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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FilmChef
Chef centres on Casper, a cook, once the darling of the LA food scene, who's stuck in a rut churning out uninspired nosh for his philistine restaurateur paym... Read more »| 23 Jun 2014 -
MusicYoung Fathers win Scottish Album of the Year Award
Edinburgh hip-hop experimentalists Young Fathers were chosen ahead of Boards Of Canada, Chvrches and Edwyn Collins at the Glasgow Barrowlands ceremony Read more »| 20 Jun 2014 -
MusicYoung British Artists – Change by Any Other Name
Get ready to fall, and fall hard. After so many false starts in the town this past couple of years, Young British Artists are a Manchester band who mould her... Read more »| 19 Jun 2014 -
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GSA Degree Show 2014
The GSA School of Fine Art Showcase provides a welcome platform for work that may no longer exist or just might not otherwise be exhibited, following the rec... Read more »| 19 Jun 2014 -
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Dalhous – Will To Be Well
A wordless ambient concept album about pioneering Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing might sound like too conceptual a proposition for some electronica fans, b... Read more »| 19 Jun 2014 -
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Young British Artists @ First Chop Brewing Arm, Salford, 14 June
Of all the dates most bands would choose their debut album launch to fall on, the night of England’s first World Cup game would probably not be one of ... Read more »| 18 Jun 2014
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Music
Plank – Hivemind
Manchester's Plank play with Krautrock in a slightly more groove-based way than fellow motorik warriors BEAK>, delivering a head-nodding collection of mat... Read more »| 18 Jun 2014 -
MusicFhloston Paradigm – The Phoenix
Philadelphian producer King Britt returns to his science fiction-inspired Fhloston Paradigm project, which sees him switching from the soulful techno of his ... Read more »| 18 Jun 2014 -
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Sole & DJ Pain 1 – Death Drive
Over beats by DJ Pain 1, America's most fiercely independent rapper is on fiery form, expressing contempt for contemporary hip-hop's avaricious, money-grabbi... Read more »| 18 Jun 2014 -
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Fucked Up / Lower @ Gorilla, Manchester, 15 June
The tension: it’s bound up in every single one of Anton Rothstein’s rippling, complex drum patterns. Why settle for a standard punk rock beat whe... Read more »| 17 Jun 2014 -
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Own Art: Videos
This month sees the launch of a new extension of the Own Art column, branching out into the multimedia world in the form of a bespoke video series exploring ... Read more »| 17 Jun 2014 -
Music
Moebius Story Leidecker – Snowghost Pieces
The new album by Cluster co-founder Dieter Moebius in collaboration with American composers and electronic producers Tim Story and Jon Leidecker (Negati... Read more »| 17 Jun 2014 -
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Demdike Stare / Nate Young @ The Art School, 14 June
There’s a point in Wolf Eyes alum Nate Young’s set where he seems satisfied with the unearthly, feedback-drenched howls of static and the rumblin... Read more »| 17 Jun 2014 -
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Television @ O2 ABC, Glasgow, 14 June
Despite the billing, Television don’t actually perform Marquee Moon tonight – not exactly. Yes, all eight of its songs feature, but the tracklist... Read more »| 17 Jun 2014 -
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Wye Oak @ King Tut's, Glasgow, 13 June
Tonight, Wye Oak’s sound echoes their stage setup: lots of space, lots of room to breathe. The Baltimore duo lean heavily on new album Shriek, letting ... Read more »| 17 Jun 2014