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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MusicThe Go! Team – The Scene Between
Ian Parton began The Go! Team as a home studio project – he recorded 2004 debut Thunder, Lightning, Strike in his parent's kitchen – an... Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
MusicErrors – Lease of Life
It can be all too easy to let an album’s artwork inform your appreciation of the music in imaginary ways, like some kind of reverse Rorschach inkb... Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
Music
The Monochrome Set – Spaces Everywhere
The injustices wrought by the fallout of the UK's post-punk explosion are infamous and many. While mavericks such as Wire and The Fall secured a loyal audien... Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
Books
The Well by Catherine Chanter
The Well opens with a woman under house arrest. Ruth, our protagonist and narrator, is restricted to her farm in Wales. Named The Well, it is beautiful, lone... Read more »| 03 Mar 2015 -
Music
Ibibio Sound Machine confirmed for Africa Oyé 2015
London-based Ibibio Sound Machine have been confirmed for the 23rd edition of Liverpool's Africa Oyé festival, taking place this June in the city's Se... Read more »| 03 Mar 2015 -
Art
Polymaths, A Home Show, and Bacon Scissors: This Week in Scottish Art
There's plenty of diverse art events this week, including curator-slash-band duo WE's concert and breakfast talk, Project Ability's international showcase and a couple of Slade graduates' open house exhibition among others. Read more »| 03 Mar 2015
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MusicDeerhoof @ Stereo, Glasgow, 24 February
It’s an odd choice for an opener. Mirror Monster, the phantasmic second track from Deerhoof’s most recent album La Isla Bonita, begins with an et... Read more »| 03 Mar 2015 -
MusicBill Wells & Aidan Moffat – The Most Important Place In The World
It’s twenty years since Arab Strap first enabled Aidan Moffat to demonstrate his talent for extracting sage poetry from the seediest of situations, pro... Read more »| 03 Mar 2015 -
Music
Matthew E. White – Fresh Blood
With 50 Shades still filling cinemas, “let me sleep in your tent tonight” is far from the most salacious request you might hear this month, but p... Read more »| 03 Mar 2015 -
Books
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
This is a gorgeous, crisp little thing. And although Signs... is no epic – accounting for chapter breaks it clocks in at under 100 short pages&nbs... Read more »| 02 Mar 2015 -
Music
Last Man Standing: Andy Gill on continuing Gang of Four
Through his work with Gang of Four, Andy Gill is a guitar hero who has inspired everyone from St. Vincent to Franz Ferdinand. When vocalist Jon King quit in 2012, most presumed the group was over. Gill explains What Happens Next Read more »| 02 Mar 2015 -
Clubs
Carrying the Torch: Channel One Sound System
Ahead of his visit to Edinburgh's Wee Dub Festival, we speak to Channel One Sound System's Mikey Dread. He shares his thoughts on the resilience of roots reggae, the sound system scene and fighting for his corner at last year's Notting Hill Carnival Read more »| 02 Mar 2015 -
Film
Pride
Doing for the LGBT community what The Help did for African Americans, Pride conspires toward a feel-good conclusion by affirming the human spirit's tenacity ... Read more »| 02 Mar 2015 -
Books
The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Perón by Carlos Gamerro
Ernesto Marroné is a corporate warrior, a sales samurai who takes How to Win Friends and Influence People as his Bushido code. Even as his countrymen ... Read more »| 02 Mar 2015 -
Art
Ballet of the Palette @ GoMA
Artists from last year’s Picture Show have put together an exhibition of paintings selected from the Glasgow collections. It’s a clever crossing ... Read more »| 01 Mar 2015