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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MusicIbeyi @ King Tut's, Glasgow, 10 November
There’s a strange, special warmth to the Ibeyi twins. It's in their spine-shivering harmonies, and in their sparse, precise percussion. More than anyth... Read more »| 17 Nov 2015 -
ArtThis Week in Scottish Art: Gold Panning & more
In this week's Scottish art round-up, catch new exhibitions a-plenty in Glasgow, a talk on the art of collage in Dundee, and work centred on "vulgar adoptions of foreign words" in Edinburgh. Read more »| 17 Nov 2015 -
MusicJohn Cummings leaves Mogwai
Guitarist John Cummings has left Mogwai after nearly 20 years with the band. Read more »| 17 Nov 2015 -
Music
Zyna Hel interview: Constellation Woman
Zyna Hel – aka visual artist Elisabeth Oswell – is intent on creating a world of her own with her dark electro pop. Taking inspiration from the likes of Britney, Kate Bush and Goldfrapp, she explains how a French childhood first lit her creative flames. Read more »| 17 Nov 2015 -
Clubs
Steffi on playing live & Klakson records' relaunch
Ahead of a UK tour this month, the Ostgut Ton favourite talks sequencers, label duties and racking up bills in Hard Wax Read more »| 16 Nov 2015 -
Art
Liverpool Biennial 2016: Artists announced
Liverpool Biennial have announced details of 37 artists from around the globe who will take part in next year's festival. Read more »| 16 Nov 2015
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Film
BAFTA Scotland 2015 winners announced
The winners of this year's BAFTA Scotland awards have been announced, with The Legend of Barney Thomson and '71 among the films picking up awards. The Legen... Read more »| 16 Nov 2015 -
Art
Tania Kovats: Evaporation @ MOSI, Manchester
“My job is to complicate things, to make things beautiful. The facts only mean things if they're also given imaginative space.” At a panel event... Read more »| 16 Nov 2015 -
MusicBest Coast @ The Kazimier, Liverpool, 30 Oct
Coming of age can be a difficult task when you’ve created the perfect teenage soundtrack but that’s the tricky conundrum facing LA fuzz rockers B... Read more »| 16 Nov 2015 -
Music
New Albums This Week (13 Nov) - Oneohtrix Point Never & more
Our weekly round-up of the best new albums released this week, including the new records from Warp's Oneohtrix Point Never, Lanterns on the Lake, Holy Sons, and The Drink. Read more »| 13 Nov 2015 -
Film
Magic Mike XXL
Magic Mike XXL, which swaps the original film's 'stripper Boogie Nights'' beats for a looser road movie set-up, may initially seem like a typical cash-i... Read more »| 13 Nov 2015 -
Music
Ex Hex @ Stereo, Glasgow, 6 Nov
On first listen, Ex Hex seem perfectly straightforward – a dash of Cheap Trick, a smidgen of The Nerves, a whole lotta Joan Jett. So winsome,... Read more »| 13 Nov 2015 -
Art
Creative Edinburgh award winners named
The winners of the 2015 Creative Edinburgh Awards have been announced at an awards ceremony this evening, with spoken word, film and music curators Neu! Reekie! and fashion designer Judy R Clark among the winners. Read more »| 12 Nov 2015 -
Art
2015 John Byrne Award winner announced
The 2015 winner of the John Byrne Award, which aims to encourage artistic expression among teenagers in Edinburgh, has been announced at a ceremony this evening. Read more »| 12 Nov 2015 -
Art
Niamh O'Malley at the Bluecoat, Liverpool
A new exhibition at the Bluecoat presents recent work by multidisciplinary artist Niamh O'Malley. We pay a visit and consider the concepts at the heart of her practice Read more »| 12 Nov 2015