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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BooksAye Write! All Write: 10 Years of Literature in Glasgow
We discover how literary festival Aye Write! has become a key date in the Glasgow cultural calendar, speaking to its guest programmer and the writers who have grown with it: Louise Welsh, Christopher Brookmyre, Alan Bissett and his birthday suit. Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Books
Karin Altenberg: “I’ve always felt like an outsider”
We chat to bestselling author Karin Altenberg about her new book Breaking Light, and landscapes lost and found Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
MusicWhisky in the Water: Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard Interviewed
The Death Cab For Cutie frontman on surviving breaks and staying publicly personal for the band's eighth album Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Music
Nothing Ever Happens Here: Broken Records / Garden Of Elks / Fuzzystar @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 27 Mar
Can’t fault the folks behind Nothing Ever Happens Here for their noble intention to reignite the Edinburgh live music scene; enthusiastic cheers please... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
MusicBop English – Constant Bop
At first glance Constant Bop just looks like a sixties pastiche. From the pastel-washed cover to the cheesey title, this could pass for a lost Tim Buckl... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
BooksNorthwest Book Highlights – April 2015
A brand new poetry series launches in Liverpool this month, while non fiction and spoken word nights continue to thrive in Manchester Read more »| 31 Mar 2015
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Music
Sleater-Kinney @ Manchester Albert Hall, 24 March
This most potent of returns finally reaches the UK and manifests itself in a performance of extreme emotion: an experience that leaves both band and aud... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Art
In-situ in Pendle: When Will We Three...
As six new artists are announced for Pendle's in-situ residency, The Skinny travels to Brierfield to catch up with the founders and find out what's next for the organisation Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Clubs
Northwest Clubbing Highlights – April 2015
Balearic boat parties, plus visits from NTS residents and some techno heavyweights attempt to bring that speck of summer on the horizon a little closer Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Film
What We Do in the Shadows
A documentary crew follows the lives of four vampires living in a Wellington suburb. The key word here is ‘vampires’. Exchange it for ‘midw... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Music
Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
If 2010’s The Age Of Adz was Sufjan Stevens' bombastic all-action space opera, then Carrie & Lowell is his intimate, stripped-back, soul-barin... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
ArtRad Tunes, Pagan Mythology, and Science: This Week in Scottish Art
Starting this week in Glasgow, 1 Royal Terrace have launched their second programme of exhibitions, which curators Ruth Switalski and Peter Yxell have titled... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Music
Young Fathers – White Men Are Black Men Too
Young Fathers' White Men Are Black Men Too is a gargantuan, fearless record. It’s a celebration, a rebuttal, a call to action; a dance party that won&r... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Music
Villagers – Darling Arithmetic
Even the briefest scan of Conor O’Brien’s upcoming tour schedule screams – sorry, whispers – ‘intimate venues’ and sure e... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Music
Toro Y Moi – What For?
Is Chazwick Bundick – aka Toro Y Moi – going back in time? His 2010 debut Causers of the This, a key milestone in the risibly-named &ls... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015