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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FilmFive to see at GFF, 26 Feb: Top Gun & more
A day of horror movies (FrightFest), artists' films (Laurie Anderson’s Heart of a Dog, Ben Rivers' The Sky Trembles...) and bombastic 80s homoerotica&n... Read more »| 26 Feb 2016 -
MusicJames – Girl at the End of the World
James enter their fourth decade with at least a sliver of their original, dissident character intact. Girl at the End of the World is, on one level, mor... Read more »| 26 Feb 2016 -
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Deniz Gamze Ergüven on Mustang
Deniz Gamze Ergüven ruffles feathers with her spiky coming-of-age tale following five young girls who are demonised in a remote Turkish village. She discusses the controversy Read more »| 26 Feb 2016 -
BooksIrvine Welsh & Robert Carlyle set for Edinburgh Q&A
Irvine Welsh will launch his new novel The Blade Artist in conversation with Robert Carlyle at an event in Edinburgh in April. The Blade Artist reprises the... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
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Matthew Bourne – Moogmemory
The improvisational pianist, composer and winner of 2001's Perrier Jazz Award takes a step aside from his multiple collaborative projects to immerse himself ... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
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Mugstar – Magnetic Seasons
Heavyweight psychedelic Liverpudlians Mugstar return with a record that takes tripped-out space rock to its disorienting maximum. Exclusively instrumental (a... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016
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MusicRichard J Birkin – Vigils
Inspired by river mist and Murakami, and carrying echoes of Nils Frahm and Max Richter’s Sleep, sound artist/composer Birkin’s new work is behold... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
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Wintersleep – The Great Detachment
Now a decade and a half into their career, the typically dependable Canadian rockers return with their first LP since 2012's Hello Hum. Produced by Tony... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
MusicM. Ward – More Rain
If you’re scanning these pages for a record your granny might be into, this is the one. Also known for his work alongside Zooey Deschanel as the other ... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
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Låpsley – Long Way Home
Despite making her name, initially, with spectral, minimalist bedroom productions, Liverpudlian artist Låpsley explores new territory on her debut Long... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
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Chin of Britain – The Weasel is at the Bridge
Get into the groove. The follow-up to Chin Keeler's 2013 debut is a pared-down, trippy brew of bracing beats and spiralling wig-outs. As ever, Keeler pl... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
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Five to see at GFF, 25 Feb: Wild at Heart & more
Today at Glasgow Film Festival, join Nic Cage and Laura Dern on the run in Wild at Heart and Kate Dickie and Paul Higgins in a cave in Couple in a Hole, plus... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
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Wussy – Forever Sounds
Back in 2012, Robert Christgau, self-proclaimed Dean of American rock critics, said Wussy “have been the best band in America since they released the f... Read more »| 25 Feb 2016 -
Books
"We have religion because we’re mortal" - Yann Martel
The Skinny catches up with the Booker Prize winning Life of Pi author while touring his new novel The High Mountains of Portugal. He talks life and death, animals and religion – from that now famous maritime Tiger, to his new chimp star Read more »| 24 Feb 2016 -
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Savages / Bo Ningen @ The Art School, 21 Feb
Savages’ sound check starts, and a heavy, heavy kick-drum reverberates through everyone’s stomachs. “Ooft,” gasps a very bearded man,... Read more »| 24 Feb 2016