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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FilmThe Lobster
The cinematic worlds that Yorgos Lanthimos creates are defined by their rules and codes of behaviour, and the drama in them comes from the consequences faced... Read more »| 07 Oct 2015 -
MusicEL VY – Return to the Moon
Members of the National and Menomena combine on a record that strikes a happy medium between the two Read more »| 07 Oct 2015 -
Film
Taxi Tehran
Ingeniously circumventing the Iranian state’s ban on his filmmaking, Jafar Panahi’s Golden Bear winner Taxi Tehran is filmed almost entirely with... Read more »| 07 Oct 2015 -
BooksNorthwest Book Highlights – October 2015
Paul Mason, Iain Pears and Kathryn Williams feature in our round-up of literary events for October. Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
Theatre
What Goes Around @ The Tron, Edinburgh, 19 Sep
Liz Lochhead plays tribute to Arthur Schnitzler with the more contemporary style of What Goes Around. Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
Clubs
Northwest Clubbing Highlights – October 2015
We preview the best club nights in the Northwest, including visits from Quantic and Red Eye Hi Fi. Read more »| 06 Oct 2015
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ClubsScottish Clubbing Highlights – October 2015
Willie Burns comes to Glasgow and Serge visits Edinburgh as we preview the month's best clubs in Scotland. Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
Music
VASA – Colours
Post-rock, apparently, although we can probably lose the ‘post’ part – Colours rawks wholeheartedly, if not life-changingly, construct... Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
Music
Low's Alan Sparhawk on Ones and Sixes
It's been a mere two years since we last heard from Low, but their swift return presents a more intense sound and a cerebral, mysterious theme. Alan Sparhawk examines the figures that make up Ones and Sixes Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
Music
John Carpenter – Lost Themes Remixed
A glorious paean to the science fiction soundtracks of our youth, legendary sci-fi and horror director John Carpenter’s Lost Themes, released earlier t... Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
Music
Rival Consoles – Howl
Titles can be deceptive; there’s little to imply angst or anguish in Ryan Lee West’s cerebral, ambidextrous electronica. Instead, the third full-... Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
Music
Here We Go Magic – Be Small
Here We Go Magic’s line-up may have undergone a significant reshuffle since the release of 2012’s acclaimed A Different Ship, but despite this tr... Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
Music
Dinosaur Pile-Up – Eleven Eleven
You needn’t be a paleontologist to suss Dinosaur Pile-Up’s sonic ancestry. Their third outing – another solid offering of crisp power-... Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
Art
This Week in Scottish Art: Good Press, Jarman Award
Good Press mark their fourth birthday, the Jarman and BP Portrait Awards head to Glasgow and Edinburgh, plus details of a host of new shows and events at galleries across Scotland in our weekly art guide. Read more »| 06 Oct 2015 -
FilmScotland Film Event Highlights – October 2015
Light and shade this month, with Halloween screenings and a celebration of love at Paisley Abbey Read more »| 06 Oct 2015