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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BooksDrowntown: Book One, by Robbie Morrison and Jim Murray
Co-creator of Nikolai Dante and Japanese Dredd-spinoff Shimura, Robbie Morrison has been making an impact on UK and international comics since... Read more »| 24 Jun 2013 -
Music
Walton – Beyond
Walton moves away from the dubstep and garage sounds of his early EPs, broadening his scope to take in influences from house, techno and experimental electro... Read more »| 24 Jun 2013 -
FilmThe Act of Killing
Few films have explored the moral implications of murder as creatively and powerfully as The Act of Killing. Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary introduce... Read more »| 24 Jun 2013 -
MusicBass Clef @ Soup Kitchen, Manchester, 19 Jun
Ralph Cumbers is a multi-instrumentalist, but not a conventional one. His one-man show under the tag Bass Clef is a demonstration of brass and wind inst... Read more »| 24 Jun 2013 -
Film
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After Tony Manero and Post Mortem assayed General Pinochet’s dictatorship through the lenses of discomforting murder drama and icy satire respecti... Read more »| 24 Jun 2013 -
Books
The Quarry by Iain Banks
Eighteen-year-old Kit and his dad, Guy, live in a house on the edge of an expanding quarry. Kit has Asperger’s; Guy has cancer. It’s quite funny,... Read more »| 22 Jun 2013
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Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 21 June
A survey of the week's music stories: RM Hubbert takes home the Scottish Album of the Year Award; Four Tet is not Burial (... or is he?); new videos from DOOM, Fuck Buttons, METZ and more Read more »| 21 Jun 2013 -
FilmThis Is the End
This Is the End is like a Who’s Who of contemporary American comedy, with almost everyone who has graced an Apatow production in the past decade making... Read more »| 21 Jun 2013 -
Music
Bosnian Rainbows – Bosnian Rainbows
Former At The Drive-In / The Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López and Les Butcherettes founder Teri Gender Bender come from dist... Read more »| 21 Jun 2013 -
Art
Zoe Williams @ SWG3, until 6 Jul
The atmosphere’s heavy with incense, there’s an altar and the sound piece is paced at the rate of meditative breathing. Some controversial cultic... Read more »| 20 Jun 2013 -
Music
Loki – Edging God Out
The old retirement-and-comeback trick is a hip-hop staple, so how has it worked out for Loki, one of Scotland's most lyrically gifted writers and rappers?&nb... Read more »| 20 Jun 2013 -
Film
World War Z
World War Z is based on Max Brooks’ bestselling novel of the same name, a globe-trotting, multi-perspective document of a zombie apocalypse, rife with ... Read more »| 20 Jun 2013 -
Music
Austra – Olympia
Kate Stelmanis is a classically trained former opera singer but on album number two, Olympia, her voice imparts drama for its very lack of rhapsody. It&... Read more »| 19 Jun 2013 -
Music
NETVERK Podcast: June 2013
Exploring the world of netaudio, the NETVERK podcast returns to The Skinny. This month's show features a more guitar-flecked playlist than the last episode, with tracks from Sonic Hearts Foundation, CRIM3S, and Beacon Read more »| 19 Jun 2013 -
Music
Danny Brown @ The Arches, 15 June
Danny Brown's hyper-exaggerated caricature is in full effect tonight. From his mad-haired, gap-toothed appearance to his comically high-pitched voice, i... Read more »| 18 Jun 2013