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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TheatreVenue of the Month: The Lucy Davis Vaults
Down the dark, dark stairs there was a dark, dark cellar... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
Film
Art Party
As a piece of filmmaking, the strengths and flaws of Art Party are very much intertwined. In depicting Smith and cohorts on their real-life trip to 2013... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
MusicNehruviandoom – Nehruviandoom (Sound of the Son)
The pairing of up-and-coming rap sensation Bishop Nehru and metal-faced veteran MF Doom might seem a strange one – Nehru's been championed by big ... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
Film
Finding Fela!
The documentaries that roll off the Alex Gibney production line tend to be at their best when the filmmaker is investigating a big story. Films like Mea Maxi... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
MusicCatfish And The Bottlemen – The Balcony
Alright, who forgot to fill in the landfill? Evidently news of indie’s death has yet to reach Llandudno’s shores, where woefully-named quartet Ca... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
Film
Third Time's the Charm: Anton Corbijn on A Most Wanted Man
Anton Corbijn is one of the world's finest rock photographers. He's pretty handy with the moving image too. Here he discusses his latest film, spy thriller A Most Wanted Man, and working with the late Philip Seymour Hoffman Read more »| 02 Sep 2014
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Books
Alan Warner: Imagining Scotland
As he publishes his new novel Their Lips Talk of Mischief, Alan Warner – one of Scotland's greatest living authors – talks candidly of referendum, ageing and critics. And as is only relevant, books, of course Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
Film
Attila Marcel
The last few years have seen some of modern animation’s most acclaimed directors make forays into live action. Notably Brad Bird and Andrew Stanto... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: September 2014 Horoscopes
ARIESAfter tasting your sperm the witch doctor concedes that you probably have a low sperm count. His prescription is to sleep with a decorative pejazzle of ... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
Film
Northwest Film Event Highlights – September 2014
In Liverpool, film fans are putting their noses on the line with a scratch-and-sniff screening of a John Waters classic, while GrimmFest brings a brace of horror previews to Manchester Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – September 2014
In Liverpool the sound in Camp & Furnace will be loud and heady for the return of Psych Fest, while Manchester hosts the likes of the superb Honeyblood and First Aid Kit Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
Music
St. Vincent / Arc Iris @ O2 ABC, Glasgow, 26 August
Both musically and visually, Arc Iris are a colourful affair. Catsuited and rainbow-eyed, former Low Anthem member Jocie Adams delivers her baroque compositi... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
Music
Ital – Endgame
People were only just about getting to grips with Ital’s matrix-weaving series of EPs when he dropped his debut full-length for Planet Mu in 2012, a ma... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
BooksWerner Herzog – A Guide for The Perplexed by Paul Cronin
As one might expect from a 493-page conversation with the filmmaker Werner Herzog, the most explosive moments come in the form of confrontations with his cul... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
MusicDeath From Above 1979 – The Physical World
Trainwreck 1979, the lead single that ended Death From Above’s ten year recording hiatus last month, was almost custom built to engineer well-worn revi... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014