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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MusicNick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Live from KCRW
Recorded in LA for radio station KCRW earlier this year, this fourth Cave live set splices selections from recent studio album Push the Sky Away with choice ... Read more »| 26 Nov 2013 -
Music
METZ @ The Deaf Institute, Manchester, 22 November
The last time Toronto trio METZ were in town, they were at the other end of a three-band bill, opening up for Meat Puppets and Mudhoney at Academy 2. To... Read more »| 26 Nov 2013 -
Books
Sufficient Grace by Amy Espeseth
Present and populous since before the creation of the novel itself, the coming-of-age tale has been told and re-told more times and in more ways than just ab... Read more »| 26 Nov 2013 -
MusicAdrian Crowley & James Yorkston – My Yoke Is Heavy: The Songs of Daniel Johnston
Four years after its initial low-key release, Adrian Crowley and James Yorkston’s homage to Daniel Johnston is made widely available for the first time... Read more »| 26 Nov 2013 -
Music
Death Grips – Government Plates
If cancelled shows and major label snubs are anything to go by, budding Death Grips initiates would be wise to expect the unexpected. Case in point: Governme... Read more »| 25 Nov 2013 -
MusicO2 Love Music Column – December 2013
December wastes no time in getting up and moving; the first day of the month takes us back to 1988 when the Happy Mondays released second album&nbs... Read more »| 25 Nov 2013
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Music
Julia Holter / Ela Orleans, CCA, 20 November
A support slot from Ela Orleans is an astute choice for Julia Holter: this Glasgow-based Polish solo artist explores a similarly dreamlike world, driven by a... Read more »| 25 Nov 2013 -
MusicDestroyer – Five Spanish Songs
With Dan Bejar’s piquant way with words a substantial part of Destroyer’s appeal, Five Spanish Songs may herald disappointment for those who don&... Read more »| 25 Nov 2013 -
Film
Betty Blue
Béatrice Dalle’s pouty visage became one of the 80s’ most recognisable images after sizzling and shrieking her way through Jean-Jacques Be... Read more »| 25 Nov 2013 -
Film
Heaven's Gate
Its notoriously troubled production may have passed into legend, but Heaven’s Gate has finally emerged from its own tangled history to be regarded as a... Read more »| 25 Nov 2013 -
MusicQueens of the Stone Age @ The SSE Hydro, 16 November
Since making their modest Scottish debut at The Cathouse in 2000, through several memorable nights at the Barras and an enduring habit of returning to T in t... Read more »| 24 Nov 2013 -
Comedy
The New Wave @ The Dancehouse, 22 Nov
A night promising to showcase the ‘new wave of comedy’ is a lofty claim, but one that is met with a diverse cast, that lamentably only has four o... Read more »| 24 Nov 2013 -
Art
Witches and Wicked Bodies @ Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Witches and Wicked Bodies is an incredible exhibition that showcases the evolution of the witch, through five hundred years of artistic expression. Drawings,... Read more »| 22 Nov 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 22 November
In your weekly pop cultural roundup: Beck lashes out at Spotify; former groupies expose EDM's badboys on Reddit; Edinburgh's Usher Hall turns 100, plus the latest festival and tour news! Read more »| 22 Nov 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: New Music & Videos | 22 November
A round-up of new music videos, tracks and trailers, featuring music from Pixies, Arcade Fire, Oneohtrix Point Never, Pharrell Williams, Evian Christ, Withered Hand and Tame Impala, plus a Numbers 10th Anniversary Mix from Jackmaster Read more »| 22 Nov 2013