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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ClubsNorthwest Clubbing Highlights – October 2015
We preview the best club nights in the Northwest, including visits from Quantic and Red Eye Hi Fi. Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
Clubs
Scottish Clubbing Highlights – October 2015
Willie Burns comes to Glasgow and Serge visits Edinburgh as we preview the month's best clubs in Scotland. Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
MusicVASA – Colours
Post-rock, apparently, although we can probably lose the ‘post’ part – Colours rawks wholeheartedly, if not life-changingly, construct... Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
Music
Low's Alan Sparhawk on Ones and Sixes
It's been a mere two years since we last heard from Low, but their swift return presents a more intense sound and a cerebral, mysterious theme. Alan Sparhawk examines the figures that make up Ones and Sixes Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
Music
John Carpenter – Lost Themes Remixed
A glorious paean to the science fiction soundtracks of our youth, legendary sci-fi and horror director John Carpenter’s Lost Themes, released earlier t... Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
MusicRival Consoles – Howl
Titles can be deceptive; there’s little to imply angst or anguish in Ryan Lee West’s cerebral, ambidextrous electronica. Instead, the third full-... Read more »| 06 Oct 2015
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MusicHere We Go Magic – Be Small
Here We Go Magic’s line-up may have undergone a significant reshuffle since the release of 2012’s acclaimed A Different Ship, but despite this tr... Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
Music
Dinosaur Pile-Up – Eleven Eleven
You needn’t be a paleontologist to suss Dinosaur Pile-Up’s sonic ancestry. Their third outing – another solid offering of crisp power-... Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
Art
This Week in Scottish Art: Good Press, Jarman Award
Good Press mark their fourth birthday, the Jarman and BP Portrait Awards head to Glasgow and Edinburgh, plus details of a host of new shows and events at galleries across Scotland in our weekly art guide. Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
Film
Scotland Film Event Highlights – October 2015
Light and shade this month, with Halloween screenings and a celebration of love at Paisley Abbey Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
Books
City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
Garth Risk Hallberg's first full novel, City on Fire, has been compared to Don DeLillo's masterpiece, Underworld Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
Theatre
Waiting for Godot @ The Lyceum, Edinburgh, 22 Sep
Even 60 years on, Samuel Beckett's subversive Waiting for Godot still manages to provoke and unsettle. Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
Music
Dave Heumann – Here in the Deep
Autumn. And as if to mark the occasion, the debut solo LP from the Arbouretum frontman arrives shaded in earthy, feuille-morte introspection, like a WB Yeats... Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
Music
Larry Gus – I Need New Eyes
If anyone’s got a handle on life, you’d think it’d be musicians – right? Not if they’re Larry Gus, apparently. Convinced o... Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
Books
Endgame by Ahmet Altan
Turkish author and journalist Ahmet Altan makes his English language debut with Endgame, originally published in Turkish as Son Oyun Read more »| 05 Oct 2015