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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MusicA Week in Records: Lee Bannon, Sleaford Mods, Prefuse 73...
As the music world is battered into line with a new international album release date each Friday, our Music team present a weekly digest of five recommendations, from Ninja Tune stalwart Lee Bannon to latter-day firestarters Sleaford Mods Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
MusicAdrian Younge presents – Twelve Reasons To Die II (starring Ghostface Killah)
"Ayo I’m back blowin’ dust off the vinyl, I got twelve more reasons to die, snap your spinal," Ghostface Killah raps, announcing the second insta... Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
Music
Admiral Fallow – Tiny Rewards
There’s something crystalline about Tiny Rewards: maybe it’s frontman Louis Abbott’s clear tenor reaching upwards (paired often with Sarah ... Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
Music
C Duncan – Architect
"I’ll take you everywhere I go … I’ll take you everywhere I know," C Duncan sings on Here To There. By the time we get to this track, on t... Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
Clubs
Nozinja on Shangaan Electro and signing to Warp
Now signed to Warp, Soweto-based producer Nozinja is set to unleash the 180bpm sugar kick of Shangaan Electro on the UK once again Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
Film
Song of the Sea
Back in February, Song of the Sea was memorably described by one Oscar voter as “that obscure freakin’ Chinese fuckin’ thing that nobody ev... Read more »| 06 Jul 2015
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Film
Dear White People
Arriving on UK shores 18 months after its Sundance debut, US comedy Dear White People is all too relevant in light of the increasingly publicised troubles of... Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
Film
Chappie
Neil Blomkamp's career has, so far, been a lot like Tim Burton's, except played out over just three films rather than three decades. Both begin life as block... Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
Music
An Asphalt Haunting: Introducing Man of Moon
Young Edinburgh two-piece Man of Moon have been enticing audiences for a while. But now, with their debut single The Road/This World about to be released, lunar orbit beckons Read more »| 03 Jul 2015 -
Art
Phyllida Barlow: Staging an Occupation @ The Fruitmarket
Phyllida Barlow's current Fruitmarket Show sees her bring her monumental and spectacular sculpture to the Edinburgh Art Festival with great success Read more »| 03 Jul 2015 -
Books
Simon Napier-Bell on the unscrupulous history of the music business
The ultimate observer of the music business, Simon Napier-Bell talks us through its pharmaceutically fuelled history as chronicled in his all-encompassing book Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay Read more »| 03 Jul 2015 -
Clubs
Greg Wilson Talks Manchester Nightlife - Legend Nightclub: A Brief History
DJ Greg Wilson harks back to the heart of the original jazz-funk scene in Manchester, and the club where it all started – Legend Read more »| 03 Jul 2015 -
ArtThe Skinny Showcase: Mary Watson
“My work explores the competitive nature of human beings. I am particularly interested in how we invent activities to express our obsessions and how we... Read more »| 02 Jul 2015 -
Clubs
Clubbing Highlights Scotland – July 2015
July’s schedule boasts the buoyant sounds of Den Haan in Glasgow, first rate techno from DJ Bone in the capital and Sven Weisemann’s visit to Aberdeen. Read more »| 02 Jul 2015 -
BooksWolf in White Van by John Darnielle
With his debut novel, John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats fame takes the soft, melancholy lyricism of his music and draws it out into a strange, sad novel. ... Read more »| 02 Jul 2015