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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FilmScotland Film Event Highlights – July 2013
Bask in the herky-jerky brilliance of stop motion master Ray Harryhausen at Filmhouse's retrospective; catch Edgar Wright's Blood and Ice Cream trilogy at Cameo; and sample the overlook lycanthrope movie Wolfen at DCA Read more »| 01 Jul 2013 -
Film
Northwest Film Event Highlights – July 2013
This month there’s an opportunity to watch Withnail & I in a location more remote than Monty’s cottage. There’s also a chance to attend a Q&A with Ben Wheatley about his new film A Field In England and indulge some classic 80s nostalgia Read more »| 01 Jul 2013 -
ArtDavid Batchelor: Flatlands @ Fruitmarket
Conventionally marginalised or removed from fine art, colour is tacky, tasteless; a distraction from the purity of intellect of serious artistic endeavour ev... Read more »| 28 Jun 2013 -
Music
Hope For Men Below: Adam Stafford in interview
No stranger to these pages, Adam Stafford is a multi-talented filmmaker who has won numerous awards for his pictures of industrial life in Scotland's central belt. Now he's ready for his equally dynamic music to enter the cultural fast lane Read more »| 28 Jun 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 28 June
In our weekly news roundup, we take a look at Jim Carrey's about-face over Kick-Ass 2; marvel at new music by the Pixies, Franz Ferdinand and David Lynch; cop El-P and Killer Mike's Run The Jewels; and preview Glasgow's Music Language Festival Read more »| 28 Jun 2013 -
Music
Jagwar Ma @ The Deaf Institute, Manchester, 20 Jun
Promoting their debut album Howlin, Jagwar Ma – Gabriel Winterfield, Jack Freeman and Jono Ma – assume their appropriate positions in f... Read more »| 28 Jun 2013
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Clubs
Church of Noise – July 2013
From blissed-out electro to Swiss death metal, we take a whirlwind tour of the more esoteric sounds to be found on the circuit this July Read more »| 28 Jun 2013 -
Film
Stories We Tell
Canadian actor and filmmaker Sarah Polley’s new feature, The Stories We Tell, is as slippery as an eel. It claims to be a documentary, but then so did ... Read more »| 28 Jun 2013 -
Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – July 2013
It's festival season, but there are plenty of bands still plugging away in the Northwest, including garage rockers Sic Alps, New York duo MS MR and the not to be missed dream-pop of Youth Lagoon Read more »| 28 Jun 2013 -
ArtIn Pictures: Leith Late 2013
In Pictures: Leith Late 2013 Some images from Leith Late 2013: Photography by David P Scott Read more »| 27 Jun 2013 -
Music
Kanye West – Yeezus
Already this year's most talked-about album, Kanye West's Yeezus came with a rash of promises and boasts from the rapper – as usual, he was going ... Read more »| 27 Jun 2013 -
MusicFists – Phantasm
Phantasm won’t be lauded for its originality, channelling as it does a scrappy fuzz-pop sound that’s grown endlessly familiar: a garage-rock... Read more »| 27 Jun 2013 -
MusicGig Highlights – July 2013
As festival madness descends, we present some picks from T in the Park, Wickerman and Kelburn Garden Party, plus very special gigs from Mogwai, Adam Stafford, Ghostpoet, My Jerusalem, Stefan Blomeier and many more Read more »| 27 Jun 2013 -
Music
Thundercat – Apocalypse
A funky lovechild of Prince, Frank Zappa, Herbie Hancock and Flying Lotus (the latter incidentally co-produces this album), Thundercat, aka multi-instrumenta... Read more »| 27 Jun 2013 -
Music
O2 Love Music Column – July 2013
Aside from enigmatic front-man Billy Corgan, The Smashing Pumpkins are near unrecognisable as a line-up for those who first came to the band via th... Read more »| 27 Jun 2013