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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FilmJurassic World
In one early sequence of Jurassic World, the apathetic older brother (Nick Robinson) of a pair of kids visiting the now fully-functional dinosaur theme park ... Read more »| 11 Jun 2015 -
Books
Entries open for Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awards
The Scottish Book Trust’s New Writers Awards for 2016 are open for applications, with eleven prizes on offer to new writers from across Scotland. Entr... Read more »| 10 Jun 2015 -
ArtThe Arches to go into administration
Glasgow multi-arts venue The Arches is to go into administration, it has been announced, and all events scheduled for the venue from 10 June onwards have bee... Read more »| 10 Jun 2015 -
Comedy
On Stranger Tides: The Diversification of Comedy
One quarter of sketch/variety/fight club night Quippodrome, Edy Hurst sets sail to explore a sea change in comedy nights around the Northwest to see whether things might be getting a lot weirder. Read more »| 10 Jun 2015 -
MusicDropping the Guilt: Catholic Action interviewed
Chris McCrory has already tasted acclaim as the drummer in Casual Sex, but new band Catholic Action finds the talented producer taking centre stage. The Skinny met the Glasgow group to talk pop music, religious guilt and resembling Bobby Gillespie. Read more »| 09 Jun 2015 -
Art
Satellites, Self-Branding, and the New East End: This Week in Scottish Art
Glasgow School of Art hosts its degree show, the deadline looms for Collective's Satellites programme, and there are launches a-plenty at Edinburgh Printmakers, Koppe Astner and CCA. Read more »| 09 Jun 2015
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Theatre
Jackie Hagan on her new show, Some People Have Too Many Legs
Comedian, poet, theatre-maker and all-round local legend Jackie Hagan explains how a tremendously difficult year helped her hone her craft Read more »| 09 Jun 2015 -
Theatre
Little Shop of Horrors
Theatre comes to the film festival with Live, Live Cinema. Barnie Duncan chats to The Skinny about the drawing nature of screens, tripping over your own brain and the escalating fight to impress an audience. Read more »| 08 Jun 2015 -
Clubs
Behind the Scenes: KMAH
Broadcasting from the back streets of Leeds, new radio station KMAH aims to spread a bit of limelight on North-based DJs Read more »| 08 Jun 2015 -
MusicRemember Remember announce split
Glasgow sextet Remember Remember have announced they are to split up, playing their final show at this month’s West End Festival. Writing on the group... Read more »| 08 Jun 2015 -
Art
Northern Greats: The Yoga Lounge
As she prepares to hold a mass yoga event marking the summer solstice, we speak to Yoga Lounge owner Jane Dowler for the latest in our series meeting residents of the Great Northern Read more »| 08 Jun 2015 -
Comedy
Interview with the Vampire: Fred Fletch v Dracula
Of all the wonders at this year's Magic Festival, one thing we didn't anticipate was Dracula. Rafael is a magician taking on the famous Count's duties at the closing gala, but we knew he was a true vampire when he agreed to an interview with Fred Fletch Read more »| 08 Jun 2015 -
Film
Way Out West: John Maclean on Slow West
For his debut feature film, John Maclean has ventured where few UK filmmakers have gone before: the wild expanse of the Old West. The former Beta Band knob-twiddler talks about going from making films with his bandmates to directing Michael Fassbender Read more »| 08 Jun 2015 -
Art
The Skinny Showcase: Sarah Eyre
Showcase: Sarah Eyre “My work is concerned with an abiding fascination for the uncanny and the surreal in everyday objects, as well as an ongoing expl... Read more »| 05 Jun 2015 -
Art
That’s Entertainment: Oculist Witnesses at the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
Preston’s Harris Museum & Art Gallery encourages us to “dance first, think later” with two new exhibitions. We talk to Oculist Witness artist Sovay Berriman about her ever morphing sculpture, nomadic herding odysseys and molluscs that hunt wizards... Read more »| 05 Jun 2015