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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ComedyCrystal Baws: June 2016 Horoscopes
Mystic Mark is back with his June predictions Read more »| 06 Jun 2016 -
Music
Evolve or Die: Parquet Courts interviewed
After ambitious experiments and "vitriolic" reviews, Parquet Courts aren't about your approval. Austin Brown tells The Skinny about the band's push for progress. Read more »| 06 Jun 2016 -
MusicDown the Front: Bruce Springsteen returns to Hampden
Under a blistering sun, The Boss took the Hampden hordes on a characteristically epic nostalgia tour of his 1980 blue collar rock opus The River this pa... Read more »| 03 Jun 2016 -
Books
Poetry News – Scotland, June 2016
This month we speak to Jenny Lindsay about the end of Skinny favourite Rally & Broad, and the projects to rise from its ashes, before looking at the work of comedy-poet-libertine Mark Waddell Read more »| 03 Jun 2016 -
ComedyLet’s talk about sex, with comedian Sara Pascoe
Sara Pascoe picked up an Edinburgh Comedy Award nomination in 2014 for a show themed on sexual evolutionary history. Now she's written a book on the same theme Read more »| 03 Jun 2016 -
Clubs
Kickflip Mike DJ Mix – Skinned #14
Bushy-tailed Berliner Joschka Seibt, aka Kickflip Mike, steps up for our mix series ahead of a new EP and date at Gottwood – hot stuff all round Read more »| 03 Jun 2016
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Music
Raised by Wolves: Introducing Kaspar Hauser
When is a goth band not a goth band? We meet Glasgow’s Kaspar Hauser in an attempt to find out. Read more »| 03 Jun 2016 -
ClubsScottish Clubbing Highlights – June 2016
Green Velvet in Glasgow, Andy Weatherall in Edinburgh... and that's before we get to Summer Skank Out in Dundee – another busy month for your clubbing calendar. Read more »| 03 Jun 2016 -
Music
Kindness on Missy Elliott and Jay Sean
Before Kindness – aka producer, musician and collaborator extraordinaire Adam Bainbridge – returns to the UK for a string of DJ dates, he hits shuffle on his arsenal and talks us through the first ten tracks, Missy Elliott trilogy and all. Read more »| 03 Jun 2016 -
Music
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds resurface with Skeleton Tree
Last seen with 2013's majestic Push the Sky Away and subsequent documentary 20,000 Days on Earth, Aussie legends Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will releas... Read more »| 02 Jun 2016 -
Music
Recall of the Wild: Wolf Parade return
As Wolf Parade return from hiatus with a new EP and their first live shows in five years, Dan Boeckner gives us the lowdown on reunions, ghost-hunting and im... Read more »| 02 Jun 2016 -
Art
Art in Lancashire: June 2016
From studies of Felix the Cat to degree shows and absurdist explorations, there's plenty to get excited about at Lancashire's galleries and exhibition spaces this month Read more »| 02 Jun 2016 -
Music
The Mystery Lights – The Mystery Lights
Positives: expertly played, genuinely soulful and more grooves than Sandanista! on vinyl. Negatives: we've been here before. And haven’t we just? ... Read more »| 02 Jun 2016 -
Music
SAY Award 2016: A guide to the longlist
A victor for the 2016 Scottish Album of the Year Award will be announced in Paisley on 29 June. But before that, the longlist of 20 albums must be whittled down to 10 – and you can play your part. We cast an ear over the hopefuls Read more »| 02 Jun 2016 -
Clubs
Guest Selector: François K
DJ, producer, engineer and all-round studio wizard François Kevorkian offers a tantalising glimpse into his innermost musical joys. Read more »| 02 Jun 2016