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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MusicTanya Tagaq – Animism
It wrong-foots from the off and then, once you're fully disoriented, abandons you to your own devices. Tanya Tagaq's third album hits UK shelves fresh from e... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015 -
MusicDan Mangan + Blacksmith – Club Meds
For someone whose award-winning solo efforts were already full of charming heft, Dan Mangan’s first ostensible outing with the full band Blacksmith (th... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015 -
Music
Sleater-Kinney – No Cities to Love
Recorded in secret in early 2014, seven years after they began their 'extended hiatus,' No Cities to Love is as daring and playful as its head-spinning prove... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015 -
FilmFoxcatcher
With Foxcatcher, director Bennett Miller (Capote, Moneyball) explores the odd, tense relationship between brothers and Olympic champion wrestlers Mark and Da... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015 -
Books
Behind God's Back by Harri Nykänen
A businessman gets shot on his doorstep in Helsinki one morning, and this apparently simple homicide lights up a web of connections and corruption that leads... Read more »| 02 Jan 2015 -
ClubsClubbing Highlights Scotland – January 2015
We kick off the new year with a look forward to Jasper James, Mr Mitch and Neville Watson Read more »| 02 Jan 2015
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Art
Art from Elsewhere @ GoMA, Glasgow
Hayward Touring have two major exhibitions currently making the rounds in the UK. The first, Listening, explores the act of listening through 17 contemporary... Read more »| 01 Jan 2015 -
Art
Transmitting Andy Warhol @ Tate Liverpool
Rather than focusing on a particular genre of Warhol’s immense output, the packed Transmitting Andy Warhol exhibition includes more than 100 works and ... Read more »| 01 Jan 2015 -
Clubs
Northwest Clubbing Highlights – January 2015
A fairly sparse month in clubbingdom as people across the land try to keep their resolution not to get completely arseholed Read more »| 01 Jan 2015 -
Film
Scotland Film Event Highlights – January 2015
A new year of cinema kicks off with a series of adventure docs and a celebration of teen movies Read more »| 01 Jan 2015 -
Film
Northwest Film Event Highlights – January 2015
This month's best movie happenings include hippos dancing to Ponchielli, a celebration of teen movies, and superhero puppets Read more »| 01 Jan 2015 -
Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – January 2015
Justin Townes Earle and BC Camplight warm the frosty cockles; Independent Venue Week atones for the rampant capitalism of Christmas, and Canada invades Read more »| 01 Jan 2015 -
Clubs
Jon Hopkins @ The Warehouse Project, 12 December
The fervour with which Immunity, Jon Hopkins' album of summer 2013, is still met is quite something: eyes roll back to the fissuring whip and crackle of We D... Read more »| 01 Jan 2015 -
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Francis Lung @ Sacred Trinity, 18 December
In its own low-key way, Tom McClung’s progression from ash-choked backing vocalist and bassist in WU LYF has been as fascinating as that group’s ... Read more »| 01 Jan 2015 -
Books
Northwest Book Highlights – January 2015
The local book club is on the ascent – we pick a few of the best, while events include Knausgaard and Renberg in an evening celebrating Scandinavian writing Read more »| 01 Jan 2015