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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BooksA cultural call to arms: Rebel Inc. 25 years on
Author Jenni Fagan recalls revolutionary 90s publisher Rebel Inc. exactly 25 years on, speaking with the key architects & authors it bore – Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, Laura Hird. This is also a cultural call to arms. What better use to make of the past? Read more »| 31 May 2017 -
ArtRachel Maclean introduces Spite Your Face
No stranger to these pages, video artist Rachel Maclean offers an insight into her dark Venetian fairytale, Spite Your Face Read more »| 31 May 2017 -
MusicJeff Rosenstock @ Stereo, Glasgow, 21 May
The thrill of following most bands is in watching them grow with the years. Evolution is key to keeping fans interested, as well as to just being a sane huma... Read more »| 30 May 2017 -
MusicAriana Grande confirms Manchester benefit concert
Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry and Pharrell are among the other artists confirmed to play the One Love Manchester concert Read more »| 30 May 2017 -
Music
FLY Open Air festival @ Hopetoun House, 20 May
FLY Club Open Air Festival returns for the second installation in the new luxury surroundings of Hopetoun House Read more »| 30 May 2017 -
Music
Thea Gilmore – Counterweight
Since her first few feral records, Thea Gilmore has settled into a pattern of releasing new music, covers albums and compilations. You can't blame her, if an... Read more »| 30 May 2017
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Art
Ambit @ Street Level, Glasgow
Street Level presents a part of the Ambit project on Scottish Photography, and features five artists whose markedly different practices nevertheless contain moments of subtle rapport and overlap Read more »| 30 May 2017 -
Art
After Hours @ 16 Nicholson Street, Glasgow
Through a combination of spatial intervention, sculpture, publication and video work, Higgins complicates ideas of formal presentation, as well as leisure, professionalism and labour Read more »| 30 May 2017 -
MusicSaint Etienne – Home Counties
Even when they were a part of the 'alternative dance' scene of the early nineties, Saint Etienne never fully bought into the bombastic, hedonistic style that... Read more »| 30 May 2017 -
Music
Check out the debut track from new Manchester band Koalas
New Manchester synth-pop band Koalas have unveiled their debut track, Home Heart, co-produced by avant-pop producer Brendan Williams (Dutch Uncles, GoGo Penguin). Read more »| 30 May 2017 -
Music
Natalie Imbruglia @ Gorilla, Manchester, 14 May
We're hamstrung from the off by dint of presentation: Natalie Imbruglia's European tour arrives with good intentions but who doesn't inwardly groan at the wo... Read more »| 30 May 2017 -
Film
John Wick: Chapter Two
While the imaginative action can't quite keep pace with the rising body count, John Wick: Chapter Two offers up plenty of the neo-noir style and balletic action that made the first film such a joy Read more »| 30 May 2017 -
Film
Woody Harrelson: “It’s easy to laugh at myself”
In 2002, Woody Harrelson spent a wild night in London that ended with him in police custody. He tells us why he wanted to turn this dark night of the soul into Lost in London, a single-take movie that was broadcast live to cinemas Read more »| 30 May 2017 -
Music
Scottish Gigs of the Week: 30 May-5 Jun
From Hidden Door in Edinburgh to Ladytron singer Helen Marnie in Glasgow, we've got you covered Read more »| 30 May 2017 -
Music
Noga Erez – Off the Radar
There is a distinct air of chaos on Noga Erez’s debut album Off the Radar, stemming mainly from the experimental, industrial electronic beats. It&rsquo... Read more »| 30 May 2017