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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TheatreRomeo & Juliet @ Victoria Baths, Manchester
The best site-specific work occurs when the venue works in tandem with the performance occupying it; when the director listens to the space and weaves its ec... Read more »| 23 Sep 2014 -
ArtLast chance to see Douglas Gordon and Isa Genzken - This week in Scottish art
A guide to art shows, events and openings this week in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Read more »| 23 Sep 2014 -
MusicPeaking Lights – Cosmic Logic
Ooh, a boy-girl electro duo! You'd think, with the market as flooded as it is, these analogue kids would have the savvy to perhaps get a foothold by testing ... Read more »| 23 Sep 2014 -
Music
Glasgow venue BLOC+ relaunches with DIY compilation series
BLOC+ celebrates its relaunch with the first of a four-part compilation series, featuring the diverse likes of Adam Stafford, Vasa, Deathcats and Cutty's Gym. Long-serving manager/curator Chris Cusack explains BLOC+MUSIC's altruistic manifesto Read more »| 22 Sep 2014 -
MusicThrowing Muses / Tanya Donelly @ Òran Mór, Glasgow, 17 September
On the eve of the independence referendum, the denizens of Òran Mór take a break from contemplating their future to enjoy reflecting on th... Read more »| 22 Sep 2014 -
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SOHN / FYFE / Atom Tree @ Stereo, 16 September
The feud between analogue instrumentalists and electronic innovators might never end; the former argue for gritty traditionalism over safe pre-programming, t... Read more »| 22 Sep 2014
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Film
Maps to the Stars
Maps to the Stars is not a coherent whole, but rather an assemblage of sadistic caricatures of various Hollywood types – the washed-up and neurotic for... Read more »| 22 Sep 2014 -
FilmMadame DuBarry
“I think it's outrageous that the king is carrying out his affairs of state here in his mistress's pleasure palace.” With this gem from 1919, Ern... Read more »| 19 Sep 2014 -
Art
Own Art: Street Level Photoworks
Director Malcolm Dickson on a busy few months in the gallery Read more »| 18 Sep 2014 -
Film
Night of the Comet
Fans of ’80s cheese will likely eat up Night of the Comet with a gag-worthy spoon. With its B-movie horror aesthetic, campy Valley Girl dialogue, and s... Read more »| 18 Sep 2014 -
Music
"We're a rock band. We're happy with that" – The Vaselines interviewed
A full 25 years since their debut, Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee return with a third album as The Vaselines. The duo talk about yoga, still getting a kick out of music and why they're most definitely not a twee band from Bellshill Read more »| 16 Sep 2014 -
Music
Bronto Skylift / Felix Champion / Sharptooh @ Nice N Sleazy, 12 September
Sharptooth are the kind of band that your elderly relatives would find too loud if they played your wedding; more gothic fuzz pop than the schizophrenic nois... Read more »| 15 Sep 2014 -
Music
Under the Influence: Nick Oliveri
Currently touring with Californian punk veterans BL'AST! while readying a raw new solo LP for release this month, The Uncontrollable retraces the soundtrack to his adolescence Read more »| 12 Sep 2014 -
Music
Gruff Rhys @ O2 ABC, Glasgow, 5 September
There’s no support tonight, just the unusual sight of the ABC being filled with rows of plastic seating and a school-sized projector screen standing on... Read more »| 12 Sep 2014 -
Music
STANDFORSOMETHING
Celebrating rebellious individuals, we asked four rising UK bands of various persuasions: what do you stand for? Read more »| 11 Sep 2014