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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ComedyRussell Brand: Messiah Complex @ Liverpool Echo Arena, 15 Feb
There aren’t many comics that can get away with calling Mahatma Gandhi a “f*ckin’ snide”, but Russell Brand sets up his premise with ... Read more »| 07 Mar 2014 -
Music
T Break: United Fruit and Hector Bizerk look back
As T Break opens for submissions from Scotland's up-and-coming bands, United Fruit's Marco Panagopoulos and Hector Bizerk's Louie tell us what playing the showcase stage at T in the Park did for their careers Read more »| 07 Mar 2014 -
ComedyJack Whitehall @ The Lowry, 24 Feb
The man christened ‘King of Comedy’ at the 2013 British Comedy Awards was honing his material on Monday night prior to embarking on a big arena t... Read more »| 07 Mar 2014 -
FilmShort Term 12
Director Destin Cretton based Short Term 12 on his own experiences working in a foster care facility for at-risk teenagers, and it shows. His drama docu... Read more »| 07 Mar 2014 -
Film
Film News: Zack Snyder on Terry Gilliam's Watchmen; BBC Three goes online-only, and more
A round-up of film news, casting rumours and trailers, with Joel Silver and Zack Snyder on Terry Gilliam's version of Watchmen, the first look at Andre 3000 as Jimi Hendrix, Bryan Cranston on missing out on the role of Lex Luthor, and more Read more »| 06 Mar 2014 -
MusicCloud Sounds #8: Don't Mess With Texas
We speak exclusively to 'G' Hastings of Young Fathers about his band's SXSW appearance, and present a curated playlist of a few favourites playing at this year's festival, which kicks off tomorrow Read more »| 06 Mar 2014
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ComedyTony Law / Sofie Hagen / Liam Pickford @ Group Therapy, 22 Feb
It’s not without good reason that Tony Law’s latest show is titled Nonsense Overdrive. The slightly unhinged Canadian explodes on to the stage an... Read more »| 06 Mar 2014 -
Film
Mackenzie's Crooks: David Mackenzie on Starred Up
Director David Mackenzie tells us about working with up-and-coming star Jack O’Connell and the search for authenticity in his powerful prison drama Starred Up Read more »| 06 Mar 2014 -
Film
Sorcerer
A financial flop lost in the Star Wars summer of 1977, William Friedkin’s Sorcerer, long plagued by legal problems regarding distribution in its comple... Read more »| 06 Mar 2014 -
Clubs
DJ Chart: Leon Vynehall
Returning this month with an unreal seven track collection on Martyn's 3024 imprint, the Brighton-based beatsmith is firing on all cylinders right now Read more »| 06 Mar 2014 -
Music
Francois and the Atlas Mountains – Piano Ombre
A band picking up where a previous album left off can often be a point of frustration and the sound of a band stagnating, but in the case of Franç... Read more »| 06 Mar 2014 -
Music
Machines in Heaven – bordersbreakdown
The plentiful supply of electro-pop cascading from Glasgow shows no sign of drying up. With Miaoux Miaoux becoming the city's go-to producer and CHVRCHES n... Read more »| 05 Mar 2014 -
Music
Howling at the Moon: Future Islands' Samuel T. Herring navigates breakups and bruising tour schedules on Singles
The Baltimore trio return with an improbable synthpop masterpiece to revive a spiritless generation Read more »| 05 Mar 2014 -
Music
Claudio Simonetti's Goblin / Golden Teacher @ Òran Mór, 27 February
Glasgow's Golden Teacher haven't been given enough time to showcase their wares in this support slot. Each slab of their Afro-futurist house, filtered t... Read more »| 05 Mar 2014 -
Music
Jimi Goodwin – Odludek
Despite spending the best part of his career fronting a band named Doves, Jimi Goodwin isn’t a fan of inhabiting pigeonholes. He’s been talking u... Read more »| 05 Mar 2014