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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MusicGhostpoet – Shedding Skin
Having grown out of Some Say I So I Say Light’s late night lounging with dim sum and dial tones, Ghostpoet is stepping outside. London-based rapper Oba... Read more »| 25 Feb 2015 -
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Vessels – Dilate
Vessels take a turn for the colossal with third album Dilate. The Leeds five-piece swap their post-rock trappings for a taste of techno, crafting an immacula... Read more »| 25 Feb 2015 -
MusicGodspeed You! Black Emperor confirm new album ‘Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress’
Canadian post-rockers Godspeed You! Black Emperor have announced their new album Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress, due for release on 31 March. The new alb... Read more »| 24 Feb 2015 -
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Andy Warhol, Sound-Reactive Visuals and Show and Tell: This Week in Scottish Art
From legendary photographer Robert Mapplethorpe to the just-graduated Sonia Gavrilovic Hufton, there's a variety of art to see and things to do in Scottish art this week. Read more »| 24 Feb 2015 -
MusicSpiritualized to headline Liverpool Psych Fest
The Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia has announced its first wave of acts for 2015, with Spiritualized set to headline one day of the event. ... Read more »| 24 Feb 2015 -
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Black Yaya – Black Yaya
Black Yaya is the third incarnation of musician David Ivar. You might remember him as half of eccentric duo Herman Dune, but Ivar’s taken some time out... Read more »| 24 Feb 2015
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Evans the Death – Expect Delays
The classic indie pop juggernaut gathers pace. Evans the Death share lineage with a host of C86-influenced acts, most of whom give the lie to the notion that... Read more »| 24 Feb 2015 -
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Karin Park – Apocalypse Pop
Karin Park, Norwegian queen of goth-pop, returns darker than ever – as the menacing title of new album Apocalypse Pop attests. But although Park p... Read more »| 24 Feb 2015 -
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Purity Ring – Another Eternity
Album artwork can speak a thousand words. Take the sleeve to debut Shrines, an eerie, dark cartoon: girl embraces sheep, ghostly hands paw at floating lungs.... Read more »| 24 Feb 2015 -
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Pictures of the Old World
Dušan Hanák’s award-winning documentary, available with English subtitles for the first time, examines the lives of elderly villagers in ... Read more »| 23 Feb 2015 -
FilmGlasgow Film Festival 2015: Wake in Fright
Ted Kotcheff would go on to chalk up major hits with the likes of First Blood and Weekend at Bernie's, but it's this rarely seen gem from 1971 that stands as... Read more »| 23 Feb 2015 -
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Wild River
Elia Kazan didn’t want Montgomery Clift for Wild River – even delaying in the hope of luring Brando – but the troubled star gives a mo... Read more »| 23 Feb 2015 -
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Dreaming Bigger, Screaming Louder: Xavier Dolan on Mommy
Québécois firecracker Xavier Dolan says he sees cinema as revenge against the mundanities of everyday life. With his brilliant new melodrama Mommy, that revenge is served piping hot Read more »| 22 Feb 2015 -
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Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Stray Dog
Ronnie 'Stray Dog' Hall caught director Debra Granik's eye while playing a minor role in her acclaimed Winter's Bone, and it's easy to see why she kept watch... Read more »| 22 Feb 2015 -
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Group of the Altos – R U Person or Not
"Let our hearts break and scream (when we are all courage.)" Sometimes, an act inserts into their self-penned bio a sliver of manifesto that signals their in... Read more »| 21 Feb 2015