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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FilmAlexander Skarsgård: “Even in a sex scene, you can’t show a butt or a nipple”
In coming-of-age tale The Diary of a Teenage Girl, True Blood star Alexander Skarsgård goes from vampire to cradle robber. The Skinny talks to the Swedish hunk about teenage sexuality, Hollywood's prudishness, Zoolander, and a moustachioed Tarzan Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
ClubsHipnotony: Beneath the surface with Garth Be
We get together with Garth Be over a much-needed pint to discuss album number two Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
Music
Surviving the Abyss: Chelsea Wolfe interviewed
Californian singer-songwriter Chelsea Wolfe is a byword for doom-laden gothic rock. Her new album, Abyss, takes inspiration from such cheery topics as sleep paralysis, extreme drought and exploring the depths of the mind. The Skinny peers behind the veil Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
Books
Spoken word nights around the UK and abroad: Live Wire
With the tally of live literature nights growing ever bigger and seeming to cater for every literary taste, the host of Saboteur Award-winning spoken word night Bad Language picks some of the best at home and abroad Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
BooksDiary of a Hyperdreamer Vol. 2, by Bill Nelson
A musician’s autumn years are seldom as interesting as their first flush of success, with all the pitfalls that go with it. Now that Bill Nelson, maste... Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
Music
Friday at Wickerman 2015: Errors, Kathryn Joseph and WHITE
This is a year of change for Wickerman. The festival occupies its usual scenic plot among the rolling hills of coastal Kirkcudbrightshire, but regular attend... Read more »| 28 Jul 2015
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Art
Hanne Darboven at the Talbot Rice Gallery: A Quirk in the System
Talbot Rice Gallery curator Pat Fisher draws out the contradictions in the life and work of Hanne Darboven Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
Art
The Skinny Showcase at Hill St Design House
For the second year, this August sees our graduate Showcase selection go live as part of Edinburgh Art Festival, this time in Hill St Design House in the centre of town Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
Art
Alice Chandler: The Skinny Showcase
Alice Chandler was born in Leeds in 1993. She completed her foundation degree at Leeds College of Art in 2012 and graduated from Edinburgh College ... Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
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This Week in Scottish Art: Paradise, Integrity, and the Festival
Here's this week's openings and exhibition launches; there are tough decisions to make at the Edinburgh Art Festival and across in Glasgow, while in Dundee there's something a bit Mary Poppins-esque going on. Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
Music
Chelsea Wolfe – Abyss
Density, weight and punishing intensity threaten to entirely submerge Chelsea Wolfe’s fourth album in a cloak of gothic camouflage. But peer behind the... Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
Film3 Women
Reportedly inspired by a dream, 3 Women represents Robert Altman at his most experimental – the film’s eerie underwater shots (or, more technical... Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
Film
Stalag 17
Greater than The Great Escape, American prisoner of war tale Stalag 17 is a darkly comic theatre adaptation from director Billy Wilder. Simultaneously fiery ... Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
TheatreLove's Labour's Lost @ Bard in the Botanics
Year in, year out, Bard in the Botanics has to contend with the Glaswegian weather, and the cast of this year’s Love’s Labour’s Lost must b... Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
Music
The Telescopes – Hidden Fields
Behold thy glorious racket. In their various guises, psych veterans The Telescopes have constantly forged routes between the tropes of melodic shoegaze and a... Read more »| 28 Jul 2015