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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TheatreBallet Boyz @ Theatre Royal
While on tour, the Ballet Boyz bring the Talent - co-produced by Sadler's Wells – to Glasgow. Having split their show into two parts, each part fo... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
TheatreEdit-Point @ City Halls
Edit-Point's latest concert Axe! may sound like it is part of an anti-bedroom tax movement or the title of a very exciting action movie, but in fact, an elec... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
Film
Nebraska
All of Alexander Payne’s best and worst attributes are on full display in Nebraska. As Woody (Dern) takes a road trip to collect the million-dollar pri... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
Music
bEEdEEgEE – Sum / One
Experimentation is risky by nature, and too often the results can be sloppy, disquieting drivel. On paper, the seemingly attention-deficit audio salad that c... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
MusicPaper Beat Scissors – Paper Beat Scissors
Released back in March 2012 in his adopted home of Canada, Burnley-born songwriter Tim Crabtree belatedly brings his debut album as Paper Beat Scissors to th... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013 -
TheatreScottish Dance Theatre @ Dundee Rep
The Dundee Rep sees a bold double bill by Scottish Dance Theatre (SDT). On their home turf, the dance company presents Second Coming and&... Read more »| 02 Dec 2013
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Music
The Pixies / The Jezabels @ Barrowlands, 22 November
In a Glaswegian musical weekend boasting The Pixies, Shellac and noise-rock throw-backs Metz, you could be forgiven for thinking that you had tumbled, ripped... Read more »| 29 Nov 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 29 November
In today's Bulletin: An update on the Human Is Not Alone project; awesome Christmas-wear from Queens Of The Stone Age; George R.R. Martin discusses Game of Thrones; Ron Reyes leaves Black Flag; Scottish film in trouble; plus the latest Festival news Read more »| 29 Nov 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: New Music & Videos | 29 November
A round up of new videos, tracks, mixes and live performances from Wu-Tang Clan, Camera Obscura, James Holden, Daniel Avery, The Pastels, Rustie, Factory Floor, Eminem, Diplo, and The Velvet Underground; plus the latest film trailers Read more »| 29 Nov 2013 -
Music
In Hindsight: Songs: Ohia's Magnolia Electric Co. revisited
Following Jason Molina's death earlier this year, Secretly Canadian have reissued 2003's Magnolia Electric Co. album to mark its ten-year anniversary. We reappraise this pivotal moment in the career of an under-appreciated and prodigiously talented figure Read more »| 29 Nov 2013 -
Music
Dear Reader – We Followed Every Sound
Revisiting recent concept album Rivonia with the help of the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg orchestra, We Followed Every Sound highlights much of what ma... Read more »| 28 Nov 2013 -
Books
The Mile by Craig A. Smith
Craig A. Smith’s debut novel follows three friends on a pub crawl down Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. Ian is a happy family man, Euan is in a crumb... Read more »| 28 Nov 2013 -
Music
Gold Panda @ East Village Arts Club, Liverpool, 23 November
Following the release of his second album Half of Where You Live in June, Berlin-based, Essex-born producer Gold Panda takes to the stage in Liverpool for th... Read more »| 28 Nov 2013 -
Books
In Rude Health by Robbie Guillory
Humans are a kinky, sexually dysfunctional and - above all - stupid species; just ask any of our frontline healthcare professionals, especially after a drunk... Read more »| 28 Nov 2013 -
Music
Ejecta – Dominae
Joel Ford (Tigercity / Ford + Lopatin) joins vocalist Leanne Macomber of Neon Indian for an album of unabashedly retro synth-pop which manages to combine the... Read more »| 28 Nov 2013