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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FilmRadiator wins Glasgow Film Festival audience award
It was announced on Sunday that Tom Browne’s debut feature Radiator has won the first Glasgow Film Festival audience award. The film – which foc... Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
ClubsNorthwest Clubbing Highlights – March 2015
Pisces rejoice: seemingly every night in the Northwest is celebrating their birthday this month, and a range of dignitaries from the house and techno illuminati will grace our dingy basements to toast them Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
MusicCourtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
She’s a smart one, Courtney Barnett. Like all the best observational lyricists, she can summon – or at least suggest – profundity in t... Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
Books
Mark Ellen: Pop Court Chronicler
Mark Ellen has documented late 20th century pop music's biggest moments in his memoir Rock Stars Stole My Life! Here he regales us with tales of those times and offers a lament on why modern day stars just don't cut the mustard (or anything else) Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
Music
Modest Mouse – Strangers To Ourselves
Eight years, eh? Modest Mouse finally return, unscathed – indeed, unMarred – by lineup changes and relocations, and the inclusion of some electro... Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
Music
Sacred Paws – Six Songs EP
Guitar, drums and two vocals; the Sacred Paws line-up couldn't be more straightforward. But their first proper release after being signed by Mogwai's Rock Ac... Read more »| 04 Mar 2015
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Music
The Go! Team – The Scene Between
Ian Parton began The Go! Team as a home studio project – he recorded 2004 debut Thunder, Lightning, Strike in his parent's kitchen – an... Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
MusicErrors – Lease of Life
It can be all too easy to let an album’s artwork inform your appreciation of the music in imaginary ways, like some kind of reverse Rorschach inkb... Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
MusicThe Monochrome Set – Spaces Everywhere
The injustices wrought by the fallout of the UK's post-punk explosion are infamous and many. While mavericks such as Wire and The Fall secured a loyal audien... Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
Books
The Well by Catherine Chanter
The Well opens with a woman under house arrest. Ruth, our protagonist and narrator, is restricted to her farm in Wales. Named The Well, it is beautiful, lone... Read more »| 03 Mar 2015 -
Music
Ibibio Sound Machine confirmed for Africa Oyé 2015
London-based Ibibio Sound Machine have been confirmed for the 23rd edition of Liverpool's Africa Oyé festival, taking place this June in the city's Se... Read more »| 03 Mar 2015 -
Art
Polymaths, A Home Show, and Bacon Scissors: This Week in Scottish Art
There's plenty of diverse art events this week, including curator-slash-band duo WE's concert and breakfast talk, Project Ability's international showcase and a couple of Slade graduates' open house exhibition among others. Read more »| 03 Mar 2015 -
Music
Deerhoof @ Stereo, Glasgow, 24 February
It’s an odd choice for an opener. Mirror Monster, the phantasmic second track from Deerhoof’s most recent album La Isla Bonita, begins with an et... Read more »| 03 Mar 2015 -
Music
Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat – The Most Important Place In The World
It’s twenty years since Arab Strap first enabled Aidan Moffat to demonstrate his talent for extracting sage poetry from the seediest of situations, pro... Read more »| 03 Mar 2015 -
Music
Matthew E. White – Fresh Blood
With 50 Shades still filling cinemas, “let me sleep in your tent tonight” is far from the most salacious request you might hear this month, but p... Read more »| 03 Mar 2015