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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Artkennardphillipps: Protest as Practice
kennardphillipps describe their beginnings rooted in political protest, the hours of work that goes into getting that incisive moment of montage, and their latest programme of public workshops as part of Edinburgh Art Festival Read more »| 01 Aug 2015 -
ArtEdwin Burdis @ Jupiter Artland
Entering the long narrow room of Burdis’ The Thickening is to be confronted immediately with a series of vividly coloured, large paintings. Subject mat... Read more »| 01 Aug 2015 -
Clubs
DJ Dave Haslam on his new book Life After Dark
DJ Dave Haslam muses on clubbing culture past and present ahead of the release of his latest book, Life After Dark: A History of British Nightclubs & Music Venues Read more »| 31 Jul 2015 -
ArtThe Skinny Showcase: Victoria Ruane
The Skinny Showcase: Victoria Ruane Victoria Ruane is a photographer from Wigan, who graduated this year with a BA (Hons) Photography from Manchester School... Read more »| 31 Jul 2015 -
BooksUs Conductors by Sean Michaels
We must declare a conflict of interests here. Author Sean Michaels was, once upon a time, a writer for The Skinny, so a sense of solidarity has us willing a ... Read more »| 31 Jul 2015 -
Music
Northwest Music News – 31 Jul: More from Liverpool Music Week
Liverpool Music Week adds more names, Outfit's Andrew Hunt announces new music and there's some heavy Digital Crate Digging for your ears... Read more »| 31 Jul 2015
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Books
Limmy's Daft Wee Interview
The Skinny braves the dark mind of Glasgow comedy hero Limmy to learn a little more about his new book: the appropriately titled Daft Wee Stories Read more »| 31 Jul 2015 -
Film
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
The Mission: Impossible series now feels a fair distance away from Brian De Palma’s dark, brooding 1996 effort. Five films and nearly two decades in, E... Read more »| 30 Jul 2015 -
Books
Author Yuri Herrera on 'the American problem that Mexico is suffering'
The literary voice of Mexican author Yuri Herrera transcends his native land and tongue, crosses the U.S. border – so significant in his writing – and forces the wider world to listen. We chat ahead of his date with Edinburgh International Book Festival Read more »| 30 Jul 2015 -
Music
Gig & Music Festival Highlights – August 2015
See Oneohtrix Point Never score Manga, Sufjan Stevens makes his long-awaited return to Edinburgh, and a bounty of awesome hits Electric Fields Read more »| 30 Jul 2015 -
Music
Destroyer – Poison Season
How do you follow a masterpiece? You go ahead and make another one. That’s been Dan Bejar’s tactic anyway, with his latest Destroyer release refl... Read more »| 30 Jul 2015 -
Books
Rhyme and Reasons: Poetry picks for Edinburgh Festival
Looking through the 2015 Festival line-up – including a Skinny sponsored Kate Tempest event – 2015 StAnza Poet in Residence Clare Mulley ponders that elusive theoretical point on the arts spectrum between 'poetry' and what is now known as 'spoken word' Read more »| 30 Jul 2015 -
Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – August 2015
Rare opportunities arise to see Micachu, Sufjan Stevens and a revival of a concert piece by Arthur Russell performed by original members of the ensemble Read more »| 30 Jul 2015 -
Art
RESOURCE @ The Bluecoat
From tins of paint to a piracy library, The Bluecoat's current exhibition, RESOURCE, brings together a host of divergent practices offering audienc... Read more »| 30 Jul 2015 -
Film
Killing Zoe
It’s easy to guess why audiences are turned off by Roger Avary. He won an Oscar co-scripting Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, but if his two dir... Read more »| 30 Jul 2015