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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MusicThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 1 November
In today's Bulletin: The music world pays tribute to Lou Reed; Scottish film studio plans complicated by US TV show Outlander; The Scotsman picks the 50 best novels of the last 50 years, and Foals' Yannis Philippakis hits out at Spotify Read more »| 01 Nov 2013 -
Theatre
The Jazz Club Murder @ Oran Mor
The sweet sound of the trumpet fills the air as a good old fashioned 'whodunnit' takes to the Òran Mór stage in James Runcie’s The J... Read more »| 01 Nov 2013 -
TheatreForced Entertainment @ Tramway
Forced Entertainment's two performances in Glasgow probe into completely different themes and remarkably contrasting styles of performance. The Coming... Read more »| 01 Nov 2013 -
ClubsPressure Turns 15
We chat to frequent guest Ben Sims, newcomer Hans Bouffmyhre and residents Slam, ahead of the legendary club night’s birthday celebrations… Read more »| 01 Nov 2013 -
Comedy
Testing: Claudia O'Doherty
The wide-eyed comedian comes to Manchester to spread her knowledge of this fair isle with the cream of the crop of young stand-ups Read more »| 01 Nov 2013 -
Music
OvO – Abisso
Halloween may be done with for another year, but there are plenty of long nights ahead; plenty of inky witching hours crying out for a suitably unsettling so... Read more »| 01 Nov 2013
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MusicSynthetic Pleasures: Ubre Blanca in conversation
Formed from the ashes of Shitdisco and Divorce, synth enthusiasts Ubre Blanca discuss their debut EP, retro-futurism, and Glasgow's alternative music scene Read more »| 31 Oct 2013 -
Music
Suede / Teleman @ Barrowlands, 27 October
Between the present tour slot and the Bernard Butler-produced debut album due next year, Teleman have been enjoying Suede-related patronage for a while now. ... Read more »| 31 Oct 2013 -
Music
Chantal Acda – Let Your Hands Be My Guide
Though billed as her first ‘real solo record’ (following a trio of softly sumptuous slowcore releases under the Sleepingdog moniker), Chantal Acd... Read more »| 31 Oct 2013 -
Music
Home Comforts: Wooden Shjips' Ripley Johnson on Back to Land
If previous album West was a story of outward-looking horizons, then Wooden Shjips’ follow-up Back to Land retreats to the familiar – and there’s nothing wrong with that, argues Ripley Johnson Read more »| 31 Oct 2013 -
Art
With: @ Rogue Studios, Manchester
From artists Nicola Dale, Julie Del’Hopital, Annie Harrison, Sarah Sanders, Jenny Steele and Jacqueline Wylie, With: is the result of a series of discu... Read more »| 31 Oct 2013 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: November 2013 Horoscopes
ARIES This month God breaks millennia of silence to speak directly to you, telling you that he thinks you probably have schizophrenia and you should get some... Read more »| 31 Oct 2013 -
Comedy
Opinion: Comedy – A Serious Business
Is comedy respected as an art form? Andrew Learmonth makes an impassioned plea for Scotland to take its comic storytellers seriously Read more »| 31 Oct 2013 -
Music
Sebastien Tellier – Confection
France’s Sebastien Tellier has always been a difficult figure to pin down. Having worked with Daft Punk, Mr Oizo and the legendary Nigerian drummer Ton... Read more »| 31 Oct 2013 -
Music
Guido – Moods of Future Joy
Guido is a producer associated with the 'purple wow' sound which diverged from dubstep in the later part of the 2000s. An important landmark in the developme... Read more »| 31 Oct 2013