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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FilmNorthwest Film Event Highlights – November 2015
This month's film highlights include artists' films, animation and amour Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
Music
Lanterns On The Lake – Beings
Beyond the success of 2013's Until the Colours Run, Newcastle's Lanterns On The Lake continue to maintain their commitment to producing high quality sou... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
MusicFloating Points – Elaenia
As one of the well-known faces of Shoreditch’s now defunct Plastic People nightclub (further alumni include Caribou and Four Tet), Floating Points&rsqu... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
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HEALTH / Apostille @ Stereo, Glasgow, 26 Oct
It’s just gone quarter to eight in a half packed Stereo on a dreary Glasgow night, but looking at the hyperactive Michael Kasparis it might as well be ... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
Music
Detour Scotland announce 6th birthday gigs
Detour Scotland have unveiled details of Sixfest, a six-day series of gigs across Scotland featuring Happy Meals, Bdy_Prts and more. Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
MusicFOUND – Cloning
Over their various iterations, Edinburgh collective FOUND have reshaped and overhauled their sound accordingly. Now down to a bare-bones two piece after the ... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015
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Music
Disappears – Low: Live In Chicago
Philip Glass aside, why on earth would anyone choose to take on Bowie’s Low? There is context: the opening of last year’s Bowie exhibition i... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
MusicUSA Nails – No Pleasure
Let's get it out of the way: USA Nails are a post-hardcore supergroup featuring members of the British underground scene’s finest acts of the past deca... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
Music!!! – As If
!!! – the band so obnoxiously named that knowing how to pronounce the symbols certifies you a know-it-all and will possibly see you eschewed at parties... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
Music
David Mackenzie & Tony Doogan – Starred Up: Film Music Reworked
Even with the film fresh in mind, you could be forgiven for responding to news of Starred Up: Film Music Reworked with the question: what film music? Within ... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
Music
Parquet Courts – Monastic Living EP
Parquet Courts have been busy on the road, and they want you to know. Monastic Living is a surprisingly chaste title for a compilation of thoughts from a tou... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
Music
Holy Sons – Fall of Man
For a man who once admitted to taking drugs every day since he was 16, Portland songwriter and drummer Emil Amos is a prolific musician. Claiming to have wri... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
Music
The Drink – Capital
If BBC Four’s recent history of indie music has piqued your interest about a world of shy boys with bowl cuts and girls with hair slides then London tr... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
Music
Bill Wells And Friends – Nursery Rhymes
Reworked nursery rhymes, you say? Recorded by musical catalyst Bill Wells alongside collaborators old and new? Ok, whatever. Yo La Tengo announce their prese... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
Music
Steeple Remove – Position Normal
Originally available digitally or on import, the French experimentalists’ fifth long player – out in their homeland at the beginning of the year ... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015