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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MusicThe Waterboys @ Ross Bandstand, Edinburgh 28 August
By the time the Waterboys take the stage a thick crowd huddles for warmth, stretching almost back to the railings of Princes Street Read more »| 03 Sep 2015 -
FilmRobert Sheehan: Returning to the Supernatural
The Misfits star discusses The Messenger, where he plays an unwashed weirdo who can speak to the dead. Read more »| 03 Sep 2015 -
Music
Ratking @ Manchester Deaf Institute, 26 August
As the jazzy and soporific opening strains of Snow Beach announce Ratking’s arrival, it’s clear that in a live context, the NYC trio's unique son... Read more »| 03 Sep 2015 -
Art
Open for Business @ Street Level Photoworks
Nine international photographers take an idiosyncratic look at UK industry in Open for Business. Read more »| 03 Sep 2015 -
ClubsScottish Clubbing Highlights – September 2015
Dekmantel at The Art School, Marcellus Pittman at The Berkeley Suite, Theo Kottis at Cabaret Voltaire. Read more »| 03 Sep 2015 -
Clubs
Northwest Clubbing Highlights – September 2015
Forget summer – it barely showed up anyway. Autumn's a season you can rely on, and here it comes, right on time. Ladies and gentlemen: September! Read more »| 03 Sep 2015
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Music
Antonio Forcione and Adriano Adewale at Assembly George Square, 23 August
Plenty in the George Square Assembly One crowd tonight have seen guitarist (and 2001 ‘Best Spirit of the Fringe Award’ winner) Antonio Forcione a... Read more »| 03 Sep 2015 -
Music
Ubre Blanca – The Sadist EP
Sinister, portentous, unsettling… From the artwork's red skull to each isolated synth motif, the John Carpenter/Claudio Simonetti trappings of the Gla... Read more »| 03 Sep 2015 -
MusicJulia Holter – Have You In My Wilderness
It’s a pertinent circumstance that Julia Holter’s plush new album arrives just in time for the passing of summer and the slow-crawl in to the dar... Read more »| 03 Sep 2015 -
Music
Golden Void – Berkana
How big are your riffs? In the case of Bay Area quartet Golden Void, the answer is delivered without apology; all seven tracks comprising Berkana hark back t... Read more »| 03 Sep 2015 -
Music
Kurt Vile – b’lieve I’m goin down
Perhaps the natural meeting point between the gloomy Smoke Ring For My Halo and 2013’s more robust Wakin On A Pretty Daze, b’lieve I’m goin... Read more »| 03 Sep 2015 -
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Slayer – Repentless
The metal titans return with a composed, if unoriginal, new record that belies their recent turmoil Read more »| 03 Sep 2015 -
Books
Poetry News: Bard is a Four-Letter Word
StAnza poet in residence Clare Mulley contemplates beginnings in her first poetry column. Read more »| 02 Sep 2015 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: September 2015
Worm-men, single-celled amoeba and zombie apocalypses: your horoscope for September 2015. Read more »| 02 Sep 2015 -
Music
Battles – La Di Da Di
Thank God for Battles. First emerging in the mid-noughties, theirs was a brand of fiery, frenetic art rock unlike any other: experimentalism charged with a s... Read more »| 02 Sep 2015