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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BooksThe Moth: This is a True Story edited by Catherine Burns
Taken from the US phenomenon that consists of a single person, standing on a lit stage, telling a true story from their life, these are brave and revealing m... Read more »| 04 Aug 2014 -
FilmStuart Murdoch on God Help the Girl
Stuart Murdoch's debut film God Help the Girl has been a long time in the making, but this month UK film fans get to see the efforts of his labour. The Belle & Sebastian frontman recalls how his lead character came to him fully formed Read more »| 04 Aug 2014 -
Music
Saving Grace: Owl John on the record that rescued Frightened Rabbit
Ten years into his career with Frightened Rabbit, Scott Hutchison came close to calling it a day. He tells The Skinny how solo record Owl John may just have kept the band in business Read more »| 01 Aug 2014 -
Music
Deconstruction Works: Adult Jazz unveil their unorthodox debut
After a long incubation period, pathological brainboxes Adult Jazz are finally ready to release their genre-busting, metanarrative-laden debut. We ask the four-piece to give us the gist Read more »| 01 Aug 2014 -
Music
Unfolding The Exquisite Corpse: Grumbling Fur Interviewed
Amidst statements of wanting to transcend the mundane, Alexander Tucker and Daniel O’Sullivan’s latest project really seems to be about their friendship Read more »| 01 Aug 2014 -
BooksWhat Ends by Andrew Ladd
In his debut novel, Andrew Ladd explores what ends when an island community disintegrates. Set on East Fior, a fictional but no less Hebridean isle, the narr... Read more »| 01 Aug 2014
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BooksThe Book of Gaza: A City in Short Fiction Edited by Atef Abu Saif
Here is the latest in Comma Press’s The Book of… series, a cycle that’s taken in cities as geographically and culturally disparate as Toky... Read more »| 01 Aug 2014 -
Art
Ghostie! – Rob Chavasse @ The Royal Standard, Liverpool
The Royal Standard (TRS) have split their Biennial exhibition between two spaces this year: the regular ‘back building’ and a new space on the fl... Read more »| 01 Aug 2014 -
Comedy
Fin Taylor: Real Talk @ The King's Arms, Salford, 25 Jul
There are few things worse than traffic jams for a travelling comedian. Add on to that it being your birthday – and when you get to the venue, the room... Read more »| 31 Jul 2014 -
Music
Wickerman 2014: Saturday, 26 July
With a layer of cloud settling over this part of rural Kirkcudbrightshire there is no repeat of Friday’s bakehouse temperatures. Saturday is an altoget... Read more »| 31 Jul 2014 -
Music
Wickerman 2014: Friday, 25 July
Among the many spectacles at this year’s Wickerman festival are the punters themselves. Aside from the bands, the stalls, the reggae tent and the fairg... Read more »| 31 Jul 2014 -
Comedy
Gein’s Family Giftshop @ The King’s Arms, Salford, 23 Jul
The sketch group Gein’s Family Giftshop is a movement born out of hate. Not in the same way as the policies of National Socialism, or UKIP – but ... Read more »| 31 Jul 2014 -
Music
Lost Map's Howlin' Fling
The inaugural Howlin' Fling on Eigg was a roaring success for Lost Map and a joy for anyone lucky enough to attend it Read more »| 31 Jul 2014 -
Music
"Why would it be the same?" – Words with J Mascis
With solo album Tied To A Star ready to drop, J Mascis maintains the irrepressible form that's marked his career since reforming Dinosaur Jr ten years ago. We spoke with the reserved guitarist, and occasionally even got a response Read more »| 31 Jul 2014 -
Music
O2 Love Music Column – August 2014
When the British Empire was decolonised in 1949 and the Commonwealth of Nations declared, it’s not entirely clear if Queen Lizzie stipulated that Glasg... Read more »| 31 Jul 2014