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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MusicUnder the Influence: Failure on The Cure, Big Star, Blonde Redhead and more
Returning from a 17-year break with a cosmic odyssey titled The Heart Is a Monster this month, the reactivated LA space rock trio reveal the albums that make up their DNA. Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
FilmChasing Amy: Asif Kapadia on his Amy Winehouse documentary
Asif Kapadia's latest documentary charts the rise and premature demise of controversial soul singer Amy Winehouse. We talk to the sharp-eyed director about the film’s genesis and challenges ahead of its UK premier Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
FilmA Letter to Three Wives
Like the following year's All About Eve, this 1949 mega-hit was adapted from fiction published in the pages of Cosmopolitan. It too is a whip-smart melodrama... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Film
Story of My Death
Albert Serra’s mischievous allegory for the death knell of the Enlightenment and the dawning of Romanticism is a truly singular work. Serra expresses t... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Film
The Man with the Golden Arm
The Nelson Algren novel on which this is based asks readers to relate to a philandering junkie card dealer whose ultimate ambition is to be a jazz drummer. T... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
MusicNorthwest Music News: 20 Tracks of the Year So Far
With half the year already gone, it's time to recap on the best of what music we've covered in the Northwest as well as a few tracks that slipped through the cracks. Read more »| 29 Jun 2015
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Comedy
Norris & Parker: Comedy Spotlight
Jack Bauer, deceased porn stars and goose-strangling failed actors – welcome to the weird world of Katie Norris and Sinead Parker Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Art
GSA Product Design Degree Show: Designs For Life
The Product Design Degree Show at the Glasgow School of Art presents a diverse selection of work from graduating Bachelors and Masters students, that casts thought on to the role of design within society Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Music
Qluster – Tasten
Labels such as 'neo-classical' don’t always assist. It doesn’t do justice to the stark, abstract, and at times ambient beauty a work such as Tast... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
MusicFailure – The Heart Is a Monster
The fourth Failure album that seemed a pipe dream for so long calls in at the same spaceport the LA trio left us marooned on when they split with 1996’... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Books
Northwest Book Highlights – July 2015
Forget Independence Day, it’s all about American literature this July: Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman is released to suitable fanfare, while The Last Poets, Walter Mosley and Judy Blume also visit the Northwest as part of this year's literary festivals Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Film
Chimes at Midnight
A widespread and misguided perception of Orson Welles’ career – that it was all downhill from Citizen Kane – is turned on its head by Chime... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Music
Mogwai @ Barrowland, Glasgow, 21 June
Mogwai have always been reticent, both in the vocal-to-instrumental ratio of their output, and also in their propensity towards onstage chit-chat. Yet tonigh... Read more »| 26 Jun 2015 -
Music
Hanni El Khatib @ Broadcast, Glasgow, 22 June
Mondays may not be synonymous with drunken debauchery, but Broadcast is alive and kicking tonight as LA-based Hanni El Khatib takes the stage for an evening ... Read more »| 26 Jun 2015 -
Music
Prefuse 73 – Every Colour Of Darkness
Prefuse 73’s music is like an unscratched itch. Guillermo S. Herren belongs to that small band of producers, including Flying Lotus, who take a hip-hop... Read more »| 26 Jun 2015