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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BooksPoetry News - Scotland, October 2015
Liz Lochhead and Phill Jupitus at Wigtown Book Festival, plus Dundee Literary Festival and more. Read more »| 29 Sep 2015 -
MusicU.S. Girls – Half Free
Half Free sees Meghan Remy’s project U.S. Girls return with its third album, and her first for the eternally eminent 4AD label. Although interesting in... Read more »| 28 Sep 2015 -
Film
Night and the City
Few films are as drenched in fear, anger and desperation as Night and the City. It was Jules Dassin’s first film in exile from America after being blac... Read more »| 28 Sep 2015 -
FilmResults
If Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess was his most defiantly uncommercial film to date, Results initially seems like the first time this filmmaker has co... Read more »| 28 Sep 2015 -
FilmIn Praise of Seconds
It’s taken a long time for John Frankenheimer’s film to be appreciated as the modern masterpiece it is. Read more »| 28 Sep 2015 -
Theatre
Simon Armitage on The Odyssey, Liverpool Everyman
Following last year's Lily Cole-starring dramatisation of The Iliad, Simon Armitage now turns his hand to Homer's other great work. We caught up with the poet to discuss The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead, which premieres at Liverpool's Everyman Theatre Read more »| 25 Sep 2015
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Music
Artifact: The Dawn of Creation Records 1983-85
There's a quote in Alan McGee's 2013 autobiography that neatly sums up the Creation Records ethos. Discussing his own mid-80s band, Biff Bang Pow!, he laughs... Read more »| 25 Sep 2015 -
Music
Track premiere: VASA – 'Poseidon's Kiss'
After a few years of honing their skills on the live circuit (most recently at Bristol's excellent ArcTanGent festival), prolific Glasgow post-rockers VASA o... Read more »| 25 Sep 2015 -
Music
Premiere: A Mote of Dust – Home (Mogwai remix)
Listen to Dominic Aitchison of Mogwai's remix of Home by A Mote of Dust, the new project from Craig Beaton of Aereogramme and The Unwinding Hours. Read more »| 24 Sep 2015 -
Comedy
Kevin Bridges @ SSE Hydro, Glasgow, 21 September
Kevin Bridges is the modern day patron saint of Glasgow; a natural entertainer and marvellous storyteller. Read more »| 24 Sep 2015 -
Clubs
Skinned #9: Nightwave (Heka Trax)
Our mix series returns with a stormer courtesy of Glasgow's Maya Medvesek, aka Nightwave. Read more »| 24 Sep 2015 -
Film
Life
Control director Anton Corbijn returns with Life, a study in the deification of James Dean. Read more »| 24 Sep 2015 -
MusicGet to Know... Fruit Bomb
Wave hello to effervescent pop-rockers Fruit Bomb, who introduce themselves ahead of their gig at The Deaf Institute this Friday (25 September) Read more »| 23 Sep 2015 -
Film
Captive
The latest edition to the emerging genre of 'faith-based-on-a-true-story' films for the evangelical set, Captive recounts the harrowing ordeal of real-life f... Read more »| 23 Sep 2015 -
Film
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
There's a scene in Terence Fisher's Hammer Horror classic in which Dr Bonner (Diffring) shows someone a photo of himself from decades ago and they gasp at th... Read more »| 22 Sep 2015