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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MusicScottish Gig Highlights – October 2015
While October may be the month for kissing any few remnant sunny days goodbye, burying heads in textbooks, and carving pumpkins in preparation for Halloween,... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
MusicProtomartyr – The Agent Intellect
As a self-proclaimed mumbler, Joe Casey frequently obscures his lyrics with drawls and gritted teeth, while gothic shards – echoing Joy Division’... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
Books
The Life-Writer by David Constantine
Frank O' Connor Short Story Award winner David Constantine returns with new novel The Life-Writer Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
Music
The Spook School – Try To Be Hopeful
“We need you to know that we exist,” sing The Spook School. It’s a sentiment which could come from the mouth of any band ever, but in the h... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
MusicIndian Handcrafts – Creeps
The Canadian pairing of Brandyn James Aikens and Daniel Brandon Allen might have been cursed with the least rock 'n' roll names in history and they cert... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015 -
Music
Evening Hymns – Quiet Energies
Quiet Energies is unassuming; a slow-burning, spacious album documenting grief with dignified melancholia. Jonas Bonetta has regrouped his band for a follow-... Read more »| 02 Oct 2015
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Clubs
Quantic: A day in the life of Will Holland
Ringleader supreme Will Holland, aka Quantic, talks life in the studio and reveals what’s up his sleeve ahead of DJ dates in Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds Read more »| 01 Oct 2015 -
Clubs
Substance mark 9th birthday with Mono Junk party
A rare live show from veteran Finnish producer Kim Rapatti – aka Mono Junk – heads the birthday celebrations for Edinburgh techno night Substance this Friday. We look ahead, and Substance's Adam Richardson talks us through five choice Rapatti cuts Read more »| 01 Oct 2015 -
MusicIn Pictures: Blanck Mass, RM Hubbert, BDY_PRTS and Outblinker at The Pleasance Sessions
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Music
John Grant – Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
John Grant’s third impressive effort in a row sees the Iceland-based musician reach a new level of maturity, even as his stylistic choices shoot for so... Read more »| 01 Oct 2015 -
Music
Kowloon Walled City – Grievances
Third LP time for Kowloon Walled City, as the San Francisco post-hardcore types pull themselves out of the sludge to reveal something more intricate, yet no ... Read more »| 01 Oct 2015 -
Art
Turner Prize 2015 – Fur Coat Nae Knickers
There's a showcasing of departures from usual media, working practices and forms in the Turner Prize 2015 exhibition in Glasgow's Tramway Read more »| 01 Oct 2015 -
Film
The Martian
He's already been beamed into the International Space Station by NASA, and now Matt Damon's wise-cracking castaway is arriving in UK cinemas in Ridley Scott's new sci-fi, The Martian. Read more »| 01 Oct 2015 -
Music
Autre Ne Veut – Age of Transparency
After his scrappy, hazy debut, pop experimentalist Autre Ne Veut – aka Arthur Ashin – struck critical gold with 2013’s Anxiety. Its singula... Read more »| 01 Oct 2015 -
Music
Cristobal and the Sea – Sugar Now
Intricate, multicultural, multilingual goth-tinged folk band Cristobal and the Sea have plenty of plates spinning, but handle them all with due care and atte... Read more »| 01 Oct 2015