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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MusicThe Horrors – Luminous
When Brian Eno said My Bloody Valentine made “the vaguest music ever to be a hit,” he noted a group rejecting the mainstream/underground dichotom... Read more »| 29 Apr 2014 -
MusicLykke Li – I Never Learn
The final part of a thematic trilogy that began with 2008 debut Youth Novels, I Never Learn takes Lykke Li’s work a shade darker and a notch glummer &n... Read more »| 29 Apr 2014 -
Books
Ladies Who Lunge: Emma Jane Unsworth in interview
Emma Jane Unsworth discusses he second novel, “a filthy, funny story of friendship, love and animal instincts” set against a Rainy City backdrop Read more »| 29 Apr 2014 -
MusicKreidler – ABC
Düsseldorf's Kreidler are two decades deep, combining drifting ambient soundscapes with complex yet understated rhythmic patterns and richly-textured el... Read more »| 29 Apr 2014 -
Music
Wussy – Attica!
If there’s one area where US music has always excelled, it’s depicting the dark underside to the nation’s sunny exterior. Country music exp... Read more »| 29 Apr 2014 -
Art
David McLeavy: Funhaus @ Toast, Manchester, until 6 May
Interactivity is at the centre of Funhaus, a solo project from Sheffield-based artist David McLeavy at Toast, Manchester – his first in the city. From ... Read more »| 29 Apr 2014
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MusicGruff Rhys – American Interior
Fresh from writing shiny electro-pop chronicling the life of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli as one half of Neon Neon, Gruff Rhys reverts to his own name to tell t... Read more »| 29 Apr 2014 -
Theatre
Stories of Old: The Last Days of Troy
Can history's oldest narrative be revived for a contemporary audience? The involvement of Simon Armitage and Lily Cole is sure to help, right? Nick Bagnall discusses his latest production, The Last Days of Troy Read more »| 29 Apr 2014 -
Comedy
Comedy Spotlight: Rachel Fairburn
This month's unflinching glare lands on Rachel Fairburn. A census taker once tried to test her. It didn't end well... Read more »| 29 Apr 2014 -
Music
Killer Be Killed – Killer Be Killed
Killer Be Killed – a new collaboration featuring members of Soulfly, Mastodon, The Dillinger Escape Plan and The Mars Volta – intelligently splic... Read more »| 29 Apr 2014 -
Music
Fat Goth – One Hundred Percent Suave
Fat Goth don't have immediate crossover appeal; their music is too heavy and takes too many sharp changes in direction that can leave the casual listener str... Read more »| 29 Apr 2014 -
Books
Five Came Back by Mark Harris
According to Mark Harris, Frank Capra once made Oscar nominees stand on the stage together before he announced the winner. The five film directors that ... Read more »| 29 Apr 2014 -
Film
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
This was the last of Hammer’s Frankenstein films, a return to the original franchise and star Peter Cushing following 1970’s ill-advised re-boot ... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Art
Anne Collier @ The Modern Institute
As part of Glasgow International 2014, New York-based artist Anne Collier continues her feminist investigations into the photographic mechanics of gaze and s... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Art
Post-Military Cinema: Beatriz Santiago Muñoz @ Transmission Gallery
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz returns to Glasgow with Post-Military Cinema, part of Glasgow International Festival 2014. Her latest work is an anthropologica... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014