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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MusicPapa M – Highway Songs
As comebacks go, you can file this one under 'unexpected' – but also 'welcome' and 'a relief'. David Pajo's own work hasn't been seen since his un... Read more »| 02 Nov 2016 -
MusicAmerican Wrestlers – Goodbye Terrible Youth
What’s that old adage about it taking ten years to become an overnight success? It could very easily apply to Gary McClure, the Scottish frontman of Am... Read more »| 02 Nov 2016 -
MusicThe Pop Group - Honeymoon on Mars
Albums by The Pop Group are like buses: you wait 35 years for one and then two come along at once. At least that was the size of the gap between their 1980 s... Read more »| 02 Nov 2016 -
Clubs
Glasgow Clubbing Highlights: 2-8 Nov
This week offers up garage and jungle at Flat 0/1, plus Rush Hour alumni Hunee lights up Sub Club and your monthly dose of Supermax arrives on Bonfire Night Read more »| 02 Nov 2016 -
Clubs
Edinburgh Clubbing Highlights: 2-8 Nov
Bonfire Night heats up with Gasoline Dance Machine at Cabaret Voltaire and elsewhere, Radio 1 DJ B. Traits and Spanish veteran Oscar Mulero also pay visits to the capital Read more »| 02 Nov 2016 -
Music
Mums – Land of Giants
Mums restrain themselves for all of about 50 seconds of their debut LP before opener Underneath Rocks’ hushed intro collapses amidst a landslide of mul... Read more »| 02 Nov 2016
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Music
Biff-spiration: Biffy Clyro's influences
On the eve of a huge UK stadium tour, Biffy Clyro's Ben Johnston shares some of their surprising influences (hiya Beyoncé) on their most experimental, eclectic album to date – Ellipsis Read more »| 02 Nov 2016 -
Music
Sad13 – Slugger
'I say yes to the dress when I put it on / I say yes if I want you to take it off / If you want to, you’ve gotta get a yes.' God, how good does it feel... Read more »| 02 Nov 2016 -
Film
Loving the Alien: Amy Adams on Arrival
Amy Adams can do it all. She can sing, she can dance, and now, in new sci-fi film Arrival, she can talk to aliens. We here from this talented actor when she recently attended the London Film Festival. Read more »| 02 Nov 2016 -
Clubs
Guest Selector: Moscoman
Moscoman takes us on a tour of Tel Aviv's best clubbing locations, and shares ten of the best tracks from his homeland ahead of the release of his Subaru Pes... Read more »| 02 Nov 2016 -
Music
An Education in Scottish Grime
As we catch up with Shogun for this month's cover feature – read our interview with the Paisley MC here – here's a look at four more of the ... Read more »| 02 Nov 2016 -
Music
Under the Influence: XAM Duo
A guide to ambient music, culled from the record collections that informed XAM Duo's debut album Read more »| 02 Nov 2016 -
Comedy
Rob Mulholland: Comedy Spotlight
He won Manchester's famed Beat the Frog competition in 2015, but reckons he could beat a rhino, too Read more »| 02 Nov 2016 -
Music
Epic Sail: An interview with Baltic Fleet
DIY producer Paul Fleming, aka Baltic Fleet, scooped the 2013 GIT Award before disappearing from the public eye – here he tells us about success, Lanca... Read more »| 01 Nov 2016 -
Music
Glass Animals / PIXX @ The Art School, 26 October
Last seen in Glasgow earlier this year, and with a string of festival appearances in the meantime, the elfin PIXX’s growing confidence as a performer i... Read more »| 01 Nov 2016