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: Paradise, Integrity, and the Festival
Here's this week's openings and exhibition launches; there are tough decisions to make at the Edinburgh Art Festival and across in Glasgow, while in Dundee there's something a bit Mary Poppins-esque going on. Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
MusicChelsea Wolfe – Abyss
Density, weight and punishing intensity threaten to entirely submerge Chelsea Wolfe’s fourth album in a cloak of gothic camouflage. But peer behind the... Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
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3 Women
Reportedly inspired by a dream, 3 Women represents Robert Altman at his most experimental – the film’s eerie underwater shots (or, more technical... Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
FilmStalag 17
Greater than The Great Escape, American prisoner of war tale Stalag 17 is a darkly comic theatre adaptation from director Billy Wilder. Simultaneously fiery ... Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
TheatreLove's Labour's Lost @ Bard in the Botanics
Year in, year out, Bard in the Botanics has to contend with the Glaswegian weather, and the cast of this year’s Love’s Labour’s Lost must b... Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
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The Telescopes – Hidden Fields
Behold thy glorious racket. In their various guises, psych veterans The Telescopes have constantly forged routes between the tropes of melodic shoegaze and a... Read more »| 28 Jul 2015
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MusicAgent Fresco – Destrier
This Icelandic four-piece have a lot on their plate: metal-tinged falsetto, shuffling math-rock, blown-out prog, twinkling keys and a sprinkling of uncomfort... Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
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Lorna – London's Leaving Me
London’s Leaving Me is Nottingham band Lorna’s fifth record, and it’s really lovely. Gentle, warming and sun-lit, there’s an endearin... Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
Music
Simon Love – It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time
Simon Love, previously of indie band The Loves, has gone solo and the result is bonkers. Juvenile, derivative and brow-scrunchingly odd – there&rs... Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
Film
The Skinny Short Film Competition 2015 Shortlist
We're delighted to announce the shortlist of films in contention for The Skinny Short Film Competition 2015. Following our inaugural 2014 competition, ... Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
Music
The Mynabirds – Lovers Know
After finishing her role as keyboardist on The Postal Service’s reunion tour, Laura Burhenn travelled the world to find herself again. Recorded over th... Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
Film
Cemetery Without Crosses
Revenge plots have an appealing simplicity – they clarify everyone's motivation and streamline the story towards its inevitable conclusion. Their spars... Read more »| 27 Jul 2015 -
Film
Ana Lily Amirpour on her Iranian vampire Western
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Ana Lily Amirpour's tale of a righteous, chador-clad vampire who's cleaning up her one horse town, is the year's most beguiling movie. She tells us about the film's influences ahead of its UK DVD release Read more »| 27 Jul 2015 -
Film
Best of Enemies
Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon's gripping doc is structured like a boxing movie, but in this case the pugilists are intellectual heavyweights. In the ... Read more »| 24 Jul 2015 -
Music
Titus Andronicus – The Most Lamentable Tragedy
In 2010, Titus Andronicus released The Monitor, a record which took the concept of the American Civil War and used it as an allegory for modern life as an un... Read more »| 24 Jul 2015