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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MusicSky Larkin – Motto
Every track on Motto could serve as a fine introduction to Sky Larkin’s brand of dynamic indie rock – and given neither The Golden Spike nor Kale... Read more »| 04 Sep 2013 -
MusicKing Khan and the Shrines – Idle No More
This Berlin-based collective, known for their anarchic live performances, combine influences including Sun Ra, James Brown, the Velvet Underground and the Mo... Read more »| 04 Sep 2013 -
MusicRM Hubbert – Breaks & Bone
Stripping arrangements back to one man and a guitar again (after the broader, guest-filled canvas of Thirteen Lost & Found), Breaks & Bone firmly und... Read more »| 04 Sep 2013 -
MusicJesu – Everyday I Get Closer To The Light From Which I Came
2011's Ascension showcased the guitar-led melancholia present on past Jesu staples, but it lacked the awe-inspiring sense of atmosphere that made Justin Broa... Read more »| 04 Sep 2013 -
MusicManic Street Preachers – Rewind the Film
With five singers and a musical style that veers from folk, through motown via euphoric indie rock and back to cinematic brooding, the Manics' eleventh album... Read more »| 04 Sep 2013 -
Music
CHVRCHES – The Bones Of What You Believe
CHVRCHES full-length debut is one of the most eagerly anticipated releases of 2013, partly due to the familiarity of such slices of perfect synth-pop as The ... Read more »| 04 Sep 2013
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Music
Crystal Stilts – Nature Noir
Nature Noir – New York post-punks Crystal Stilts' third LP in the decade they’ve been together – may shed some of the bluesier element... Read more »| 04 Sep 2013 -
Art
Stage and Intervention: SPACE IS NOT A VOID at The Royal Standard
A new exhibition at The Royal Standard in Liverpool seeks to question both the notion of collage and the very space it occupies. Curator Madeline Hall introduces us to exhibiting artists Laura Aldridge, Emily Musgrave and Lauren Printy Currie Read more »| 03 Sep 2013 -
Music
David Byrne & St. Vincent @ Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 29 Aug
The suit’s closer fitting and his hair’s long silvered over, but otherwise the David Byrne standing on the Concert Hall’s stage tonight is ... Read more »| 03 Sep 2013 -
Music
Under the Influence: Jason Newsted
Raised in Metallica's ranks for 14 years, one of heavy metal's great ambassadors presents a personal guide to “some of the building blocks of what our music has become." Strap in... Read more »| 03 Sep 2013 -
Music
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – Fly By Wire
With their moniker’s flippancy presumably lost in translation, glibly christened indie-poppers Someone Still Love You Boris Yeltsin were recently invit... Read more »| 03 Sep 2013 -
Music
Laeto drummer Robbie Cooper unveils Human Is Not Alone
To show his gratitude towards Marie Curie Cancer Care, Robbie Cooper’s Human Is Not Alone has enlisted the cream of the Scottish underground (and beyond) for fundraising gigs and a 16-track compilation. We find out more about its background and goals Read more »| 03 Sep 2013 -
Books
Real Imagined Things: Adam Marek on The Stone Thrower
Prize-winning author Adam Marek talks about The Stone Thrower, exploring parenthood and childhood through a series of dystopian, near-future worlds Read more »| 03 Sep 2013 -
Music
Seams – Quarters
The debut LP from James Welch, a Berlin-based British producer, moves beyond the understated tone of his previous work towards a more explicitly dancefloor-o... Read more »| 03 Sep 2013 -
Comedy
Fred Fletch's Student Quiz
Tests, from maths quizzes to STD checks, are exciting. Show our quiz that no one learns harder than students Read more »| 03 Sep 2013