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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BooksLeaving the Sea by Ben Marcus
The human condition is too grand and vague, so Ben Marcus writes about the human disease instead. Many of the characters in these short stories are sick, or ... Read more »| 01 May 2014 -
Music
Inventions – Inventions
Inventions is the first collaboration between Explosions in the Sky guitarist Mark Smith and ambient aficionado Matthew Cooper, more commonly known as Eluviu... Read more »| 30 Apr 2014 -
ComedySimon Munnery's Fylm @ Gorilla, 26 Apr
Simon Munnery has never been shy about trying new things and his show Fylm is a surreal yet innovative new twist on the traditional stand-up formula. Undoubt... Read more »| 30 Apr 2014 -
ComedyScottish Comedy Awards: Taking Comedy Seriously?
The first annual Scottish Comedy Awards were held in an unassuming space in the basement of the Blythswood Hotel on Monday 31 March in Glasgow. Who knew? Read more »| 30 Apr 2014 -
Film
RIP Bob Hoskins
The much-loved British actor, star of The Long Good Friday and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, has died of pneumonia age 71 Read more »| 30 Apr 2014 -
Art
Art News: Leith School Of Art celebrate 25th anniversary; new photography exhibition on John Byrne's King's Theatre mural
A round-up of art news, with details of a 25th anniversary retrospective at Leith School of Art in Edinburgh; an exhibition of photographs of the John Byrne-designed mural at the King's Theatre; plus the latest news, exhibitions and openings Read more »| 30 Apr 2014
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FilmNanny Great: Anthony Chen on Ilo Ilo
Despite a seemingly cursed premier at Cannes, which included a thunderstorm and a blackout, Anthony Chen’s Ilo Ilo has gone on to great acclaim and dozens of festival awards. Ahead of its UK release, Chen gives us his theories on his debut's success Read more »| 30 Apr 2014 -
Music
Bastard Mountain – Farewell, Bastard Mountain
Meadow Ghosts instantly paints a lush-yet-disturbing atmosphere which permeates throughout Bastard Mountain's debut; solemn strings decorate the aural landsc... Read more »| 30 Apr 2014 -
MusicMurder Ballads: Dillinger Escape Plan's Greg Puciato unveils Killer Be Killed
Having formed with some secrecy in 2011, Dillinger Escape Plan frontman Greg Puciato finally lifts the lid on long-incubating super quartet Killer Be Killed and tells us which one is 'The Riffpisser' Read more »| 30 Apr 2014 -
Film
Scottish Film Events Highlights – May 2014
There's something for everyone this month, with horror at Dundead, celebrity impressions in The Trip to Italy at GFT and a celebration of one of Scotland's great underappreciated filmmakers, Norman McLaren Read more »| 30 Apr 2014 -
Theatre
Welcome HOME: A look at HOME's site-specific theatre programme
Manchester's newest cultural venue announces a site-specific theatre season, including Romeo and Juliet at Victoria Baths, that acts as a prologue to its opening Read more »| 30 Apr 2014 -
Music
Tobacco – Ultima II Massage
A growling, distorted bass hums, a pitch-bent synth wobbles, clashing live drums shudder and lurch. "RIDE," commands a distorted, vocoder-destroyed voice, "R... Read more »| 30 Apr 2014 -
Music
Swans – To Be Kind
Swans have consistently offered the most brutal of listening endurance tests with the maniacal Michael Gira spitting blood and venom at the wheel. This lauda... Read more »| 30 Apr 2014 -
Film
Northwest Film Event Highlights – May 2014
Eccentrics make up the bulk of this month's film events, with a season of Studio Ghibli and their surreal worlds, Crispin Glover bringing the strange to FACT and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace getting a resurrection... again. Plus the return of Screenfields Read more »| 30 Apr 2014 -
Music
Scottish Gig Highlights – May 2014
This coming May, a visit from duelling techno behemoths Fuck Buttons, psychedelic visionaries Flaming Lips, industrial juggernauts Nine Inch Nails, and a look at the boundary-pushing Tectonics Festival, featuring Thurston Moore, Bill Wells and many more Read more »| 30 Apr 2014