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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ClubsPositive Infusions: Enzo Siragusa
Ahead of his set at Nightvision's launch in Edinburgh this month, we catch up with Fuse head honcho, Enzo Siragusa Read more »| 03 Sep 2014 -
Music"No one’s come along to do what we do" – Death From Above 1979 strike again with The Physical World
Once described as ‘Marilyn Manson with melody’ and ‘Slayer down the disco with Michael Jackson,’ Death From Above 1979’s Sebastien Grainger stops this nonsense with cold hard facts and a kick-ass new album Read more »| 03 Sep 2014 -
ClubsSands of Time: Simian Mobile Disco on recording Whorl
With Whorl, Simian Mobile Disco feel they've recorded their most honest album yet – the result of restricting themselves, getting older, and, y'know, going out to Joshua Tree to record it. Honest, then, and a touch psychedelic... Read more »| 03 Sep 2014 -
Comedy
Spotlight: Adam Rowe
This plucky young Liverpool comedian (of the year! In 2011) is happiest when playing to a crowd of baying hyenas and friendly ghosts Read more »| 03 Sep 2014 -
Theatre
Smack! Bang! Cabaret! @ Henry's Cellar Bar, Edinburgh, from 10 Sep
Starting on 10 September, Smack! Bang! Cabaret! plans to become a weekly fixture in every cabaret-lover's calendar. Dive – Edinburgh's premier LGBT que... Read more »| 03 Sep 2014 -
Theatre
Arika 14: Make a Way Out of No Way
Experimental cross platform programmers Arika return to the Tramway with part 6 of their episodic series of multi-arts festivals, drilling down into questions of identity, gender and culture Read more »| 03 Sep 2014
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Music
Eureka California – Crunch
Jake Ward is a clever so-and-so. Over-educated, over-stimulated and over it all – the classic American slacker tale, and one that can feel overdone whe... Read more »| 03 Sep 2014 -
MusicThe Vaselines – V Is For Vaselines
With their second album in five years, Kurt Cobain’s one-time “favourite songwriters in the whole world” can now claim to actually be more ... Read more »| 03 Sep 2014 -
Music
Bronto Skylift – Date with a Ghoul
From the opening bars of Bird Catcher, Bronto Skylift grab you by the scruff of the neck and pin you against the wall. Ordinarily, when confronted with this ... Read more »| 03 Sep 2014 -
Music
David Thomas Broughton & Juice Voice Ensemble – Sliding the Same Way
It’s hard to feel totally at ease during Sliding the Same Way. Maybe it’s due to lyrics like “I killed a man with a broken glass” in ... Read more »| 03 Sep 2014 -
Art
You Would Cry Too If It Happened to You: Bob and Roberta Smith's Art Party
Artist Bob and Roberta Smith discusses his newly released film Art Party and the impact of changes to arts education – and we invite 12 artists, writers and critics from across the UK to respond to the film, the art and the afterparties they inspired Read more »| 03 Sep 2014 -
Film
Trump in the Rough: Anthony Baxter on A Dangerous Game
Anthony Baxter's A Dangerous Game revisits the Menie estate and the residents whose David v Goliath battle with property tycoon Donald Trump he documented in You've been Trumped. He explains how he found similar battles happening around the world Read more »| 03 Sep 2014 -
Theatre
Beckett Trilogy: Not I, Footfalls and Rockaby @ The Lowry, Salford, 23-27 Sep
There are few who dare to approach a Samuel Beckett play and even fewer who do his work justice, yet Lisa Dwan has attracted critical acclaim for her perform... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
Books
Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara
Hard to believe half a century’s passed since the publication of Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems – so named because most of the book was w... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
Theatre
Venue of the Month: The Lucy Davis Vaults
Down the dark, dark stairs there was a dark, dark cellar... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014