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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MusicThom Yorke, Four Tet + Daphni @ The Warehouse Project, Manchester, 2 November
A combination of Victoria Warehouse's 5000 capacity, the necessary stepping up of security with the venue move from beneath Piccadilly railway station i... Read more »| 07 Nov 2013 -
MusicFuture Of The Left @ Broadcast, 2 November
Visibly startled by the sweltering, heaving, meat-patty of bodies, unceremoniously crammed into tonight's capacity show at Broadcast, Future Of The Left join... Read more »| 06 Nov 2013 -
Music
Bill Orcutt / With Lumps @ The Glad Cafe, 1 November
Bill Orcutt’s following may not be large, but it makes up for that in sheer reverence and awe. The former guitarist in Miami noise legends Harry Pussy ... Read more »| 06 Nov 2013 -
Film
Hero Worship: Jacque Fresco
Filmmaker Maja Borg chooses 98-year-old futurist Jacque Fresco as her hero. She admires him so much, in fact, that she's made two films about him Read more »| 06 Nov 2013 -
Film
8½
Eight and a half films into his career, Fellini decided it was time to turn the camera inward. 8½ is a portrait of a creatively blocked filmmaker... Read more »| 06 Nov 2013 -
Music
Shearwater – Fellow Travelers
Like live albums and B-side compilations, cover version LPs usually occupy a fringe position in an artist’s discography, and Fellow Travelers is no dif... Read more »| 06 Nov 2013
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MusicDead Flowers – Midnight At The Wheel Club
Ian Williams' vocal influences are easy enough to spot – Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave have all clearly been imbibed, imitated and revere... Read more »| 06 Nov 2013 -
MusicParquet Courts / Eagulls @ Mono, 31 October
Despite heavy reverb obscuring much of George Mitchell’s between-song speech, body language and delivery indicate the vocalist is not in the best of mo... Read more »| 05 Nov 2013 -
Music
Honeyblood / Laura St Jude / Bite @ Broadcast, 29 October
Broadcast tonight hosts three bands who differ in sound though are united in their potential to make a noise in places much further afield than the rough end... Read more »| 05 Nov 2013 -
Theatre
Burlesque: Subversive or not?
Is Burlesque still subversive? Or is it just porn for middle class people? Our Theatre Editor gets his dictionary out for the crowd Read more »| 05 Nov 2013 -
Art
CultureLabel: A Very Scottish Collection
A look at online art retailer CultureLabel's new Scottish collection, featuring such luminaries as Jeremy Deller, Martin Boyce and Rachel Whitehead Read more »| 05 Nov 2013 -
Music
LA Songwriter Julia Holter on Gigi, Lynch and Loud City Song
Julia Holter's previous albums have explored poetry and Greek tragedy. The LA songwriter and composer talks to us about how, with its themes of celebrity and the loss of love, a 1950s musical has influenced her new LP, Loud City Song Read more »| 04 Nov 2013 -
Music
M.I.A. – Matangi
M.I.A. returns with a new album, this time with production masterminded in the main by longtime collaborator, Switch. It's as alternately as dark, steamy and... Read more »| 04 Nov 2013 -
Theatre
Summerhall: Winter Season
In the last year, Edinburgh's Summerhall has come into its own, creating a hub where the worlds of art, theatre, tech and eh brewing can collide. Its winter programme offers an array of theatrical darkness, a refreshing alternative to the impending panto Read more »| 04 Nov 2013 -
Art
Starter for 6: PeterWardDesign
Based in Glasgow, PeterWardDesign specialises in sustainable furniture and products which are all locally designed and manufactured in the city. "I've... Read more »| 04 Nov 2013