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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ClubsGlasgow Clubbing Highlights: 12-18 October
Red Bull Music Academy returns to Glasgow this weekend with a string of shows, lectures and workshops - elsewhere, Hieroglyphic Being plays a live set at The Art School, and Trouw resident Job Jobse joins Red Axes at Sub Club Read more »| 12 Oct 2016 -
FilmManchester Queer Media Festival reveals programme
The full programme has been announced for the third annual Queer Media Festival, which will take place at HOME, Manchester on 5 November. Read more »| 12 Oct 2016 -
Comedy
Monkey Barrel: Comedy Spotlight
Monkey Barrel Comedy has rolled into its own home on Blair Street, and here Ben Verth tells us about his plans for Edinburgh's new comedy club Read more »| 11 Oct 2016 -
MusicArchitecture and Chirality: Meet XamVolo
One of the most hotly-tipped acts in Liverpool right now, singer/producer XamVolo's star continues to rise steadily. We chat sunglasses and architecture with a true R'n'B original Read more »| 11 Oct 2016 -
Film
Watch a Where You're Meant to Be deleted scene
Watch Aidan Moffat at his foul-mouthed best as he prepares to give a performance at the Faslane peace camp in a scene that didn't make it into Where You're M... Read more »| 11 Oct 2016 -
ArtThis Week in Scottish Art: 11-17 Oct
It’s another busy week in Glasgow and Edinburgh with new exhibitions, a director’s talk at the Fruitmarket, film screenings at the CCA and GFT, and performance at Platform Read more »| 11 Oct 2016
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Music
Kate Tempest – Let Them Eat Chaos
Kate Tempest is becoming iconic in numerous artistic worlds, including hip-hop, spoken word and literature, with a Mercury Music Prize nomination for debut E... Read more »| 10 Oct 2016 -
Music
Holy Oysters – Holy Oysters EP
You might feel like all bands this year are psychedelic, but Parisian hipsters Holy Oysters tread a nice line between Phoenix-lite synthpop and slightly more... Read more »| 10 Oct 2016 -
Music
The Radio Dept. – Running Out Of Love
Swedish dream pop band The Radio Dept’s fourth album Running Out Of Love sees the band looking to make up for lost time. After a six-year absence enfor... Read more »| 10 Oct 2016 -
Music
Christian Löffler – Mare
The German artist's second album is a lovingly sculpted and likeable collection of electro moodworks. Recorded in a log cabin on the Darss peninsula in the n... Read more »| 10 Oct 2016 -
Clubs
Ivan Smagghe and Tim Paris on It's A Fine Line
We catch up with French production duo Ivan Smagghe and Tim Paris to discuss their eclectic London-based collaboration It's A Fine Line, ahead of their upcoming show at The Berkeley Suite Read more »| 10 Oct 2016 -
Music
Oozing Wound – Whatever Forever
These Chicagoan metallers have been referred to as ‘the Nirvana of thrash’, but if that means ‘mainstream breakout certainties&rs... Read more »| 10 Oct 2016 -
Books
Manchester Literature Festival: Stories from Korea
This year's Manchester Literature Festival hosts two writers from the Korean peninsula: Sungju Lee, whose memoir Every Falling Star relates his experiences a... Read more »| 10 Oct 2016 -
Music
TeenCanteen / BooHooHoo @ Sneaky Pete's, 30 Sep
Sneaky Pete's is extremely sold-out. It's TeenCanteen's party – and an album launch party, at that – so it's only right that they ... Read more »| 10 Oct 2016 -
Clubs
Back to Basics' new venue Church opens in Leeds
In their 25th year, Leeds' longest-running club night Back to Basics unveil their very own venue, Church. Read more »| 07 Oct 2016