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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MusicBronto Skylift – Date with a Ghoul
From the opening bars of Bird Catcher, Bronto Skylift grab you by the scruff of the neck and pin you against the wall. Ordinarily, when confronted with this ... Read more »| 03 Sep 2014 -
Music
David Thomas Broughton & Juice Voice Ensemble – Sliding the Same Way
It’s hard to feel totally at ease during Sliding the Same Way. Maybe it’s due to lyrics like “I killed a man with a broken glass” in ... Read more »| 03 Sep 2014 -
Art
You Would Cry Too If It Happened to You: Bob and Roberta Smith's Art Party
Artist Bob and Roberta Smith discusses his newly released film Art Party and the impact of changes to arts education – and we invite 12 artists, writers and critics from across the UK to respond to the film, the art and the afterparties they inspired Read more »| 03 Sep 2014 -
FilmTrump in the Rough: Anthony Baxter on A Dangerous Game
Anthony Baxter's A Dangerous Game revisits the Menie estate and the residents whose David v Goliath battle with property tycoon Donald Trump he documented in You've been Trumped. He explains how he found similar battles happening around the world Read more »| 03 Sep 2014 -
Theatre
Beckett Trilogy: Not I, Footfalls and Rockaby @ The Lowry, Salford, 23-27 Sep
There are few who dare to approach a Samuel Beckett play and even fewer who do his work justice, yet Lisa Dwan has attracted critical acclaim for her perform... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
BooksLunch Poems by Frank O'Hara
Hard to believe half a century’s passed since the publication of Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems – so named because most of the book was w... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014
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Theatre
Venue of the Month: The Lucy Davis Vaults
Down the dark, dark stairs there was a dark, dark cellar... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
Film
Art Party
As a piece of filmmaking, the strengths and flaws of Art Party are very much intertwined. In depicting Smith and cohorts on their real-life trip to 2013... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
Music
Nehruviandoom – Nehruviandoom (Sound of the Son)
The pairing of up-and-coming rap sensation Bishop Nehru and metal-faced veteran MF Doom might seem a strange one – Nehru's been championed by big ... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
FilmFinding Fela!
The documentaries that roll off the Alex Gibney production line tend to be at their best when the filmmaker is investigating a big story. Films like Mea Maxi... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
Music
Catfish And The Bottlemen – The Balcony
Alright, who forgot to fill in the landfill? Evidently news of indie’s death has yet to reach Llandudno’s shores, where woefully-named quartet Ca... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
Film
Third Time's the Charm: Anton Corbijn on A Most Wanted Man
Anton Corbijn is one of the world's finest rock photographers. He's pretty handy with the moving image too. Here he discusses his latest film, spy thriller A Most Wanted Man, and working with the late Philip Seymour Hoffman Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
Books
Alan Warner: Imagining Scotland
As he publishes his new novel Their Lips Talk of Mischief, Alan Warner – one of Scotland's greatest living authors – talks candidly of referendum, ageing and critics. And as is only relevant, books, of course Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
Film
Attila Marcel
The last few years have seen some of modern animation’s most acclaimed directors make forays into live action. Notably Brad Bird and Andrew Stanto... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: September 2014 Horoscopes
ARIESAfter tasting your sperm the witch doctor concedes that you probably have a low sperm count. His prescription is to sleep with a decorative pejazzle of ... Read more »| 01 Sep 2014