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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ClubsOtherwordly Talent: Introducing Fergus Clark
Ahead of his performance alongside Optimo's JD Twitch for The Rum Shack’s 3rd birthday next month, we catch up with prodigal DJ talent Fergus Clark Read more »| 15 Sep 2017 -
BooksThe Readymade Thief by Augustus Rose
The stakes are low and the quality lower in Augustus Rose's trudge of a debut novel Read more »| 15 Sep 2017 -
Film
The Love of a Woman
This graceful romance is a fitting swan song for Jean Grémillon, one of France's finest filmmakers Read more »| 15 Sep 2017 -
Books
H(A)PPY by Nicola Barker
Nicola Barker's new novel is somehow altogether chilling and inspiring Read more »| 15 Sep 2017 -
BooksThe City Always Wins by Omar Robert Hamilton
A raw, powerful and relentlessly bleak look at the Egyptian political crisis Read more »| 15 Sep 2017 -
Film
Mother! and other recent visions of the apocalypse
Darren Aronofsky’s mother! is only the latest in a new slew of films which confront head on humanity’s relationship to the natural environment with a new tone of desperation and rage Read more »| 14 Sep 2017
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Film
The Big Knife
A compelling and vicious film noir about the seedy underbelly of Hollywood, directed by the great Robert Aldrich Read more »| 14 Sep 2017 -
FilmThe Ghoul
Physiological thriller The Ghoul shows its first time director Gareth Tunley is a filmmaker to keep an eye out for in the future Read more »| 14 Sep 2017 -
Theatre
West Kowloon Cultural District: International Co-Lab
Curator Low Kee Hong introduces West Kowloon Cultural District International Co-Lab programme Read more »| 14 Sep 2017 -
Clubs
Guest Selector: La La
FLY Club resident La La – aka Lauren Andrew – delves deep into her record collection to share ten tracks that have helped shape her musical tastes, from Motown and soul icons to 90s house hits Read more »| 14 Sep 2017 -
Music
Open Mike Eagle – Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
Brick Body Kids Still Daydream offers everything you’d expect from an Open Mike Eagle album and rivals Dark Comedy for the best in his catalogue Read more »| 14 Sep 2017 -
Tv RadioRichard Herring & 5 more great interview podcasts
In Pod People part 2, we take a look at Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast, and cast an eye further afield with our top five interview podcasts Read more »| 14 Sep 2017 -
Music
Ayakara – Caroline's Summer Nights (Track Premiere)
Listen to the new 'tragic pop song' from Leith five-piece Ayakara Read more »| 14 Sep 2017 -
Books
Sabrina Mahfouz & Iona Lee on women in poetry
National Poetry Day is on 28 September, with the 2017 theme of Freedom. The perfect opportunity then to speak with Iona Lee and Sabrina Mahfouz about the increasing volume of women's voices in the poetry scene Read more »| 14 Sep 2017 -
Comedy
Welcome to Night Vale returns to Glasgow
As the creepy and comedic Welcome to Night Vale podcast returns to Glasgow for its latest live show, we meet co-creator Joseph Fink and lead voice actors Cecil Baldwin and Meg Bashwiner Read more »| 13 Sep 2017