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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BooksMichel Faber wins Saltire Book of the Year Award
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber has been named Book of the Year at the 2015 Saltire Literary Awards in Edinburgh Read more »| 26 Nov 2015 -
MusicJess and the Ancient Ones – Second Psychedelic Coming: The Aquarius Tapes
Taking the 'does what it says on the tin' approach to album titles, the Finnish sextet’s second long player isn’t going to win many awards for st... Read more »| 26 Nov 2015 -
Music
Hollie McNish, Eugene Kelly set for Liverpool show
Spoken word star Hollie McNish joins Eugene Kelly of the Vaselines, Pete Wylie and more on a bill mixing live poetry and music at Liverpool's LEAF in January, programmed by Edinburgh collective Neu! Reekie!. Read more »| 26 Nov 2015 -
MusicYacht – I Thought The Future Would Be Cooler
YACHT (it stands for Young Americans Challenging High Technology) have punishingly cool credentials: describing themselves variously as an 'avant-garde karao... Read more »| 26 Nov 2015 -
ComedyFunny Looking Presents a New Liverpool Comedy Night
Comedy superfan Gav Cross tells us why he wants to bring a more obscure type of comedy to the streets of Liverpool, with new comedy night Funny Looking Presents Read more »| 26 Nov 2015 -
Music
jennylee – right on!
If you check the liner notes to right on!, you’ll find a Lindberg on bass and a Mozgawa on the drums… but this is no Warpaint record. Jenny... Read more »| 26 Nov 2015
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Music
LeRoy – Skläsh
Google Translate can't handle Skläsh; after suggesting that it might possibly be a Swedish word, the engine admitted defeat. No matter, because Sklä... Read more »| 25 Nov 2015 -
Music
Stargaze & Greg Saunier – Deerhoof Chamber Variations
As though Greg Saunier wasn’t busy enough with his various bands, improv exercises, production projects et al, he drops this nifty piece of work. Worki... Read more »| 25 Nov 2015 -
Film
Watch the first Captain America: Civil War trailer
Watch the first trailer for the latest instalment in the Captain America series, Captain America: Civil War, which sees the super soldier go up against his Avengers comrade Iron Man. Read more »| 25 Nov 2015 -
Music
Matt Berry and The Maypoles – Live
Kooky cultural eccentric Matt Berry’s back. This time, he brings you a live compilation album of his time touring with The Maypoles. Stretching over ma... Read more »| 25 Nov 2015 -
Art
Refugee crisis: Cartoon urges EU to do more
A new animated video by a group of Swedish designers, Safe and Legal Paths calls on European Union leaders to do more to help those caught up in the ongoing refugee crisis in Syria in the wake of the Paris terror attacks. Read more »| 25 Nov 2015 -
Film
Sunset Song
Terence Davies’ long-awaited adaptation of classic Scottish novel Sunset Song: large, radiant and overwhelming Read more »| 25 Nov 2015 -
Music
Alan Vega, Alex Chilton, Ben Vaughn – Cubist Blues
“At the time, I didn’t fully realise how unique the Cubist Blues experience was,” said Vaughn of his 1994 collaboration with Suicide’... Read more »| 25 Nov 2015 -
Music
Alex Bleeker & The Freaks – Country Agenda
As likable and genuine a fellow as he comes across, Alex Bleeker is a flagrant fibber: “I’m not a fan of looking back,” he sings on Honey, ... Read more »| 25 Nov 2015 -
Music
Motopony – Welcome You
If it rains a-plenty in the Pacific North West, Seattle’s Motopony possess enough loose, counter-culture cachet to keep us dry and cosy. Combining psyc... Read more »| 25 Nov 2015