chat with Glaswegian virtuoso C Duncan about turning a one-man, one-year labour of love into an arresting, unmissable live act Read more »| 07 Sep 2015 -
Music
Glen Hansard – Didn't He Ramble
Didn’t He Ramble is Glen Hansard’s second solo release, but far from his second outing. He’s recorded with The Frames and The Swell Season ... Read more »| 07 Sep 2015 -
MusicNicolas Godin – Contrepont
Quite mad and all the better for it, the solo debut from the Air man is a dizzying journey down the rabbit hole of his crazed imagination. Contrepont plays w... Read more »| 07 Sep 2015 -
Books
Bloody Scotland: The Case of the Book Festival
Russel D. McLean investigate Bloody Scotland, the annual gathering of our finest criminal authors. Read more »| 06 Sep 2015 -
Art
Exhibitions in Liverpool and Manchester, Sep 2015
From HOME's new show to some unusual taxidermy, check out our art highlights in Liverpool, Manchester and beyond this September Read more »| 04 Sep 2015