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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MusicWild Beasts @ Brudenell Social Club, 26 July
The days of Wild Beasts taking a kind of 'Martin Amis novel', public-schoolboys-up-to-no-good approach to being sexy are long gone. Tonight’s home... Read more »| 03 Aug 2016 -
Music
Live music in Liverpool this week: 3 - 9 Aug
Slowcore legends, local heroes, something rather fabulously called 'deathgrind'... it's another packed week for Liverpool's live scene Read more »| 03 Aug 2016 -
BooksBeast by Paul Kingsnorth
A man alone in a barn on a moor. Outside is whiteness and emptiness and heat then rain. The man isn’t sleeping much. He’s come out here to escape... Read more »| 03 Aug 2016 -
MusicMarielle V Jakobsons – Star Core
Less an album, more a masterclass in sonic sculpture, Star Core is a beautifully sparse affair. Evocative, meditative and fluid, its exploitation of drone tr... Read more »| 03 Aug 2016 -
Clubs
Edinburgh Clubbing Highlights: 3 - 9 August
Festival fever kicks off in the capital this weekend, meaning plenty of parties on offer and 5am licensing, too... Read more »| 03 Aug 2016 -
Clubs
Glasgow Clubbing Highlights: 3 - 9 August
Clubbing for a good cause features in our Glasgow highlights this week, along with a disco boat party and an appearance by an Argentinian turntable wunderkid Read more »| 03 Aug 2016
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Music
Junun revealed as finale for Le Guess Who? 2016
This year's edition of the Utrecht festival will be brought to a close by Junun, featuring Jonny Greenwood, The Rajasthan Express and Shye Ben Tzur Read more »| 03 Aug 2016 -
Music
The Veils – Total Depravity
'How could you love me, babe, just to strip it all away?' laments Finn Andrews on In the Blood, a highlight of The Veils' excellent fifth album. As with much... Read more »| 03 Aug 2016 -
Film
A Poem is a Naked Person
Les Blank's long-lost Leon Russell documentary comes to cinemas Read more »| 03 Aug 2016 -
Music
Track premiere: Law Holt – Love Drive Through
Listen to the track from Law Holt's debut LP Read more »| 03 Aug 2016 -
Film
Messi
Álex de la Iglesia delivers an atypical sports doc celebrating the life and achievements of the world’s best footballer Read more »| 03 Aug 2016 -
Film
The Mermaid
A delightfully silly fantasy adventure from Kung Fu Hustle director Stephen Chow In The Mermaid, Stephen Chow doesn’t so much take the fish out of wat... Read more »| 03 Aug 2016 -
Music
Charlotte Church to headline Neu! Reekie!
Charlotte Church, Liz Lochhead and Ette announced by Neu! Reekie! for their late night party at the National Museum of Scotland Read more »| 03 Aug 2016 -
Film
Psycho Live comes to Manchester's Albert Hall
Alfred Hitchcock's classic horror Psycho is back on the big screen this Halloween, with Manchester Camerata providing a live score at the Albert Hall We can... Read more »| 03 Aug 2016 -
Music
Best of Both Worlds: Anna Meredith Interviewed
What happens when a classical composer tries her hand at a pop record? Scottish Album of the Year, that’s what – we meet Anna Meredith Read more »| 02 Aug 2016