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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ClubsScotland Clubbing Highlights – May 2014
As summer beckons, we look to a selection of acts including DJ Harvey, Omar-S and Head High to bring the heat... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Theatre
It's the Merry Month of May!
One month closer to summer means one month closer to the Edinburgh Fringe and the Edinburgh International Festival. However, before critics start to run amok up and down the Royal Mile, Glasgow has a few festive events of its own Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
MusicLove Buzz: Brody Dalle on balancing motherhood with recording her solo debut
With her first solo release Diploid Love set to confirm her as an increasingly accomplished songwriter, Brody Dalle explains why the dual demands of family and music are a problem she's happy to have Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Art
You Are …Gold!
With a major new survey exhibition of Scottish Gold open at The Hunterian, Glasgow, we take a look at the history of this precious yellow metal and a tour around its use in contemporary art today. Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Art
Destroying Art @ GoMA
GoMA’s middle floor has been transformed into the bowels of curatorial constipation by Atelier’s modest selection of free materials and open in... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
ArtAvery Singer @ McLellan Galleries
Commissioned by Glasgow International, Avery Singer’s work hangs in the upper echelons of Sauchiehall Steet’s McLellan Galleries. The five canv... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014
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Books
A Life of Letters: Alasdair Gray Returns
Alasdair Gray is back with a new autobiography, Of Me & Others, and his to-do list is still more impressive than yours Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
FilmFilm News: Tom Hardy on the making of Locke; Future Shorts Edinburgh programme unveiled
Tom Hardy and director Steven Knight on the making of Locke; a look at the forthcoming Future Shorts Edinburgh programme; plus the latest casting rumours and trailers, featuring Justice League, Goonies 2, Richard Linklater's Boyhood, and more Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Music
The Body / VOE @ Audio, Glasgow, 22 April
Dotted inbetween the bald-headed and bearded metal-heads who are tonight's main audience are a handful of nervous-looking hipster types (this reviewer among ... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Art
Richard Hawkins: Hijikata Twist @ Tate Liverpool, until 11 May
Sadako crawls in jerking slow-motion out of the well and into her victim’s television set in Ring, and Kayako, a little less discerning, reigns disjoin... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Art
The Negligent Eye @ The Bluecoat, Liverpool, until 15 Jun
A monochrome baby boy stares warily out at the viewer. The child is from another world, an alien or astronaut; lines run down his face in cosmic interference... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Music
Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots
Damon Albarn's solo debut proper doesn't feel like it labours under the weight of anticipation – the Blur front-man has already proved everything ... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Film
Theatre of Blood
Driven to suicide by bad notices, legendarily hammy stage actor Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price) has returned for a special comeback tour re-enacting Shakesp... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Film
Pompeii
The narrative arc of Pompeii was always going to have to be special to maintain an audience’s attention, given that all the characters involved face ce... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
MusicFatima Al Qadiri – Asiatisch
Kuwait-born Fatima Al Qadiri, first associated with the 'vaporwave' microgenre, reveals herself to be worthy of the hype on her Hyperdub debut. The dominant ... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014