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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ArtGSA Degree Show 2013: Animal Farm
On our tireless quest for emerging talent we journey to the Central Belt degree shows and scan the plain for infinite marvellous spectacles. OK, maybe not tireless... Read more »| 17 Jun 2013 -
FilmHero Worship: Bette Davis
Sarah Perks, artistic director of Cornerhouse, Manchester, tells us why she’s seduced by Bette Davis, the queen of Hollywood's golden years Read more »| 17 Jun 2013 -
ArtRachel Goodyear: Creatures of the Night
As she prepares for her upcoming solo exhibition at The International 3, Rachel Goodyear invites us to her studio and into a parallel reality inhabited by uncannily human animals, and animalistic humans Read more »| 17 Jun 2013 -
Film
Spike Island
You’d be forgiven for thinking it’s 1990: this month alone the Stone Roses headline the Isle of Wight festival, star in a Shane Meadows documenta... Read more »| 17 Jun 2013 -
FilmBefore Midnight
This most unlikely of threequels returns to the story of Jesse (Hawke) and Céline (Delpy), 18 years after they first met on a train and fell in love. ... Read more »| 17 Jun 2013 -
Film
Like Someone in Love
While Woody Allen’s recent European ventures have produced distinctly mixed results, Abbas Kiarostami’s travels are proving to be much more rewar... Read more »| 14 Jun 2013
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Music
Sonic Hearts Foundation – Into Forever
Glasgow's Sonic Hearts Foundation claim to have three album's worth of material under their collective belt, and it shows – from the opening elect... Read more »| 14 Jun 2013 -
Music
Jon Hopkins – Immunity
"King Creosote and who??" was the cry from many a Scot when Anstruther's finest unveiled 2011's seminal collaborative work Diamond Mine. Largely unknown... Read more »| 14 Jun 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 14 June
In today's Bulletin: Stuart Braithwaite on the benefit concert to save the Sighthill Stone Circle; new music from Beth Gibbons, Liars, Nigel Godrich and more; an interview with TNGHT's Lunice; the history of the Black Flag logo, plus the latest trailers Read more »| 14 Jun 2013 -
Film
Man of Steel
Following Bryan Singer’s dreary Superman Returns in 2006, and new helmer Zack Snyder’s previous picture, the diabolical Sucker Punch, b... Read more »| 13 Jun 2013 -
BooksAll the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
It feels as though Evie Wyld may be writing the kind of novel series that is tied together not by recurring characters or plots, but by landscapes, themes an... Read more »| 13 Jun 2013 -
Theatre
The Man Who Woke Up Dead @ Waterside Arts Centre, Manchester, 27-29 Jun
Inspired by film noir, Hitchcock, and Orwell’s classic 1984, The Man Who Woke Up Dead is a dark and richly compelling thriller that sets out to challen... Read more »| 13 Jun 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 12 June
Crowd-fund a Mo' Wax retrospective; Kraftwerk recording next LP; listen to Kveikur by Sigur Rós; goNORTH stage lineup announced for Wickerman Festival; plus music from James Holden, Black Sabbath, Poliça, David Lynch, Com Truise and more Read more »| 12 Jun 2013 -
Music
Fucked Up / Titus Andronicus / METZ, SWG3, 28 May
“Can we kill these lights, please?” METZ guitarist / vocalist Alex Edkins asks bluntly, rejecting unnecessary theatrics as the Canadian... Read more »| 12 Jun 2013 -
Clubs
Matias Aguayo returns with The Visitor
After five years of travelling and collaborating, Matias Aguayo is finally ready to let us meet his hosts – with crisp, propulsive new LP The Visitor Read more »| 12 Jun 2013