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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FilmPet Sights and Sounds: Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy
Love & Mercy tells the story of Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson without falling back on the many cliches of the music biopic. Director Bill Pohlad reveals how he brought the life of this troubled genius to the screen Read more »| 02 Jul 2015 -
Books101 Detectives by Ivan Vladislavic
'How toxic are you?' is the formidable question raised by South African author Ivan Vladislavic in his latest short story collection. Vladislavic commentates... Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
Books
S.N.U.F.F. by Victor Pelevin
In this farcical utopia, esoteric Russian writer Victor Pelevin fast-forwards our current culture – where the lines between fact and fiction are i... Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
Comedy
Fringe previews in Liverpool and Manchester: our picks
Preview season heats up in July – a cheap opportunity to take in the best of the Fringe before it's even begun. Here are our picks Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
Music
Viet Cong, Josh T. Pearson and Mikal Cronin with Strings & Horns join Utrecht's Le Guess Who? 2015
Sets by Deerhunter, Faust, Destroyer and a strand curated by drone godfathers SunnO))) head up the brilliantly eclectic line-up for the four-day Le Guess Who... Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
Music
AC/DC @ Hampden Park, Glasgow, 28 June
When you’re a band that’s been around as long as AC/DC, you’re no stranger to your own strengths and weaknesses. “I hope you came for... Read more »| 01 Jul 2015
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ComedyCrystal Baws: July 2015
ARIESThe US announces plans to fit the moon with a giant googly eye to prove that God exists. It is hoped that centrifugal force will allow the googly eye to... Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
Art
Birthdays, Catapults and Juvenile Delinquency: Scottish art news for July 2015
Throughout July, there are celebrations, openings, discussion events and a kayak filled with 200 litres of whisky Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
MusicTeen Men – Teen Men
Teen Men should be easy to write off as mere zeitgeist imitators: spikey muted guitar, afropop percussion, a lush production complete with what sounds like h... Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
Music
Ratatat – Magnifique
Magnifique, the fifth album from Brooklyn-based duo Ratatat, discontinues the naming convention set up with LP3 and LP4. But it could comfortably be called L... Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
Art
Liverpool John Moores Fine Art Degree Shows: Doll Glaze Gossip
Sandwiches, disembodied heads and a miniature coliseum: it’s Liverpool School of Art & Design Degree Show 2015 Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
Music
Natalie Prass @ The Deaf Institute, 25 June
The L.A. singer-songwriter brings a half-baked version of her excellent debut to Manchester Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
Music
Tame Impala – Currents
For the past few years Tame Impala, aka the one-man studio machine Keven Parker, have been steadily redefining psychedelic rock for a millennial audience. Th... Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
FilmScotland Film Event Highlights – July 2015
This month's highlights include a celebration of Orson Welles at Filmhouse, a weekend of films featuring The Who at DCA, and a geek's paradise at Comic Con at Glasgow's CCA Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
Books
Comma Press launch new literary platform MacGuffin
Comma Press has launched MacGuffin, a new self-publishing platform for fiction, essays and poetry. The Manchester-based imprint – who specialise in sho... Read more »| 30 Jun 2015