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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MusicDestroyer – Five Spanish Songs
With Dan Bejar’s piquant way with words a substantial part of Destroyer’s appeal, Five Spanish Songs may herald disappointment for those who don&... Read more »| 25 Nov 2013 -
FilmBetty Blue
Béatrice Dalle’s pouty visage became one of the 80s’ most recognisable images after sizzling and shrieking her way through Jean-Jacques Be... Read more »| 25 Nov 2013 -
Film
Heaven's Gate
Its notoriously troubled production may have passed into legend, but Heaven’s Gate has finally emerged from its own tangled history to be regarded as a... Read more »| 25 Nov 2013 -
MusicQueens of the Stone Age @ The SSE Hydro, 16 November
Since making their modest Scottish debut at The Cathouse in 2000, through several memorable nights at the Barras and an enduring habit of returning to T in t... Read more »| 24 Nov 2013 -
ComedyThe New Wave @ The Dancehouse, 22 Nov
A night promising to showcase the ‘new wave of comedy’ is a lofty claim, but one that is met with a diverse cast, that lamentably only has four o... Read more »| 24 Nov 2013 -
Art
Witches and Wicked Bodies @ Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Witches and Wicked Bodies is an incredible exhibition that showcases the evolution of the witch, through five hundred years of artistic expression. Drawings,... Read more »| 22 Nov 2013
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Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 22 November
In your weekly pop cultural roundup: Beck lashes out at Spotify; former groupies expose EDM's badboys on Reddit; Edinburgh's Usher Hall turns 100, plus the latest festival and tour news! Read more »| 22 Nov 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: New Music & Videos | 22 November
A round-up of new music videos, tracks and trailers, featuring music from Pixies, Arcade Fire, Oneohtrix Point Never, Pharrell Williams, Evian Christ, Withered Hand and Tame Impala, plus a Numbers 10th Anniversary Mix from Jackmaster Read more »| 22 Nov 2013 -
Comedy
Opinion: Vince Hase is funny. Somewhere.
When Vince Hase's comedy album His First Attempt arrived for review, there was only one man for the job: Fred Fletch... Read more »| 21 Nov 2013 -
Comedy
Steve Hughes: While it's Still Legal
While it's difficult not to draw parallels and wonder whether this has all been done before, Steve Hughes does manage to pull it off. He tells us ... Read more »| 21 Nov 2013 -
Music
Casual Sex – The Bastard Beat EP
Casual Sex have perhaps the most problematic name to search for since The Music; but thankfully, that's where the similarities end. There's no doubting the G... Read more »| 21 Nov 2013 -
MusicJulia Holter @ The Deaf Institute, Manchester, 13 November
In her recent interview with The Skinny, Julia Holter was disarmingly honest about her expressionist, observational narratives. Laudably self-deprecating, sh... Read more »| 21 Nov 2013 -
Film
Parkland
Released on the 50th year since JFK’s assassination, this ensemble drama takes place over the days surrounding the murder, concerning itself with the e... Read more »| 21 Nov 2013 -
Film
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The second part of Suzanne Collins’ satire of our celebrity-obsessed, consumerist times hellbent on taking money from celebrity-obsessed, consumerist t... Read more »| 21 Nov 2013 -
Music
Beastmilk – Climax
Although primarily a goth/post-punk outfit, Finland’s Beastmilk draw heavily upon the tropes of extreme metal; indeed, the initial buzz around the band... Read more »| 21 Nov 2013