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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MusicWildbirds & Peacedrums – Rhythm
Founded on a primal combination of vocals and percussion yet full of imaginative arrangements and production twists, Swedish duo Wildbirds and Peacedrums&rsq... Read more »| 29 Oct 2014 -
Music
Johnny Marr @ Manchester O2 Apollo, 25 October
"So, look where I find myself on a Saturday night!" Johnny Marr can barely contain himself. After spending his post-Smiths years as the ultimate journeyman m... Read more »| 29 Oct 2014 -
Music
Belle and Sebastian announced for Liverpool Sound City 2015
Further to the unveiling of their ninth studio album, Belle and Sebastian are the first announcement to be made for Liverpool Sound City 2015, which takes pl... Read more »| 29 Oct 2014 -
MusicAriel Pink – pom pom
This double album magnum opus from the one-time king of lo-fi haunted graffiti is essentially an Ariel Pink best-of, albeit with an entirely new batch of son... Read more »| 29 Oct 2014 -
MusicThe Wharves – At Bay
Despite their London postcode, there’s an aching for space in The Wharves’ neatly put together vocal harmonies and muddy guitar chug. At Bay take... Read more »| 29 Oct 2014 -
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Axes – Glory
After years of wallowing in textured slow-builds and delicate sparseness, when exactly did post-rock gain muscles and shed its attention span? London-dweller... Read more »| 29 Oct 2014
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Music
The Flaming Lips – With a Little Help From My Fwends
Here's one you genuinely couldn’t make up: The Flaming Lips bash out their own bonkers take on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with a little help... Read more »| 29 Oct 2014 -
BooksLagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
Nnedi Okorafor has previously suggested that Nigerian storytelling requires no separation of the mystical and the mundane, perhaps explaining the potent blen... Read more »| 28 Oct 2014 -
Music
Golden Fable – Ancient Blue
Life in Tim and Sam’s Tim and the Sam Band with Tim and Sam must have been difficult for Rebecca Palin. As well as the carpal strain of filling out tha... Read more »| 28 Oct 2014 -
Music
Black Rivers @ King Tut’s, Glasgow, 25 October
For a band who’ve released only two singles, Black Rivers are received pretty rapturously from the moment they’re illuminated under the lighting ... Read more »| 28 Oct 2014 -
Music
How to Dress Well @ St Philip's Church, Salford, 23 October
With the synthesised white noise of opener A Power mirrored in the TV static behind them, Tom Krell aka How To Dress Well's band begin by drawing heavily on ... Read more »| 28 Oct 2014 -
Music
The Phantom Band's Halloween Soundtrack
Compelled by Satan as the witching season approaches, The Phantom Band's Rick Anthony presents a Halloween compendium of recommended listening to keep the guisers off yer porch Read more »| 28 Oct 2014 -
Art'We Stay Because We Like It' – This week in Scottish Art
Whether you're into the occult, public art or cycling on a monumental sculpture, there's something to see in Scottish art this week. Read more »| 28 Oct 2014 -
Music
Death From Above 1979 / Greys @ The Garage, Glasgow, 22 October
“Can we turn this smoke machine off?” requests guitarist/vocalist Shehzaad Jiwani midway through Greys’ set, gesturing towards a head-level... Read more »| 28 Oct 2014 -
Film
Bustin' Back Into Cinemas: Ghostbusters' 30th Anniversary
It's been thirty years since they grappled with evil on the streets of Manhattan, but watching Ghostbusters today it's as funny as ever. With a new movie in the works and a restored print in cinemas, it's a perfect time to look back at this 80s classic Read more »| 28 Oct 2014