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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MusicNew Order: “Hooky’s not spoken to us in God knows how many years”
New Order’s Stephen Morris explains the Salford legends’ resurgence, their unfinished record, and why he couldn’t find a steady job anywhere else. Read more »| 26 Apr 2012 -
MusicIt Hugs Back – Laughing Party
As if It Hugs Back’s band name wasn’t misleadingly twee enough, Laughing Party’s title and colourful cover seem like a concerted effort to... Read more »| 26 Apr 2012 -
MusicMothlite – Dark Age
Daniel O'Sullivan's acclaimed Ulver has a tendency to traverse a truly abstract path between the realms of shoegaze, metal and black ambient, while his col... Read more »| 26 Apr 2012 -
BooksJonah Lehrer: The Science of Creativity
Jonah Lehrer is a writer and neuroscientist whose work bridges the gap between art and science by exploring creativity through science Read more »| 26 Apr 2012 -
Film
Twice Around the Daffodils
Produced, written and directed by the team behind the Carry On series and set in a tuberculosis ward, Twice Around the Daffodils (1962) presents an awkward m... Read more »| 24 Apr 2012 -
Art
Rob Kennedy @ CCA
Is there anything to do here, is there anything to see? The title of Rob Kennedy’s show might be the cry of his audience – tentative, impatient &... Read more »| 24 Apr 2012
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Art
Wolfgang Tillmans @ The Common Guild
You’ll rarely find a lone artwork by Wolfgang Tillmans. His photographs – some of them large, some of them small – are more or less always ... Read more »| 24 Apr 2012 -
Music
Lower Dens – Nootropics
Nootropics is named after a kind of drug which alters the brain's supply of neurochemicals in order to boost memory and intelligence; and right enough, it ... Read more »| 24 Apr 2012 -
FilmThe Monk
Legendary orator and pillar of the church Ambrosio (Vincent Cassel) has his devotion to God thrown into question by the arrival of Valerio (Déborah Fr... Read more »| 24 Apr 2012 -
Clubs
Psychedelic Forest Disco at Kelburn Castle
As summer beckons the prospect of al fresco partying in Scotland becomes a little more realistic and so, after last year’s sell out success, the Psyche... Read more »| 23 Apr 2012 -
Clubs
Tribute & La Cheetah Present Theo Parrish
The first weekend of May is set to get sweaty as Tribute and La Cheetah Club conspire to bring sonic welder Theo Parrish to the cosy confines of Max’s ... Read more »| 23 Apr 2012 -
Clubs
Witness Presents Claude VonStroke
It might be mad, but it’s true. Sneaky’s is going super-sized for the night as Witness host the big-fun maximalism of Claude VonStroke in an inti... Read more »| 23 Apr 2012 -
Books
The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey
The Chemistry of Tears is fresh from the pen of Peter Carey, the guy who did more for Ned Kelly than Ned ever did for himself. This time Carey does the same ... Read more »| 22 Apr 2012 -
Music
Mastodon: "Record Store Day is about remembering your roots"
As the clock struck midnight on Record Store Day 2012, we talked to Mastodon's Bill Kelliher about the importance of the occasion and the band's split single with Feist Read more »| 21 Apr 2012 -
Music
Graham Coxon @ The Garage, 17 April
Betatone Distraction look rather pleased with themselves tonight, as well they might: for each stop of his tour, Mr Coxon has sought nominations for support ... Read more »| 20 Apr 2012