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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TheatreAutumn Theatre: The Quiet After the Storm
With critics passed out in the hallways and tourist levels plummeting from the surge the Fringe causes, it’s very easy to assume theatre and other performance arts suddenly come to a complete standstill come September Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
MusicVolcano Choir – Repave
Emerging in For Emma…’s slipstream, Volcano Choir’s 2009 debut couldn’t help but be framed in relation to Justin Vernon’s othe... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
MusicGoldfrapp – Tales of Us
Whether it stomps on your heart or mops your fevered brow will depend on where it finds you at the time, but Tales of Us is capable of both, so beware. If 20... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
Music
Esmerine – Dalmak
Initially, the first outing from Constellation mainstays Esmerine since 2011’s La Lechuza signals no departures from their chamber sound: opener Learni... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
TheatreDostoyevsky @ Citizens
This September sees Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment explode into the Citizens Theatre. Written for the stage by Chris Hannan, and directed by Domin... Read more »| 27 Aug 2013 -
Music
Glasvegas – Later... When the TV Turns to Static
It’s not often a band wanes with a curve as smooth as that shown by Glasvegas, descending from heart-conquering bright young things to Later…&rs... Read more »| 27 Aug 2013
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Music
Jessy Lanza – Pull My Hair Back
Co-produced by Jeremy Greenspan of Junior Boys, Canadian Jessy Lanza's debut for Hyperdub continues to rehabilitate 90s R&B as pioneered by the likes of ... Read more »| 27 Aug 2013 -
Music
Lorn – Debris
Lorn confirms in just four tracks why he is one of the most forward-thinking and intelligent producers in the bass music spectrum. Where Ask The Dust was by ... Read more »| 27 Aug 2013 -
Film
Upstream Colour
Dense, maddening, oblique but oh so beautiful, Shane Carruth’s long-awaited follow-up to the similarly bizarre Primer will certainly leave his audience... Read more »| 27 Aug 2013 -
Music
Factory Floor – Factory Floor
Factory Floor's long-anticipated full-length debut doesn't deviate much from its mission statement – the trio, who define their music merely as 'indust... Read more »| 27 Aug 2013 -
Books
The Lure of the Honey Bird by Elizabeth Laird
In turns an account of the cultural heritage of Ethiopia and of its subsequent dissolution and forefeiture by the increasing modernity of the country, The ... Read more »| 26 Aug 2013 -
Books
Gutter 09
The latest crop of new Scottish writing is a bumper one, with an abundance of excellent poems and prose. In the last issue the magazine called for entries in... Read more »| 26 Aug 2013 -
Art
A Conspiracy of Detail @ Mackintosh Museum, until 29 Sep
The four tapering support beams in GSA’s Mackintosh Museum truncate themselves just shy of the ceiling. They’re just for show. So A Conspiracy of... Read more »| 26 Aug 2013 -
Art
Jeremy Deller with Alan Kane @ Jupiter Artland, until 15 Sep
Deller and Kane mine the eccentricities of British popular culture and vernacular art to imbue everyday rituals such as tea breaks or Googling with exotic al... Read more »| 26 Aug 2013 -
Film
Time Bandits
Terry Gilliam's anarchic children’s fantasy has a lavish new release from Arrow, with a fully restored picture and audio track, and it's never looked b... Read more »| 26 Aug 2013