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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MusicLawrence English – Wilderness of Mirrors
A series of abstruse sonic abstractions? Or something, judging by its wholly prescriptive titling, more narratively inclined than that? The latest in a portf... Read more »| 01 Jul 2014 -
Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – July 2014
We’ve an unusual embarrassment of riches, including Ghostface Killah and The Twilight Sad in Liverpool, and Sleigh Bells in Manchester Read more »| 01 Jul 2014 -
MusicGig Highlights – July 2014
While the fields are infested, we seek our rock'n'roll, hip-hop and psych rock indoors Read more »| 01 Jul 2014 -
FilmNorthwest Film Event Highlights – July 2014
Plenty of opportunity to sample cinema in the outdoors this month, with Picnic Cinema kicking off and Screenfields back after its Wimbledon break Read more »| 01 Jul 2014 -
Music
Fink – Hard Believer
Fink's sixth album proper delves deeper into the bluesy territory that has long been his root source of inspiration; but by narrowing his scope to eschew the... Read more »| 01 Jul 2014 -
BooksFirst Time Solo by Iain Maloney
April 1943. Eighteen-year-old Jack Devine is bound south to London to start RAF training. He dreams of playing jazz, turning girls’ heads and flying Sp... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014
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Comedy
Crystal Baws: July 2014 Horoscopes
ARIESYour problems with premature ejaculation reach their peak this month when you blow your load the moment the tip of your penis enters the snake’s v... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
Clubs
Flock Together: Julius Steinhoff
Process is everything for Julius Steinhoff, co-founder of Hamburg's Smallville record label. He calls from his studio to discuss vintage synths, the delight of collaboration, and first LP Flocking Behaviour Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
Music
James Murphy, Swervedriver and more join East End Social finale weekend
Part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme (and a most welcome addition to the Scottish festival season), The East End Social and Chemikal Underground have ... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
Books
Happy are the Happy by Yasmina Reza
Yasmina Reza is well acquainted with the torments of the bourgeoisie; just watch her stage masterwork The God of Carnage for proof. So it's no surprise ... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
Comedy
Ask Fred: The Environment
This month our agony uncle turns green – whether that's going hippy or full Hulk remains to be seen... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
Music
Slow Club – Complete Surrender
Midway through Everything Is New, the second track on Complete Surrender, the strings and big, gospel-style vocals kick in. At that point the penny... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
Music
The Icarus Line – Avowed Slavery
Hot on the heels of last year’s slow-burning Slave Vows, California’s meanest return with five more slabs of molten psychosis for our sick pleasu... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
Music
The National Jazz Trio of Scotland – Standards Vol. III
On their third volume of Standards, Bill Wells’ mischievously christened National Jazz Trio of Scotland (actually a quartet, completed by vocalists Aby... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
Film
13 Sins
Hollywood’s cannibalistic cycle of consumption and regurgitation continues unabated, as yet another super Asian horror is chewed up, sucked of its crea... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014