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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MusicScottish Gig Highlights – April 2014
This month, we take an advance look at Glasgow in-the-city festival Stag & Dagger, featuring Forest Swords, The Hold Steady and East India Youth, plus gigs from The Cosmic Dead, Randolph's Leap, Manic Street Preachers and Ghana's King Ayisoba Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
MusicNorthwest Gig Highlights – April 2014
While Christians are celebrating the resurrection of their messiah this month, we’re looking forward to the arrival of some peeps who can walk on water in our eyes, including Kiran Leonard, Timber Timbre and George Clinton Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
MusicSOHN – Tremors
Having nabbed a 4AD signing off the back of his first EP The Wheel, the now-Vienna-based British (and former Trouble Over Tokyo) producer Toph Taylor –... Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
FilmDark Side of the Sun: Biyi Bandele on his Struggle to Adapt a Modern Classic
Nigerian novelist and playwright (and now filmmaker) Biyi Bandele on his hard-fought adaptation of Orange Prize-winning novel Half of a Yellow Sun Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
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Randolph's Leap – Clumsy Knot
For those not already familiar with Randolph’s Leap, the lyric “living like a hermit / hermit the frog” could serve as a kind of acid test.... Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
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Evian Christ / Koreless / Lorenzo Senni / Visionist / TCF @ RNCM, Manchester, 29 March
Despite little being known about upcoming producer TCF, his lush acousmatic composition juxtaposed by gravelly digital decay has stunned audiences and got cr... Read more »| 31 Mar 2014
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O2 Love Music Column – April 2014
Aussie indie-dance remix aficionados Cut Copy have been touring since December 2013 off the back of fourth LP Free Your Mind, and the final European leg pull... Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
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EMA – The Future's Void
Erika M Anderson’s Past Life Martyred Saints was an explosive, unsettling debut, a day-glo riot of sputtering confessional and expression... Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
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Stumbleine ft. Violet Skies – Dissolver
Stumbleine's production is undeniably more deep and beautiful than ever on this full-length collaboration with Violet Skies, not least in the way he treats t... Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
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Download Smell the Da.I.S.Y., a new J-Dilla produced mixtape from De La Soul
De La Soul have released their new Dilla-produced mixtape, Smell the Da.I.S.Y., for free online Read more »| 28 Mar 2014 -
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Film News: Avengers: Age of Ultron cast on working with Joss Whedon; Christopher Nolan talks Interstellar
A round-up of this week's film news, with comments from the cast of Avengers: Age of Ultron, Christopher Nolan talks Matthew McConaughey and Interstellar, plus the latest casting rumours and trailers Read more »| 28 Mar 2014 -
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Transport from Paradise
Transport from Paradise is set in the Theresienstadt ghetto – a Nazi holding camp for tens of thousands of European Jews, from which the only transport... Read more »| 28 Mar 2014 -
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Brolin – FLAGS Mixtape
Producer and vocalist Brolin warms up for his dsbut album, expected later this year, with a mixtape that sees him collaborating with, remixing, bring remixed by and re-purposing tracks by Dam Mantle, Raffertie, Sinkane and others. Read more »| 28 Mar 2014 -
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The Past
After experiencing the near-perfect construction of Asghar Farhadi's Oscar-winning A Separation and his belatedly released About Elly, one might be inclined ... Read more »| 28 Mar 2014 -
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Wild Beasts @ Albert Hall, Manchester, 26 March
Anyone would think it were a homecoming, as almost 2000 people join the swell of Lion’s Share: “Boy, what you running from?”, they implore,... Read more »| 28 Mar 2014