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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FilmBarry Jenkins on Moonlight
Director Barry Jenkins talks us through its inception of the gorgeous character study Moonlight Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
Music
Taupe – A Clown Drools: Video Premiere
Taupe, Newcastle’s resident chaotic punk-jazz maestros, release their second album Fill Up Your Lungs and Bellow on 24 Feb ahead of a UK tour playing d... Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
MusicSix Organs of Admittance – Burning the Threshold
One can’t keep the prodigious guitarist Ben Chasny quiet for long. Since 1998 Chasny has had a prolific output, releasing a Six Organs of Admittance re... Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
FilmBlack Movies Matter: breakout black American cinema
Denzel Washington’s Oscar-nominated Fences is in cinemas, the latest in a breakout year for black American film For two years running, the Acade... Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
Music
UKAEA – Precinct's Goin Off: Track Premiere
Listen to a new track from techno producer UKAEA, taken from a new series of tape releases by Liverpool label Pale Master Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
MusicThe Coral's Lee Southall unveils debut solo album
Listen to a new track from the ex-Coral guitarist Read more »| 10 Feb 2017
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Film
Prevenge
Alice Lowe directs and stars in this darkly comic tale of a pregnant woman with murder on her gestating foetus’s mind Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
Music
Nadia Reid on folk, women in music & Preservation
The Skinny catch up with New Zealander Nadia Reid ahead of her UK and European tour celebrating the release of sophomore album Preservation When we catch up... Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
Music
Los Campesinos! on Sick Scenes
We speak to Los Campesinos!' Gareth David about life, the universe and everything Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
Music
Meursault – I Will Kill Again
When main protagonist Neil Pennycook called time on Meursault in 2014 after three albums proper, fans hoped it wouldn't be the last they'd hear from him. Tra... Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
Theatre
Sanitise @ Traverse Theatre
Sanitise by Jordan & Skinner is an ably performed, neatly designed performance concerned with the need for cleanliness in one woman’s life. Charged... Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
Music
Cymbals Eat Guitars @ Electric Circus, 7 Feb
Due to an unforeseeable illness, the assembled crowd at Electric Circus are to be treated to an unexpected “solo set”. Details are scant and, as ... Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
Film
What Fifty Shades can learn from Secretary
Inspired by GFF’s screening of Steven Shainberg’s Secretary and this month’s release of the Fifty Shades sequel, we look at the lessons the modern spankbuster could learn from the 2002 cult classic. Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
Music
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – The Tourist
Think of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and you'll likely remember their eponymous debut album from 2005, characterised by Alec Ounsworth's distinctive warble on t... Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
Clubs
Glasgow Clubbing Highlights: 9-15 Feb
Minimal Wave label boss Veronica Vasicka brings the sounds of synth wave to Glasgow this weekend, plus The Poetry Club kicks off a new residency and Denis Sulta gives us a reason to hit the dancefloor on Valentine's Day Read more »| 09 Feb 2017