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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FilmDavid Mackenzie: Trying to Avoid Genre
Scottish filmmaker David Mackenzie, director of Young Adam, Perfect Sense and Starred Up, talks genre, atmosphere and shooting under pressure ahead of the re... Read more »| 06 Sep 2016 -
MusicHollie McNish interviews Charlotte Church
Hollie McNish meeting Charlotte Church is quite frankly something that needed to happen for the good of the world. As arts collective Neu! Reekie! prepare to... Read more »| 06 Sep 2016 -
BooksEve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi
This slim volume is such a harrowing experience, some may balk at continuing once the fate of the titular Eve becomes clear. Translated from Mauritian writer... Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
MusicThe Here and Now: Interview with Teenage Fanclub
The Skinny meets Norman Blake in Glasgow to discuss Teenage Fanclub's impressive pop trajectory Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
Books
Jonathan Safran Foer on Here I Am
Here I Am is being declared Jonathan Safran Foer's masterpiece: a term he will hear nothing of. He discusses the controversies a book which features a Middle... Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
Music
Fuzzkill Records on Freakender 2016
Ross Keppie started Fuzzkill Records while living in Shetland in 2013. Three years and a move to Glasgow later, it's one of the hottest DIY labels in the country and co-running Freakender – a three-day festival of psych and garage rock Read more »| 05 Sep 2016
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Art
In Design: The Print Project
As part of our series looking at great design in the North, we speak to The Print Project, who've spent the last six years making stunning art... Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
Music
Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop @ RNCM, 31 Aug
Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop take to the stage of the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester as if burnished with gold. It might be a subtle effect achieve... Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
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Taika Waititi on Hunt for the Wilderpeople
From the set of Marvel's latest movie, Taika Waititi takes a break from shooting Thor: Ragnarok to discuss his thrilling indie coming-of-age film Hunt for the Wilderpeople Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
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CCA Highlights - Sep/Oct 2016
We’ve a couple of months of dissidence coming up at Glasgow’s CCA in September and October, with artists, musicians, indie labels and festival curators who are kicking back against the tentacles of capitalism and social inequality in our society Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
Music
Endless Adolescence: Teenage Fanclub vs TeenCanteen
Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub and Carla J Easton from TeenCanteen quiz each other on the power of Glaswegian harmonies Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
Music
Teenage Fanclub – Here
For a while it looked like we’d heard the last of Teenage Fanclub. Shadows, released at the onset of their third decade together, found the band 'waiti... Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
Film
Matinee
Joe Dante's 1993 film Matinee, a celebration of art over war, movies over Armageddon, is the closest thing the Gremlins director has to a lost masterpiece. S... Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
Books
Turning Blue by Benjamin Myers
The new book from last year's Portico Prize winner is a tour de force of stark horror writing Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
Music
TeenCanteen – Say It All With A Kiss
Never ones to deny us of a singalong chorus, TeenCanteen’s debut album Say It All with a Kiss is packed full of infectiously catchy, sing-into-you... Read more »| 05 Sep 2016