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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ArtAction Man: Battlefield Casualties short film released
A new short film based on artist Darren Cullen's Action Man: Battlefield Casualties artwork has been released online. The film, which features a voice... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
MusicMutoid Man – Bleeder
There’s a real dizzying effect when Bleeder first roars out of your speakers; a cyclone of gargantuan riffs and wailing solos that threaten to submerge... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
Music
Mogwai announce ‘Central Belters’ boxset
Mogwai have revealed plans for a career-spanning box set of rarities and classic tracks, entitled Central Belters. The thirty-five track collection comes as... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
MusicFrom The Kites of San Quentin @ Eagle Inn, Salford, 19 June
Since emerging within Manchester well over half decade ago, From The Kites of San Quentin have consistently pulled apart the seams of electronica and filled ... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
Film
Difret
Zeresenay Berhane Mehari’s film is unusual for a work of Ethiopian cinema. Shot in 35mm, it eschews the more export-friendly English language for Amhar... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
MusicJohn Grant announces new album ‘Grey Tickles, Black Pressure’
US singer-songwriter John Grant has announced details of his third solo album Grey Tickles, Black Pressure, the follow-up to 2013’s Pale Green Ghosts. ... Read more »| 23 Jun 2015
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Art
Rugs, Birds and Yes Men: This Week in Scottish Art
Hospitalfield opens its doors and takes a good look at its gilded interiors, while Dundee goes print-mad and Edinburgh exhibits Gary Fabian Miller, who finds himself without the medium he's spent three decades exploring Read more »| 23 Jun 2015 -
Music
New Order announce new album ‘Music Complete’
New Order will release their first studio album in a decade this autumn, with Music Complete due for release this September. The new album will be the ... Read more »| 22 Jun 2015 -
Film
Forty Guns
In one of Forty Guns’ standout scenes, gunslinger-turned-lawman Griff Bonnell (Barry Sullivan) and cattle baroness Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck) ... Read more »| 22 Jun 2015 -
Film
Slow West
There’s a steely confidence to John Maclean’s debut feature, a lyrical fairytale in which a doe-eyed Scottish teen (Smit-McPhee) treks west in se... Read more »| 22 Jun 2015 -
Music
Faith No More @ O2 Academy, 14 June
It’s a strange billing on paper: Bristolian post-punk progenitors support San Franciscan metal mavericks – two bands that didn’t simultaneo... Read more »| 20 Jun 2015 -
Music
FFS @ The Glasgow School of Art, 16 June
Unmistakably Maelian lyrics, Sparksian hooks and the simple keyboard melodies that inspired some of Franz Ferdinand’s hits drive FFS, the supergroup&rs... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015 -
Music
Waxahatchee @ Stereo, Glasgow, 15 June
Something’s changed. When Katie Crutchfield first brought Waxahatchee to the UK in 2013, there was a tangible nervousness surrounding her confessional ... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015 -
Music
UntitledLive: Neu! Reekie! @ Central Hall, 9 June
Neu! Reekie!’s really outdone itself. Other than highlighting the Central Hall in Tollcross as one of the city's most unsung venues (stained glass, a g... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015 -
Music
Mogwai announce food bank drive for 20th anniversary gigs
Glasgow post-rockers Mogwai have announced plans for a charity donation drive at their 20th anniversary shows at the Glasgow Barrowlands this weekend. Ahead... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015