Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
-
TheatreThe Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler @ Citizens
Vanishing Point, in collaboration with the National Theatre of Scotland, present The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler. Known as a poet, surrealist-humourist a... Read more »| 03 Apr 2014 -
ClubsRed Bull Music Academy @ Gorilla, Manchester, 28 Jan
T Williams, Artwork and Greg Wilson talk shop Read more »| 03 Apr 2014 -
Music
Tim Hecker / Julianna Barwick @ RNCM, Manchester, 1 April
For a festival concerned with all things digital, the organisers of FutureEverything couldn’t have put together a more innovative pair of musicians tha... Read more »| 03 Apr 2014 -
MusicQuiet Revolution: Slint's David Pajo and Brian McMahan revisit Spiderland
As Touch & Go prepare to release a remastered and expanded version of Slint's seminal 1991 album Spiderland, we speak to the band's David Pajo and Brian McMahan about their early career, the worth of nostalgia, and Louisville's special brand of craziness Read more »| 03 Apr 2014 -
Comedy
Opinion: In Defence of BBC Three
Comedian Liam Pickford takes a look at the lost legacy of the Beeb's brief dance with the next generation, and dreams of what might have been Read more »| 02 Apr 2014 -
Music
Future Shock: EMA Interviewed
With The Future’s Void set to expand her reputation and fan base, Erika M Anderson (aka EMA) talks to The Skinny about second album nerves and why artistic, rather than commercial, success is what drives her Read more »| 02 Apr 2014
-
Art
Art News: Glasgow International launch parties; The Lighthouse unveils Spring programme, and more
A round-up of art news, including a dizzying array of launch events and exhibitions for the start of Glasgow International, the unveiling of The Lighthouse Gallery's spring 2014 programme, and more Read more »| 02 Apr 2014 -
Books
Other People’s Countries: A Journey into Memory by Patrick McGuinness
Far removed from the current trend in celebrity biographies, Patrick McGuinness’ memoir is an unusual and striking foray into the past. The book is a collection of Proustian pieces, varying in length from a paragraph to a few pages Read more »| 02 Apr 2014 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: April 2014 Horoscopes
ARIES In April the BBC commission a pilot of your ultra-realistic soap opera, where all the characters do is talk about all the soap operas they watched on T... Read more »| 02 Apr 2014 -
Music
Track-by-Track: The Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli unveils Do to the Beast
16 years after The Afghan Whigs released the celebratory masterpiece that fans eventually came to embrace as their swansong, the reactivated Cincinnati outfit's principal offers a beginners guide to its soul searching latter-day sequel Read more »| 02 Apr 2014 -
Books
Gutter 10
Scotland’s leading literary magazine has marked its fifth birthday with a new layout, another fine selection of new Scottish writing, and an interview with Alan Bissett Read more »| 02 Apr 2014 -
Books
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
Boy is a beautiful, contrary young woman who runs away from her abusive rat-catcher father in New York and ends up at the end of the line in Flax Hill, an idyllic town where everyone is a specialist – whether that be in cake-making, jewellery or teaching Read more »| 02 Apr 2014 -
Books
A Walk on the Wild Side: We meet the Wild Writers
How do you enliven a short story recital? Liverpool literary collective the Wild Writers have a solution, and it involves Mexican wrestling Read more »| 02 Apr 2014 -
Music
Shonen Knife – Overdrive
There’s just something about the Japanese approach to pop music that sets both knees and lower lips a-tremblin' - especially here in the (relatively) o... Read more »| 02 Apr 2014 -
Music
Woods – With Light And With Love
While many ‘alternative’ bands make a habit of becoming more esoteric as they age, Woods have taken the other route. The first Woods record At Re... Read more »| 02 Apr 2014