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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BooksThe Four Marys: A Quartet of Contemporary Folk Tales by Jean Rafferty
Mary Magdalene and her namesake, the Mother of God - whores and virgins, those cruel binary stereotypes. Jean Rafferty shows all those vivid hues in between in this quartet of contemporary Scottish folk tales Read more »| 05 Jun 2014 -
BooksFor Faughie's Sake by Laura Marney
Glaswegian Trixie returns in this brilliant sequel to No Wonder I Take A Drink, sick of the mud, midges and cliques of Highland village Inverfaughie. In... Read more »| 05 Jun 2014 -
Film
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Lindsay Anderson’s if... centres on an elite boarding school populated by subservient pupils and fascistic ‘whips’ – head boys w... Read more »| 05 Jun 2014 -
MusicAscending The Animal Kingdom: Parquet Courts' Austin Brown Interviewed
Simultaneously everyone’s favourite band and completely misunderstood in 2013, Parquet Courts are back to clarify their position with Sunbathing Animal Read more »| 04 Jun 2014 -
Music
Mastodon – Once More ‘Round the Sun
“All my heroes, they’re all dead,” Troy Sanders bellows on Chimes At Midnight’s apocalyptic bridge. It’s another plunge into th... Read more »| 04 Jun 2014 -
Film
Blood on the Road: Tom Berninger on Mistaken for Strangers
You know Matt Berninger, frontman for The National. Now meet his brother Tom, the family misfit who followed his big bro on the road with a camera and a thirst for rock'n'roll excess. The result is the hilarious and touching doc Mistaken for Strangers Read more »| 04 Jun 2014
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ComedySpotlight: Adam Staunton
The Liverpool comic and Maverick Renegade on naff last suppers and fighting small dogs Read more »| 04 Jun 2014 -
Film
Hard Cel: An interview with Disney Animator Floyd Norman
With the Blu-Ray release of Sleeping Beauty coinciding with the release of the live action reboot Maleficent, The Skinny caught up with veteran animator Floyd Norman to discuss his memories of making the film as a young artist Read more »| 03 Jun 2014 -
Music
Embrace the Strange: The Phantom Band return
Three years in the making, Rick Redbeard and Duncan Marquiss talk up the compelling new Phantom Band record, and take the opportunity to renounce sorcery Read more »| 03 Jun 2014 -
Art
Opinion: Celebrating the Mac
Former Art editor and Glasgow School of Art graduate Andrew Cattanach talks to staff and students about the impact of last month's devastating fire Read more »| 03 Jun 2014 -
Clubs
Saine Music Playlist: Under the Influence
Contributing to the first release on Andy Hart's new label Voyage, out at the end of this month, Finnish producer Saine reckons with ten rekkids that have filtered in to his sound Read more »| 03 Jun 2014 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: June 2014 Horoscopes
ARIESLike some sort of Hannibal Blumenthal you open the UK’s first human bell-end restaurant, blowing diners away with your exotic award-winning cuisin... Read more »| 03 Jun 2014 -
Clubs
Beneath the Label: Head Front Panel
This month we talk to Tabernacle co-founder, Andrew Ingram, about the label's mysterious new techno venture Read more »| 03 Jun 2014 -
ClubsLiving the Nightmare: Nightmares on Wax Turns 25
Before the release of a career-spanning best of album, Nightmares on Wax reflects on his Silver Jubilee Read more »| 03 Jun 2014 -
Theatre
In Good Company: Quarantine
In the first of a new series circling in on theatre’s most exciting troupes and groups, we decide it’s time that daring company Quarantine, with a seasonal quartet of works commencing this month, were on your radar Read more »| 03 Jun 2014