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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ComedyDane Baptiste on Unreasonable Doubts and Sunny D
A nationwide tour and a self-penned sitcom would go right to some comedians' heads. Not so for Dane Baptiste, who tells us that success is a mix of roots, determination and a lucky vagina. Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
MusicMogwai – Atomic
Upon motive alone, this is a poignant release – a reworked version of the original soundtrack created for Belfast-born director Mark Cousins’ doc... Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
MusicAlun Woodward – Music From Battle Mountain
It's been seven years since Alun Woodward's last album (2009's eponymous Lord Cut-Glass LP), so the very emergence of Battle Mountain feels like a triumph. W... Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
Music
Future of the Left – The Peace and Truce of...
“The proper music abounds,” sneer Future of the Left on their fifth album, taking potshots at the tedium of 'authenticity' while barrel-roll... Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
Comedy
Will Naameh wins Edinburgh Revue championship
The 2016 Edinburgh Revue stand-up championship took place in front of a packed Cabaret Bar at the Pleasance. Read more »| 24 Mar 2016 -
ComedyGreg Proops @ Citizens Theatre, 19 Mar
Best known for his appearances on Whose Line is it Anyway?, stand-up Greg Proops brings his observations to the Glasgow International Comedy Festival. ... Read more »| 24 Mar 2016
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Clubs
Solid Blake DJ Mix – Skinned #12
Apeiron Crew's Emma 'Solid' Blake delivers our latest mix, a pulverising half-hour assault from Copenhagen, by way of Glasgow Read more »| 24 Mar 2016 -
Music
Black Mountain – IV
Those searching for echoes of Black Mountain's thunderous 2008 release In The Future won't find it in latest record IV. This is certainly not to say that the... Read more »| 24 Mar 2016 -
Music
Yeasayer – Amen and Goodbye
If there’s a suspicion that Brooklyn’s Yeasayer try just a little too hard, it’s not a feeling that their fourth LP is going to disprove; A... Read more »| 24 Mar 2016 -
Books
Jenni Fagan on The Sunlight Pilgrims
The Sunlight Pilgrims deals with those living on "the fringes of the fringes" – of geography, gender and society. Jenni Fagan, among Scotland's mo... Read more »| 24 Mar 2016 -
Music
Moderat – III
'Why must I hide / In the forests of my mind?' asks Sascha Ring – aka Apparat – in the opening lines of Eating Hooks. It’s as cle... Read more »| 24 Mar 2016 -
Music
Frankie Cosmos – Next Thing
'I’m 20, washed up already,' sings Frankie Cosmos on the appositely-titled I’m 20, in what may just be the most misleading lyric of the year.&nbs... Read more »| 24 Mar 2016 -
Film
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Zack Snyder's Batman v Superman, starring Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill, has some interesting ideas and compositions, but it ends up a byzantine mess. Read more »| 24 Mar 2016 -
ArtThreshold Festival 2016 & the Baltic Triangle
Ahead of the sixth Threshold Festival in Liverpool's Baltic Triangle, we talk to Baltic Creative’s Mark Lawler and former CUC director Ingi Thor Jonsson about changes in area's cultural ecology and what happens next Read more »| 24 Mar 2016 -
Music
Gnod – Mirror
Nothing if not prolific, Salford’s favourite Krautrock connoisseurs (let’s ignore The Fall’s I Am Damo Suzuki for the moment) follow-up las... Read more »| 23 Mar 2016