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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TheatrePaul Bright's Confessions of a Justified Sinner @ Summerhall
An intelligent, interdisciplinary performance that brings together video, live performance, and a degree of object fetishism, Paul Bright's Confessions of a ... Read more »| 07 Oct 2013 -
FilmNot Your Average Sports Movie: Lucy Walker on The Crash Reel
Documentarian Lucy Walker speaks to us about her new film The Crash Reel, a compelling sports movie with a script written by real life Read more »| 04 Oct 2013 -
Music
Oneohtrix Point Never @ The CCA, Glasgow, 1 October
The music of Brooklyn-based producer Oneohtrix Point Never is a tricky beast from which to attempt to wrest meaning. The intersection of live visuals with hi... Read more »| 04 Oct 2013 -
MusicThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 4 October
The fightback against misogyny in music, with Lauren Mayberry of CHVRCHES and Sinead O'Connor; the latest music videos from Fuck Buttons, Tim Hecker and Forest Swords; play with Tricky; be in a film with Nick Cave; plus crowdfunding and tour news Read more »| 04 Oct 2013 -
Books
Half the Kingdom by Lore Segal
In 1985, The New York Times declared that Lore Segal was "closer than anyone to writing the Great American Novel." Not only is this bewildering, it's harmful... Read more »| 04 Oct 2013 -
Music
Never Let Me Go: Daughter's Elena Tonra in interview
As Daughter explore America's Deep South for the first time, founder Elena Tonra stops to ponder why they're connecting with listeners far and wide Read more »| 04 Oct 2013
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MusicThese New Puritans’ Jack Barnett recaps Field of Reeds
Ahead of this month’s tour, we talk to These New Puritans’ Jack Barnett about their visionary, Elton-praised third album Field of Reeds Read more »| 04 Oct 2013 -
TheatreAll My Sons @ Royal Exchange, Manchester, until 26 Oct
Michael Buffong has quite the CV. At the Exchange alone his recent credits include A Raisin in the Sun, which had five stars thrown at it from every directio... Read more »| 04 Oct 2013 -
Film
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
A semi-sequel to The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology sees cult philosopher Slavoj Žižek lecture on the ideological con... Read more »| 04 Oct 2013 -
Books
Lemn Sissay: Calm Before the Storm
Tasked with writing a poem to mark the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech, Lemn Sissay reflects on his own relationship to home, history and the power of delivery Read more »| 04 Oct 2013 -
Music
Manic Street Preachers / Public Service Broadcasting @ Barrowland, Glasgow, 29 September
With prop televisions screening cut-and-paste newsreel and a sound that marries krautrock jams with clipped RP samples, Public Service Broadcasting’s h... Read more »| 03 Oct 2013 -
Film
Sunshine on Leith
The Proclaimers’ back catalogue makes a fine backbone for this largely fun, nicely sincere and well-staged musical. Director Dexter Fletcher deftly han... Read more »| 03 Oct 2013 -
Art
Sonica 2013 – Facing The Future
Breaking down the walls between live music performance, visual art installations and bleeding-edge technology, Sonica returns to Glasgow with a fascinating bill. We spoke to Sonica/Cryptic founder Cathie Boyd, and two of this year's featured artists Read more »| 03 Oct 2013 -
Art
The Doppelganger Effect: Mark Boulos at Abandon Normal Devices
Heading up a programme concerned with technology's effect on our enactment of identity, Mark Boulos' new work for Abandon Normal Devices festival presents viewers with a distorted version of themselves Read more »| 03 Oct 2013 -
Art
Conditions of Life: Jeremy Deller presents All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
Collecting objects, artworks, audio and film, Jeremy Deller's All That Is Solid Melts Into Air considers the personal impact of the Industrial Revolution. He talks about his role as curator Read more »| 03 Oct 2013