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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ArtThis Week in Scottish Art: 7-13 March 2017
This week brings new exhibits from Arusha Gallery, Out of the Blue Drill Hall and Dovecot Studios, as well as talks at ECA and Meadow Mill Studios in Dundee and last chances to see shows at Embassy, The Modern Institute, and The Number Shop Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
ClubsNightwave: Redressing the balance in dance music
We catch up with Glasgow-based DJ and producer Maya Medvesek, aka Nightwave, to chat about her forthcoming EP release, her Producergirls workshops – and why we need to ditch the term 'female DJ' Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
MusicManchester's best record shops
From Northern Soul and The Smiths through to every sub-genre of dance music, there's no city better suited to an army of great record shops than Manchester. Here's our guide to where to pick up current releases, old classics and rarities Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
Film
Doc’n Roll Film Festival returns to Liverpool
Sleaford Mods, The Orb, The Melvins, Gregory Porter, Norwegian House, and Sparklehorse all feature in the three day festival Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
Art
Humber Street Gallery: The Skinny Showcase
At the heart of Hull UK City of Culture 2017 is a new contemporary art space, Humber Street Gallery Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
Music
The Pigeon Detectives @ Electric Circus, Edinburgh, 4 Mar
For many 20-somethings, The Pigeon Detectives will bring back fond memories of a golden age of indie, the ups and downs of which are still very visible today... Read more »| 07 Mar 2017
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Music
Thurston Moore @ Islington Mill, Salford, 3 Mar
Still is an appropriate name for tonight’s opening act. The solo project of Blacklung’s James Moffat, the aptness comes not from his on-stag... Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
Music
De La Soul @ Albert Hall, Manchester, 2 Mar
Manchester’s Albert Hall is the perfect venue for De La Soul. Much like the renovated Methodist chapel – complete with stained glass windows and ... Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
Film
First glimpse of Ewan McGregor in Fargo season 3
The Trainspotting star is looking a tad rough in his new role in FX television show Fargo Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
Music
The Shins – Heartworms
'It’s the means to a terrible end,' James Mercer sings about halfway through Name For You, the first track on the new album by The Shins – and he... Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
Music
Bill Drummond of The KLF set for Neu! Reekie!
Legendary artist, musician and all-round provocateur Bill Drummond is the first name revealed for the latest edition of avant-garde spoken word and multi-art... Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
Books
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
“Vain, weak, puerile, hypocritical, without manners, without social grace…” As America's literary voices steel themselves to document the ... Read more »| 06 Mar 2017 -
FilmWhat to Watch this Week: 6-12 March
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including The Love Witch, Elle and the second series of Netflix's Love Read more »| 06 Mar 2017 -
Music
Scottish Gigs of the Week: 7-13 March
Live music in Glasgow The Comet is Coming @ O2 ABC, 8 Mar Experimental cosmic funk inspired by everything from Sun Ra and Funkadelic to th... Read more »| 06 Mar 2017 -
Music
Nathan Fake – Providence
After a two year music-making hiatus, Nathan Fake returns with Providence, an album which sees him take his music in a new, and wholly unanticipated, directi... Read more »| 06 Mar 2017