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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ArtThe Week in Scottish Art - kennardphillipps & more
From Hospitalfield's open weekend to the culmination of kennardphillipps' Edinburgh Art Festival show, we run through the best of the week's art exhibitions and events. Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
ClubsDave Clarke on White Noise 500 and the politics of EDM
Never short of a controversial opinion, Dave Clarke has influenced everyone from Daft Punk to post-punk torchbearers The Soft Moon. We journey out to Dublin for the 500th episode celebration of White Noise, his legendary, agenda-setting radio show Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
MusicNorthwest Gig Highlights – September 2015
Behold! The month of psych is here, with Liverpool Psych Fest dominating proceedings, while we also have a rather special event up our sleeves Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
Music
Scottish Gig Highlights – September 2015
In a month of indie rock heavyweights, Future Islands face off with Baltimore housemates Dope Body at the Barras, Tame Impala swing down on Glasgow from their cosmic plane and Mac DeMarco turns the ABC into a slacker den Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
BooksNorthwest Book Highlights – September 2015
Controversial and political figures hit Manchester and Liverpool as Richard Dawkins and Margaret Atwood come to town, while Gladfest invites audiences to share their own opinions Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
Film
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl – we meet the cast
A YA weepy centred on a terminally ill teen might have some reaching for the sick bucket, but Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, dubbed "the Citizen Kane of teen cancer tearjerkers" by one US critic, is a different breed. We meet its talented young cast Read more »| 01 Sep 2015
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Film
Closed Curtain
Jafar Panahi’s semi-documentary This Is Not a Film visualised and articulated his plight after a draconian sentence from the Iranian government (regard... Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
FilmMe and Earl and the Dying Girl
While escaping the social hell that is high school with his best friend and 'co-worker' Earl (RJ Cyler), our lead protagonist Greg (Thomas Mann) unexpec... Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
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Northwest Film Event Highlights – September 2015
There's a flurry of repertory screenings this month thanks to Scalarama's month-long cinephilic celebrations, as well as the return of Sheffield's Sensoria and the Northwest premiere horror festival, Grimmfest Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
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Paisley Digital Art Project fuses creativity and science
The town of Paisley has announced its inaugural Digital Art Commission, a £25,000 grant to create a piece of artwork for the town which explores the relationship between art and technology, to boredomresearch. Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
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Interview: Paul Robertson - Lust for Change
Self-taught curator Paul Robertson speaks candidly about public funding and loud printing presses. Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
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Scottish Art News for September 2015: What's Oak
Sogol Mabadi, Theo Shields and Nicolas Deshayes exhibit in galleries across Scotland this month. Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
Books
Wind/Pinball: Two Novels by Haruki Murakami
With Wind/Pinball, Japanese author Haruki Murakami finally grants his first two novels a UK release. Read more »| 31 Aug 2015 -
Music
Low – Ones and Sixes
Feel that? It’s floating in between the aeons that pass between chords. It’s the haunting harmonies that shiver from the lips of Alan Sparhawk an... Read more »| 31 Aug 2015 -
Books
Oscar Coop-Phane: Feeling so Bohemian
Oscar Coop-Phane talks about new novel Tomorrow, Berlin and the dark experiences which birthed it. Read more »| 31 Aug 2015