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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FilmAin't Them Bodies Saints
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints might ultimately be a triumph of craft over content, but when the craft is this impressive it seems churlish to complain. Davi... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
Music
Hookworms' MJ on transcending "rubbish garage bands"
Following the release of their debut album Pearl Mystic and ahead of their appearance at Liverpool Psych Fest, Hookworms' MJ talks – or tries not to – about noise and necessity Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
BooksThe Art of Science: Jane Rogers & Ailís Ní Ríain
Ahead of their performances at Manchester Literature Festival, we talk to writer Jane Rogers and playwright and composer Ailís Ní Ríain about their recent work and the relationship between science and art Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
Music
Thundercat @ The Poetry Club, Glasgow, 24 August
Marrying the far-flung explorations of cosmic jazz with contemporary innovation in electronica is an ambitious project, but that’s what Stephen Bruner ... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
MusicScotland Gig Highlights – September 2013
A whirlwind tour of the coming month's must-see live shows, with Eels, Fuck Buttons, Neon Neon, 65daysofstatic, the Human Is Not Alone project, an epic 3-day experimental music shindig, and a boatload more Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – September 2013
With bands back in business after a summer spent glugging grog in ditches, and with the return of The Warehouse Project, September brings the big guns in all genres, from Dinosaur Jr. to James Blake – and goddammit if we're gonna ignore Paramore Read more »| 02 Sep 2013
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ClubsNorthwest Clubbing Highlights – September 2013
Fresher? Addled second-year? Panicking third-year? Either way, order your books second-hand and instead blow your loan on Plastician, Bondax, Seth Troxler and Auntie Flo Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
Books
The Guts by Roddy Doyle
Since we first encountered Jimmy Rabbitte, the godfather of The Commitments has acquired a wife, four kids, a dog called Messi and bowel cancer. Characterist... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
Music
O2 Love Music Column – September 2013
September brings with it a sense of riddim, at least at the ABC; but before we get to the more rasta-inclined of what's on offer over the next four weeks, we... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
Theatre
If these spasms could speak @ Pleasance
Robert Softley's play If these spasms could speak tells the story of day-to-day life for people with disabilities through their eyes. It explores the di... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: September 2013 Horoscopes
ARIES All those hours under a microscope carving your CV in tiny hieroglyphs onto chicken beaks comes to nothing. Not a single employer even bothers to reply... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
Theatre
Dunsinane on Tour
The National Theatre of Scotland and the Royal Shakespeare Company are bringing back David Greig’s incredibly compelling, thought provoking, Scottish p... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
ClubsClubbing Highlights – September 2013
This month’s more compact highlights column packs in the likes of UK techno icon Regis, bass music producer Addison Groove and booty-goading ghetto house showman DJ Funk... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
Books
Flesh Wounds by Chris Brookmyre
With Flesh Wounds, Brookmyre returns to the more emotionally nuanced Glasgow crime world of Where the Bodies are Buried and When the Devil Drives (signalled,... Read more »| 30 Aug 2013 -
Film
About Time
Richard Curtis rounds off his trust fund trilogy with weddings (not four, thankfully) and love (not actually, mercifully) in this return to the vanilla, uppe... Read more »| 30 Aug 2013