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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MusicJohn Grant announces new album ‘Grey Tickles, Black Pressure’
US singer-songwriter John Grant has announced details of his third solo album Grey Tickles, Black Pressure, the follow-up to 2013’s Pale Green Ghosts. ... Read more »| 23 Jun 2015 -
ArtRugs, Birds and Yes Men: This Week in Scottish Art
Hospitalfield opens its doors and takes a good look at its gilded interiors, while Dundee goes print-mad and Edinburgh exhibits Gary Fabian Miller, who finds himself without the medium he's spent three decades exploring Read more »| 23 Jun 2015 -
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New Order announce new album ‘Music Complete’
New Order will release their first studio album in a decade this autumn, with Music Complete due for release this September. The new album will be the ... Read more »| 22 Jun 2015 -
Film
Forty Guns
In one of Forty Guns’ standout scenes, gunslinger-turned-lawman Griff Bonnell (Barry Sullivan) and cattle baroness Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck) ... Read more »| 22 Jun 2015 -
Film
Slow West
There’s a steely confidence to John Maclean’s debut feature, a lyrical fairytale in which a doe-eyed Scottish teen (Smit-McPhee) treks west in se... Read more »| 22 Jun 2015 -
MusicFaith No More @ O2 Academy, 14 June
It’s a strange billing on paper: Bristolian post-punk progenitors support San Franciscan metal mavericks – two bands that didn’t simultaneo... Read more »| 20 Jun 2015
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Music
FFS @ The Glasgow School of Art, 16 June
Unmistakably Maelian lyrics, Sparksian hooks and the simple keyboard melodies that inspired some of Franz Ferdinand’s hits drive FFS, the supergroup&rs... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015 -
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Waxahatchee @ Stereo, Glasgow, 15 June
Something’s changed. When Katie Crutchfield first brought Waxahatchee to the UK in 2013, there was a tangible nervousness surrounding her confessional ... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015 -
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UntitledLive: Neu! Reekie! @ Central Hall, 9 June
Neu! Reekie!’s really outdone itself. Other than highlighting the Central Hall in Tollcross as one of the city's most unsung venues (stained glass, a g... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015 -
MusicMogwai announce food bank drive for 20th anniversary gigs
Glasgow post-rockers Mogwai have announced plans for a charity donation drive at their 20th anniversary shows at the Glasgow Barrowlands this weekend. Ahead... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015 -
Film
EIFF 2015: She's Funny That Way
Peter Bogdanovich’s movies come marinaded in his love of Hollywood's Golden Age. In this dizzy soufflé he’s channelling Lubitsch, Sturges ... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015 -
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Sweets and Heavy Bass: The SAY Award 2015
The Skinny spent the evening at the 2015 SAY Awards in Glasgow eating popcorn, admiring quilts and chatting with excited prize winner Kathryn Joseph Read more »| 18 Jun 2015 -
Music
Watch the SAY Award 2015 announcement, plus performances from Golden Teacher and more
The Scottish Album of the Year Award, or SAY Award, for 2015 will be awarded in Glasgow tonight – watch a livestream of all the build-up to the announc... Read more »| 17 Jun 2015 -
Music
Crocodiles @ Broadcast, 14 June
A subdued Sunday night at Broadcast sees only a fistful of people catch opening band Vladimir’s set, which is a shame as the black-clad four piece do a... Read more »| 17 Jun 2015 -
Music
An Honest Romance: PAWS revisit Youth Culture Forever
PAWS' second album Youth Culture Forever saw them becoming bolder and brighter. The band's songwriter Phillip Taylor revisits its origins, and the trio play us an exclusive session to celebrate the record at Edinburgh's Tape Studio Read more »| 17 Jun 2015