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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ClubsThe Warehouse Project, Trafford Park Road, Manchester, 28 Sep-1 Jan
At this time of year thoughts of winter once more begin to cloud our otherwise carefree minds but, as the sun makes its annual latitudinal shift southward, a... Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
ClubsQabalala! with Dave Maclean (Django Django) @ The Third Door, 16 September
With live sets from Rudi Zygadlo and Auntie Flo getting things off to a smashing start back in April, Qabalala! returns this month for a much anticipated sec... Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
Art
Holography Unit @ Glue Factory, 14 Sep-6 Oct
Do you remember the future? It took place some time between the late Victorian period and the invention of the internet and was a kind of cult led by prophet... Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
ArtJames McLardy @ The Duchy
James McLardy’s sculptures at The Duchy Gallery in Glasgow are familiar in shape, if not in scale. They resemble pieces of architecture or monuments. O... Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
Film
Return to Goth: Simon Oakes explains Hammer Studio's revival
Hammer Studio chief Simon Oakes talks to The Skinny about the British institution's resurrection Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
Film
Keyhole
Guy Maddin’s latest is, loosely, a haunted Odyssey set in a decrepit, (meta)physically imposing mansion and populated by ghosts and gangsters. Its... Read more »| 10 Sep 2012
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FilmThe Sweeney
It’s The Sweeney, son… and it’s nowhere near as bad as you fink it is. Ray Winstone is Regan, snarling and punching his way through a miss... Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
Books
All The Little Animals by Walker Hamilton
All The Little Animals was first published in 1968, and is something of a forgotten classic. Alan Warner’s introduction to this reissue gives a summary... Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
Books
The Dark Knight Rises by Greg Cox
Novelisations of blockbuster movies are always going to suffer in comparison to the finished product. The Dark Knight Rises suffers especially, because it ca... Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
Books
Kick Ass 2 by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.
It’s highly anticipated, but Kick-Ass 2 is something of a downer. After the events of the first volume, Kick-Ass, now basically just Dave Lizewski, is ... Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
BooksThe Fall of the Stone City by Ismail Kadare
There’s an old Albanian folk tale at the heart of The Fall of The Stone City where a dead man responds to a dinner invitation. The book’s plot re... Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
Clubs
The Psychedelic Forest Carnival @ Kelburn Castle and Country Park, 15 September
Wrapping up a trio of events being held over the summer at Kelburn Castle is The Psychedelic Forest Carnival, a party inspired by the sounds of Africa, Latin... Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
Film
The Victim
When you've fought killer robots from the future, aliens with acid for blood and flesh-eating zombies, what do you do next? Veteran genre actor Michael Biehn... Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
Film
Breathing
Roman Kugler (Schubert) is a 19-year old orphan locked up in a juvenile detention facility. As part of the requirements for his parole he is offered a job at... Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
Clubs
CODE presents Juan Pablo Pfirter @ La Cheetah, 15 Sep
On the back of his Sessions EP release earlier this year, Juan Pablo Pfirter re-visits the La Cheetah basement to combine forces with CODE in a repeat of las... Read more »| 10 Sep 2012