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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ArtBe My Guest: Glasgow Open House Festival 2015
Glasgow Open House Festival is set to be the most exciting and genuinely unique art festival of this year. We talk to the organisers Read more »| 01 Apr 2015 -
Art1 Royal Terrace: Conversations About Art
We catch up with the founders of up and coming Glasgow gallery 1 Royal Terrace in advance of their second programme of exhibitions, now underway Read more »| 01 Apr 2015 -
BooksAye Write! All Write: 10 Years of Literature in Glasgow
We discover how literary festival Aye Write! has become a key date in the Glasgow cultural calendar, speaking to its guest programmer and the writers who have grown with it: Louise Welsh, Christopher Brookmyre, Alan Bissett and his birthday suit. Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Books
Karin Altenberg: “I’ve always felt like an outsider”
We chat to bestselling author Karin Altenberg about her new book Breaking Light, and landscapes lost and found Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
MusicWhisky in the Water: Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard Interviewed
The Death Cab For Cutie frontman on surviving breaks and staying publicly personal for the band's eighth album Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Music
Nothing Ever Happens Here: Broken Records / Garden Of Elks / Fuzzystar @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 27 Mar
Can’t fault the folks behind Nothing Ever Happens Here for their noble intention to reignite the Edinburgh live music scene; enthusiastic cheers please... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015
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Music
Bop English – Constant Bop
At first glance Constant Bop just looks like a sixties pastiche. From the pastel-washed cover to the cheesey title, this could pass for a lost Tim Buckl... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Books
Northwest Book Highlights – April 2015
A brand new poetry series launches in Liverpool this month, while non fiction and spoken word nights continue to thrive in Manchester Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
MusicSleater-Kinney @ Manchester Albert Hall, 24 March
This most potent of returns finally reaches the UK and manifests itself in a performance of extreme emotion: an experience that leaves both band and aud... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Art
In-situ in Pendle: When Will We Three...
As six new artists are announced for Pendle's in-situ residency, The Skinny travels to Brierfield to catch up with the founders and find out what's next for the organisation Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Clubs
Northwest Clubbing Highlights – April 2015
Balearic boat parties, plus visits from NTS residents and some techno heavyweights attempt to bring that speck of summer on the horizon a little closer Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Film
What We Do in the Shadows
A documentary crew follows the lives of four vampires living in a Wellington suburb. The key word here is ‘vampires’. Exchange it for ‘midw... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Music
Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
If 2010’s The Age Of Adz was Sufjan Stevens' bombastic all-action space opera, then Carrie & Lowell is his intimate, stripped-back, soul-barin... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Art
Rad Tunes, Pagan Mythology, and Science: This Week in Scottish Art
Starting this week in Glasgow, 1 Royal Terrace have launched their second programme of exhibitions, which curators Ruth Switalski and Peter Yxell have titled... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Music
Young Fathers – White Men Are Black Men Too
Young Fathers' White Men Are Black Men Too is a gargantuan, fearless record. It’s a celebration, a rebuttal, a call to action; a dance party that won&r... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015