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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MusicSonic Hearts Foundation – Into Forever
Glasgow's Sonic Hearts Foundation claim to have three album's worth of material under their collective belt, and it shows – from the opening elect... Read more »| 14 Jun 2013 -
MusicJon Hopkins – Immunity
"King Creosote and who??" was the cry from many a Scot when Anstruther's finest unveiled 2011's seminal collaborative work Diamond Mine. Largely unknown... Read more »| 14 Jun 2013 -
MusicThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 14 June
In today's Bulletin: Stuart Braithwaite on the benefit concert to save the Sighthill Stone Circle; new music from Beth Gibbons, Liars, Nigel Godrich and more; an interview with TNGHT's Lunice; the history of the Black Flag logo, plus the latest trailers Read more »| 14 Jun 2013 -
Film
Man of Steel
Following Bryan Singer’s dreary Superman Returns in 2006, and new helmer Zack Snyder’s previous picture, the diabolical Sucker Punch, b... Read more »| 13 Jun 2013 -
Books
All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
It feels as though Evie Wyld may be writing the kind of novel series that is tied together not by recurring characters or plots, but by landscapes, themes an... Read more »| 13 Jun 2013 -
Theatre
The Man Who Woke Up Dead @ Waterside Arts Centre, Manchester, 27-29 Jun
Inspired by film noir, Hitchcock, and Orwell’s classic 1984, The Man Who Woke Up Dead is a dark and richly compelling thriller that sets out to challen... Read more »| 13 Jun 2013
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Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 12 June
Crowd-fund a Mo' Wax retrospective; Kraftwerk recording next LP; listen to Kveikur by Sigur Rós; goNORTH stage lineup announced for Wickerman Festival; plus music from James Holden, Black Sabbath, Poliça, David Lynch, Com Truise and more Read more »| 12 Jun 2013 -
MusicFucked Up / Titus Andronicus / METZ, SWG3, 28 May
“Can we kill these lights, please?” METZ guitarist / vocalist Alex Edkins asks bluntly, rejecting unnecessary theatrics as the Canadian... Read more »| 12 Jun 2013 -
Clubs
Matias Aguayo returns with The Visitor
After five years of travelling and collaborating, Matias Aguayo is finally ready to let us meet his hosts – with crisp, propulsive new LP The Visitor Read more »| 12 Jun 2013 -
Music
μ-Ziq – Chewed Corners
Planet Mu founder and UK electronic music veteran Mike Paradinas returns with a new album under his revered μ-Ziq guise, his first under that moniker sinc... Read more »| 12 Jun 2013 -
Music
Kamikaze Shoegaze: Sonic Hearts Foundation in interview
Rising stars of the Glasgow live scene, indie shoegazers Sonic Hearts Foundation tell us about their guerilla gigs, insane pedal arrays, and their new EP, Into Forever Read more »| 11 Jun 2013 -
Music
Matthew Herbert – The End of Silence
Utilising a single ten-second audio recording as the sole sound source for an entire LP, Matthew Herbert has created one of his boldest and most thought-prov... Read more »| 11 Jun 2013 -
Music
Anna Von Hausswolff – Ceremony
If you think the title of Ceremony’s opening instrumental Epitaph of Theodor sounds grandiose, wait till you hear its brooding church organ melody... Read more »| 11 Jun 2013 -
Art
The Skinny Showcase: Flo Gordon
Showcase: Flo Gordon All my work is a stew. Here are the ingredients: * 200g Humour/Subconscious Humour A lot of my work has sprouted from an aversion to t... Read more »| 11 Jun 2013 -
Books
All The Little Guns Went Bang, Bang, Bang by Neil Mackay
“Blood’s everywhere,” says Pearce Furlong, one of the two 11 year old protagonists in Neil Mackay’s splendid debut. “Most peopl... Read more »| 10 Jun 2013