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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MusicSouthern Tenant Folk Union – The Chuck Norris Project
Concept albums tend to divide opinion. The best reveal a loose theme that binds songs, but a rigid template can as easily suffocate creativity as inspire it.... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015 -
BooksEuphoria by Lily King
We start with an ominous shape, a pale brown thing being thrown at a canoe. The shape may be a baby, discarded by the murderous Mumbanyo tribe, but our prota... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015 -
MusicJo Bartlett – 9 x 7
It's difficult now to imagine just how marginalised the UK alt-folk scene was at the turn of the century. Plaid shirts, boutique festivals and Laura Marling ... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015 -
MusicFlug 8 – Trans Atlantik
“Krautey-housey-techno” is how producer and DJ Daniel Herrmann (here in his on-off Flug 8 guise) describes his uncompromising, minimal beats. Now... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015 -
FilmNational Gallery
Frederick Wiseman spent months editing the reams of footage he shot on location, but what's remarkable about the finished product is how effortless it feels.... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015 -
Music
Tanya Tagaq – Animism
It wrong-foots from the off and then, once you're fully disoriented, abandons you to your own devices. Tanya Tagaq's third album hits UK shelves fresh from e... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015
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Music
Dan Mangan + Blacksmith – Club Meds
For someone whose award-winning solo efforts were already full of charming heft, Dan Mangan’s first ostensible outing with the full band Blacksmith (th... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015 -
Music
Sleater-Kinney – No Cities to Love
Recorded in secret in early 2014, seven years after they began their 'extended hiatus,' No Cities to Love is as daring and playful as its head-spinning prove... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015 -
Film
Foxcatcher
With Foxcatcher, director Bennett Miller (Capote, Moneyball) explores the odd, tense relationship between brothers and Olympic champion wrestlers Mark and Da... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015 -
Books
Behind God's Back by Harri Nykänen
A businessman gets shot on his doorstep in Helsinki one morning, and this apparently simple homicide lights up a web of connections and corruption that leads... Read more »| 02 Jan 2015 -
Clubs
Clubbing Highlights Scotland – January 2015
We kick off the new year with a look forward to Jasper James, Mr Mitch and Neville Watson Read more »| 02 Jan 2015 -
Art
Art from Elsewhere @ GoMA, Glasgow
Hayward Touring have two major exhibitions currently making the rounds in the UK. The first, Listening, explores the act of listening through 17 contemporary... Read more »| 01 Jan 2015 -
Art
Transmitting Andy Warhol @ Tate Liverpool
Rather than focusing on a particular genre of Warhol’s immense output, the packed Transmitting Andy Warhol exhibition includes more than 100 works and ... Read more »| 01 Jan 2015 -
Clubs
Northwest Clubbing Highlights – January 2015
A fairly sparse month in clubbingdom as people across the land try to keep their resolution not to get completely arseholed Read more »| 01 Jan 2015 -
Film
Scotland Film Event Highlights – January 2015
A new year of cinema kicks off with a series of adventure docs and a celebration of teen movies Read more »| 01 Jan 2015