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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FilmSightseers
Ben Wheatley’s absurdist Sightseers plays out like a trainspotters' Badlands. There's great wit at play as we follow simmering sociopath Chris and... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
MusicAriya Astrobeat Arkestra – Towards Other Worlds
The second LP from Leeds’ Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra continues where their self-titled 2010 debut left off; the nine-piece’s musical ancestry rem... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
MusicThe Scantharies – The Scantharies
On paper, The Scantharies is a somewhat eccentric project: Andy Dragazis, an Anglo-Greek songwriter, set out to create a greatest hits compilation for an i... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
ArtThe Turner Prize 2012
Back in Tate Britain this year after its sojourn to the Baltic, the Turner Prize features Spartacus Chetwynd, Luke Fowler, Paul Noble and Elizabeth Price Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
Art
Joep Van Liefland @ Duchy Gallery
In the Michel Gondry film Be Kind Rewind, a magnetised Jack Black accidentally erases all the tapes in Mos Def's video store. In a harebrained attempt to con... Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
Music
Duglas T. Stewart on what it means to be a BMX Bandit
Scottish indie legend Duglas T. Stewart speaks about his 26 year career as frontman of BMX Bandits, their conceptual new LP and the film about the band Kurt Cobain wanted to join Read more »| 23 Nov 2012
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Film
End of Watch
Writer/director David Ayer returns to his well-worn law enforcement stomping ground with End of Watch, a foul-mouthed, boneheaded and really quite unpleasant... Read more »| 23 Nov 2012 -
Film
Laurence Anyways
Xavier Dolan certainly isn't lacking in confidence. Fortunately, he has the talent to match it. The young director's third feature, Laurence Anyways, ... Read more »| 23 Nov 2012 -
MusicBEAK> / Thought Forms @ Stereo, 17 November
Fellow Invada signings Thought Forms kick off proceedings with a distortion and reverb-drenched squall of grungy, post-rock noise. With their dual guitars an... Read more »| 22 Nov 2012 -
Comedy
Rob Rouse: Opinionated with Facts
Rob Rouse marks the birth of his second child with a show that's "utterly unsuitable for children," coming to The Stand in Edinburgh and Glasgow Read more »| 22 Nov 2012 -
Music
School of Seven Bells – Put Your Sad Down EP
As the name suggests, the latest EP from Benjamin Curtis and Alejandra Deheza’s neo-shoegaze project represents a shift away from the more melancholy... Read more »| 22 Nov 2012 -
Music
Various Artists – The Ambient Zone: Just Music Cafe Volume 4
The latest installment in the Just Music Cafe compilation series gathers contributions from artists across the globe, responding to a commission to compos... Read more »| 22 Nov 2012 -
Music
Swans / Sir Richard Bishop @ The Arches, 16 November
Michael Gira's ambitions for this particular live incarnation of Swans are not modest: the set clocks in at around two hours and from the gentle opening &nda... Read more »| 21 Nov 2012 -
Music
Scott Walker – Bish Bosch
Many felt that Scott Walker's curious investigation into the outer limits of contemporary songcraft had reached its ultimate culmination with his harrowing... Read more »| 21 Nov 2012 -
Music
Fiona Soe Paing – Tower of Babel EP
Fiona Soe Paing's second solo EP is a tough-but-sensual slice of modern electronica. Filtered samples struggle for breath against a stark backdrop of synth... Read more »| 21 Nov 2012