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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MusicMaserati – Rehumanizer
If there’s one thing Maserati’s latest record can do it’s guarantee you a speeding fine. The six tracks that make up Rehumanizer are the ki... Read more »| 04 Nov 2015 -
FilmJohn Niven on music industry satire Kill Your Friends
Ayrshire-born writer John Niven on penning music industry satire Kill Your Friends, getting the film version made, his years working as an A&R man during the rise and fall of Britpop and binning Coldplay's demo tape Read more »| 04 Nov 2015 -
ArtScottish Art News: November 2015
This month sees Luc Tuyman's first Scottish exhibition and a foregrounding of important Scottish women artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as open call shows from Embassy and the RSA. Read more »| 04 Nov 2015 -
Art
This Week in Scottish Art: Sonica, Generator & more
The inaugural Edinburgh Artists’ Moving Image Festival has its first event in Embassy with members’ show of moving image works Move Me – plus other exhibitions and events this week… Read more »| 03 Nov 2015 -
Clubs
Northwest Clubbing Highlights – November 2015
Despite the November chills creeping in, it’s still best to dress to sweat. Read more »| 03 Nov 2015 -
MusicA Tribe Called Quest revisit People's Instinctive Travels
Ahead of the re-release of People's Instinctive Travels, A Tribe Called Quest's founding quarter discuss resolving beats, rhymes and strife Read more »| 03 Nov 2015
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Music
!!! (Chk Chk Chk) interview: Trust your Gut
!!! (Chk Chk Chk) frontman Nic Offer details the self-scrutiny, silliness and tally charts which went into making rambunctious sixth album As If Read more »| 03 Nov 2015 -
Film
Saoirse Ronan on Brooklyn, family & musicals
Saoirse Ronan, Ireland's best young acting export of the last decade, heads into adult leading roles with Brooklyn, an adaptation of Colm Tóibín's beloved novel. The Skinny talks to the star about immigrant stories, career goals and doing a musical Read more »| 03 Nov 2015 -
Comedy
Nish Kumar interview: Leftwing Comedy and the BBC
Ahead of his gig at the Lowry, Newsjack host Nish Kumar talks political correctness, leftwing comedy and the many benefits of giving your shows incomprehensible names Read more »| 03 Nov 2015 -
Music
Oneohtrix Point Never on Garden of Delete
Daniel Lopatin reminisces over alt metal, and conjures up a parallel universe known as Garden of Delete. Read more »| 03 Nov 2015 -
Books
Helle Helle: Beautiful Tales of Forgotten People
The unknown 'debut' novelist Helle Helle is a multi-award-winner and apparently Denmark's most popular author, writing since the early 90s. It's just taken the English-speaking world time to catch up. Here she explains the banal beauty of her work. Read more »| 03 Nov 2015 -
Books
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wins Baileys 'Best of the Best'
Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel Half of a Yellow Sun has won the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction's ‘Best of the Best’ award, deemed to be the finest winner from the award’s second decade. Read more »| 03 Nov 2015 -
MusicNorthwest Gig Highlights – November 2015
Remember remember, er, all of November, because it's full of musical dynamite, from Jenny Hval to Ex Hex and the return of MONEY Read more »| 03 Nov 2015 -
Books
Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
A nameless woman is lost in her solitude, her thoughts and wishes. Nature and the mundane objects around her come to life and find their voice in Pond, a col... Read more »| 03 Nov 2015 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: November 2015
Mystic Mark peers once more into your certain fate, bringing news of flatulence chambers and unfortunate genital occurences Read more »| 03 Nov 2015