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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MusicFuzzkill Records on Freakender 2016
Ross Keppie started Fuzzkill Records while living in Shetland in 2013. Three years and a move to Glasgow later, it's one of the hottest DIY labels in the country and co-running Freakender – a three-day festival of psych and garage rock Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
ArtIn Design: The Print Project
As part of our series looking at great design in the North, we speak to The Print Project, who've spent the last six years making stunning art... Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
Music
Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop @ RNCM, 31 Aug
Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop take to the stage of the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester as if burnished with gold. It might be a subtle effect achieve... Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
Film
Taika Waititi on Hunt for the Wilderpeople
From the set of Marvel's latest movie, Taika Waititi takes a break from shooting Thor: Ragnarok to discuss his thrilling indie coming-of-age film Hunt for the Wilderpeople Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
Art
CCA Highlights - Sep/Oct 2016
We’ve a couple of months of dissidence coming up at Glasgow’s CCA in September and October, with artists, musicians, indie labels and festival curators who are kicking back against the tentacles of capitalism and social inequality in our society Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
MusicEndless Adolescence: Teenage Fanclub vs TeenCanteen
Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub and Carla J Easton from TeenCanteen quiz each other on the power of Glaswegian harmonies Read more »| 05 Sep 2016
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Music
Teenage Fanclub – Here
For a while it looked like we’d heard the last of Teenage Fanclub. Shadows, released at the onset of their third decade together, found the band 'waiti... Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
Film
Matinee
Joe Dante's 1993 film Matinee, a celebration of art over war, movies over Armageddon, is the closest thing the Gremlins director has to a lost masterpiece. S... Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
Books
Turning Blue by Benjamin Myers
The new book from last year's Portico Prize winner is a tour de force of stark horror writing Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
Music
TeenCanteen – Say It All With A Kiss
Never ones to deny us of a singalong chorus, TeenCanteen’s debut album Say It All with a Kiss is packed full of infectiously catchy, sing-into-you... Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
Film
Scalarama 2016 Highlights
Born out of nostalgia for scurrilous London rep house the Scala, Scalarama has become one of the highlights of the UK's cinema calendar. We pick out some of the best screenings happening in Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester Read more »| 02 Sep 2016 -
Books
Hollie McNish's Charlotte Church factfile
Ahead of Charlotte Church's Late Night Pop Dungeon headlining this month's Neu! Reekie! Celts night at the National Museum of Scotland, poet Hollie McNi... Read more »| 02 Sep 2016 -
MusicSubcity Radio: September Selectors
University of Glasgow's Subcity DJs pick three tracks from Glasgow-based bands and producers to see in the new semester National Handbag – Leath... Read more »| 02 Sep 2016 -
Music
The Wedding Present – Going, Going...
Whether they’re drafting in Steve Albini to produce, cranking out a new single every month or releasing an album in which every song has an accompanyin... Read more »| 02 Sep 2016 -
Music
Shield Patterns – Mirror Breathing
'Touch me lightly, share / How you hate me and all the ways you care,' sings Claire Brentnall on Dusk, the opening track on the follow-up to Shield Patterns'... Read more »| 02 Sep 2016