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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BooksAll the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
It feels as though Evie Wyld may be writing the kind of novel series that is tied together not by recurring characters or plots, but by landscapes, themes an... Read more »| 13 Jun 2013 -
TheatreThe Man Who Woke Up Dead @ Waterside Arts Centre, Manchester, 27-29 Jun
Inspired by film noir, Hitchcock, and Orwell’s classic 1984, The Man Who Woke Up Dead is a dark and richly compelling thriller that sets out to challen... Read more »| 13 Jun 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 12 June
Crowd-fund a Mo' Wax retrospective; Kraftwerk recording next LP; listen to Kveikur by Sigur Rós; goNORTH stage lineup announced for Wickerman Festival; plus music from James Holden, Black Sabbath, Poliça, David Lynch, Com Truise and more Read more »| 12 Jun 2013 -
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Fucked Up / Titus Andronicus / METZ, SWG3, 28 May
“Can we kill these lights, please?” METZ guitarist / vocalist Alex Edkins asks bluntly, rejecting unnecessary theatrics as the Canadian... Read more »| 12 Jun 2013 -
Clubs
Matias Aguayo returns with The Visitor
After five years of travelling and collaborating, Matias Aguayo is finally ready to let us meet his hosts – with crisp, propulsive new LP The Visitor Read more »| 12 Jun 2013 -
Music
μ-Ziq – Chewed Corners
Planet Mu founder and UK electronic music veteran Mike Paradinas returns with a new album under his revered μ-Ziq guise, his first under that moniker sinc... Read more »| 12 Jun 2013
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Music
Kamikaze Shoegaze: Sonic Hearts Foundation in interview
Rising stars of the Glasgow live scene, indie shoegazers Sonic Hearts Foundation tell us about their guerilla gigs, insane pedal arrays, and their new EP, Into Forever Read more »| 11 Jun 2013 -
MusicMatthew Herbert – The End of Silence
Utilising a single ten-second audio recording as the sole sound source for an entire LP, Matthew Herbert has created one of his boldest and most thought-prov... Read more »| 11 Jun 2013 -
Music
Anna Von Hausswolff – Ceremony
If you think the title of Ceremony’s opening instrumental Epitaph of Theodor sounds grandiose, wait till you hear its brooding church organ melody... Read more »| 11 Jun 2013 -
ArtThe Skinny Showcase: Flo Gordon
Showcase: Flo Gordon All my work is a stew. Here are the ingredients: * 200g Humour/Subconscious Humour A lot of my work has sprouted from an aversion to t... Read more »| 11 Jun 2013 -
Books
All The Little Guns Went Bang, Bang, Bang by Neil Mackay
“Blood’s everywhere,” says Pearce Furlong, one of the two 11 year old protagonists in Neil Mackay’s splendid debut. “Most peopl... Read more »| 10 Jun 2013 -
Art
Jeremy Deller @ The Venice Biennale
The notion that the work presented by each country at the Venice Biennale is somehow a reflection of its national identity is these days pretty defunct. But ... Read more »| 10 Jun 2013 -
Art
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 10 June
In today's Bulletin: Tributes roll in for late author Iain Banks; Alan Cumming speaks out on the Creative Scotland scandal at the CATS awards; plus new music from Clark, Sigur Rós, James Holden, Run The Jewels, Kurt Vile, Bibio and more Read more »| 10 Jun 2013 -
Music
Mount Eerie, Nice 'n' Sleazy, 21 May
The endearing Phil Elverum returns to Glasgow for the first time since last Septmber’s Ocean Roar, in which he and others put in further work... Read more »| 10 Jun 2013 -
Art
Psychedelic Safari: Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show 2013
On our tireless quest for emerging talent we journey to the Central Belt degree shows and scan the plain for infinite marvelous spectacles. Ok, maybe not tireless... Read more »| 10 Jun 2013