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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FilmMan vs Machine: Andrew Bujalski on Computer Chess
Andrew Bujalski talks to us about resurrecting video technology from the 60s to create Computer Chess, the year's most joyously idiosyncratic movie Read more »| 08 Nov 2013 -
Art
Creative Edinburgh: Capital Awards
On Tuesday 12 November Creative Edinburgh host their second awards ceremony and celebrate turning two. Director Lynsey Smith tells us a bit more about the organisation itself Read more »| 07 Nov 2013 -
MusicPublic Spaces – KP-LP
Generated in Glasgow from the collective efforts of Lewis Macdonald, double bassist Alastair Quietsch and a host of collaborators, this album takes the templ... Read more »| 07 Nov 2013 -
ClubsFight for Your Own: Evian Christ's Unlikely Influence on Pop
With one of his two self-curated 'Trance Parties' coming to Manchester this month, Ellesmere Port's Evian Christ talks dealing with the limelight and buddying up with Kanye Read more »| 07 Nov 2013 -
MusicThom Yorke, Four Tet + Daphni @ The Warehouse Project, Manchester, 2 November
A combination of Victoria Warehouse's 5000 capacity, the necessary stepping up of security with the venue move from beneath Piccadilly railway station i... Read more »| 07 Nov 2013 -
MusicFuture Of The Left @ Broadcast, 2 November
Visibly startled by the sweltering, heaving, meat-patty of bodies, unceremoniously crammed into tonight's capacity show at Broadcast, Future Of The Left join... Read more »| 06 Nov 2013
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Music
Bill Orcutt / With Lumps @ The Glad Cafe, 1 November
Bill Orcutt’s following may not be large, but it makes up for that in sheer reverence and awe. The former guitarist in Miami noise legends Harry Pussy ... Read more »| 06 Nov 2013 -
Film
Hero Worship: Jacque Fresco
Filmmaker Maja Borg chooses 98-year-old futurist Jacque Fresco as her hero. She admires him so much, in fact, that she's made two films about him Read more »| 06 Nov 2013 -
Film
8½
Eight and a half films into his career, Fellini decided it was time to turn the camera inward. 8½ is a portrait of a creatively blocked filmmaker... Read more »| 06 Nov 2013 -
Music
Shearwater – Fellow Travelers
Like live albums and B-side compilations, cover version LPs usually occupy a fringe position in an artist’s discography, and Fellow Travelers is no dif... Read more »| 06 Nov 2013 -
Music
Dead Flowers – Midnight At The Wheel Club
Ian Williams' vocal influences are easy enough to spot – Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave have all clearly been imbibed, imitated and revere... Read more »| 06 Nov 2013 -
Music
Parquet Courts / Eagulls @ Mono, 31 October
Despite heavy reverb obscuring much of George Mitchell’s between-song speech, body language and delivery indicate the vocalist is not in the best of mo... Read more »| 05 Nov 2013 -
Music
Honeyblood / Laura St Jude / Bite @ Broadcast, 29 October
Broadcast tonight hosts three bands who differ in sound though are united in their potential to make a noise in places much further afield than the rough end... Read more »| 05 Nov 2013 -
Theatre
Burlesque: Subversive or not?
Is Burlesque still subversive? Or is it just porn for middle class people? Our Theatre Editor gets his dictionary out for the crowd Read more »| 05 Nov 2013 -
Art
CultureLabel: A Very Scottish Collection
A look at online art retailer CultureLabel's new Scottish collection, featuring such luminaries as Jeremy Deller, Martin Boyce and Rachel Whitehead Read more »| 05 Nov 2013