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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ArtThis Week in Scottish Art: LeithLate, EAF & more
It’s the concluding week of the Edinburgh Art Festival, so catch its final events along with openings and exhibitions in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee in our art round-up. Read more »| 25 Aug 2015 -
FilmCAUSTIC GULP wins The Skinny Short Film Competition
The Skinny are thrilled to reveal that the winner of our 2015 short film competition is CAUSTIC GULP from filmmaker Bryan M Ferguson. Read more »| 24 Aug 2015 -
MusicJames Brown is Annie @ The Jazz Bar, 17 August
Edinburgh outfit and Jazz Bar regulars James Brown is Annie play through their debut album, recorded on home soil with Average White Band's foundin... Read more »| 24 Aug 2015 -
Music
Oh, FFS: A Q&A with Alex Kapranos
Alex Kapranos used to listen to second-hand Sparks records while living in a grim pre-trendy Finnieston flat. Now the Franz Ferdinand frontman is making records with the Californian group under the name FFS. This is the full transcript of our interview. Read more »| 21 Aug 2015 -
Music
A Week in Records: Destroyer, Kagoule, Radkey
From Dan Bejar's exhilarating E Street homage to the snarling return of Sheffield techno anarchists The Black Dog, we run down five releases out today Read more »| 21 Aug 2015 -
Music
Japan Marvelous Drummers @ George Square Theatre, 18 August
"How is a drum solo like a sneeze?" an old joke goes. "You can tell when it's coming, but you can't do anything about it." And with Japan Marvelous Drummer... Read more »| 21 Aug 2015
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Music
Altered Beasts: Vessels Interviewed
As Vessels take latest album Dilate to the festival circuit, the compelling Leeds five-piece swap guitars for synths. They tell The Skinny why their switch to electronica should come as no surprise. Read more »| 21 Aug 2015 -
Art
Dismaland: Jessica Harrison on Banksy's exhibition
Dismaland, the major new exhibition curated by graffiti artist Banksy, opens tomorrow – we speak to exhibiting artist Jessica Harrison. Read more »| 20 Aug 2015 -
Music
Arthur Russell's Instrumentals @ Liverpool Kazimier, 11 August
If you’ve spent the past few years regularly attending gigs or clubs in Liverpool then chances are you would have heard the different sides of Arthur R... Read more »| 20 Aug 2015 -
MusicBlanck Mass joins Pleasance Sessions weekender
Blanck Mass will take the stage on a bill featuring RM Hubbert, Outblinker and BDY_PRTS for our night at this year’s Pleasance Sessions weekender in Edinburgh. Read more »| 20 Aug 2015 -
Clubs
The Garden Party turns 10
The Faversham’s much-loved Garden Party celebrates its tenth anniversary with a full-blown festival this month. The Skinny speaks to co-organiser Matt Long to find out more Read more »| 20 Aug 2015 -
Music
Track Premiere: Django Django vs The Phantom Band – 'Shake and Tremble'
The Phantom Band premiere their twist on Django Django's 'Shake and Tremble', from their latest album Born Under Saturn Read more »| 19 Aug 2015 -
Music
Pieces of a Man: A Gil Scott-Heron primer
Crunching four decades and 13 albums down into a greatest hits? We'd never dare. These are just a few stepping stones along the great poet's path Read more »| 19 Aug 2015 -
Film
Colors
Three years before Boyz n the Hood portrayed social problems in inner-city Los Angeles, Dennis Hopper’s Colors took a look at actual East LA gangs and ... Read more »| 19 Aug 2015 -
Film
State of Grace
Phil Joanou's Sean Penn-starring mob movie State of Grace was originally released around the same time as Goodfellas, so first time round it might as well ha... Read more »| 19 Aug 2015