Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
-
MusicLA Songwriter Julia Holter on Gigi, Lynch and Loud City Song
Julia Holter's previous albums have explored poetry and Greek tragedy. The LA songwriter and composer talks to us about how, with its themes of celebrity and the loss of love, a 1950s musical has influenced her new LP, Loud City Song Read more »| 04 Nov 2013 -
Music
M.I.A. – Matangi
M.I.A. returns with a new album, this time with production masterminded in the main by longtime collaborator, Switch. It's as alternately as dark, steamy and... Read more »| 04 Nov 2013 -
TheatreSummerhall: Winter Season
In the last year, Edinburgh's Summerhall has come into its own, creating a hub where the worlds of art, theatre, tech and eh brewing can collide. Its winter programme offers an array of theatrical darkness, a refreshing alternative to the impending panto Read more »| 04 Nov 2013 -
Art
Starter for 6: PeterWardDesign
Based in Glasgow, PeterWardDesign specialises in sustainable furniture and products which are all locally designed and manufactured in the city. "I've... Read more »| 04 Nov 2013 -
MusicThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 1 November
In today's Bulletin: The music world pays tribute to Lou Reed; Scottish film studio plans complicated by US TV show Outlander; The Scotsman picks the 50 best novels of the last 50 years, and Foals' Yannis Philippakis hits out at Spotify Read more »| 01 Nov 2013 -
TheatreThe Jazz Club Murder @ Oran Mor
The sweet sound of the trumpet fills the air as a good old fashioned 'whodunnit' takes to the Òran Mór stage in James Runcie’s The J... Read more »| 01 Nov 2013
-
TheatreForced Entertainment @ Tramway
Forced Entertainment's two performances in Glasgow probe into completely different themes and remarkably contrasting styles of performance. The Coming... Read more »| 01 Nov 2013 -
Clubs
Pressure Turns 15
We chat to frequent guest Ben Sims, newcomer Hans Bouffmyhre and residents Slam, ahead of the legendary club night’s birthday celebrations… Read more »| 01 Nov 2013 -
Comedy
Testing: Claudia O'Doherty
The wide-eyed comedian comes to Manchester to spread her knowledge of this fair isle with the cream of the crop of young stand-ups Read more »| 01 Nov 2013 -
Music
OvO – Abisso
Halloween may be done with for another year, but there are plenty of long nights ahead; plenty of inky witching hours crying out for a suitably unsettling so... Read more »| 01 Nov 2013 -
Music
Synthetic Pleasures: Ubre Blanca in conversation
Formed from the ashes of Shitdisco and Divorce, synth enthusiasts Ubre Blanca discuss their debut EP, retro-futurism, and Glasgow's alternative music scene Read more »| 31 Oct 2013 -
Music
Suede / Teleman @ Barrowlands, 27 October
Between the present tour slot and the Bernard Butler-produced debut album due next year, Teleman have been enjoying Suede-related patronage for a while now. ... Read more »| 31 Oct 2013 -
Music
Chantal Acda – Let Your Hands Be My Guide
Though billed as her first ‘real solo record’ (following a trio of softly sumptuous slowcore releases under the Sleepingdog moniker), Chantal Acd... Read more »| 31 Oct 2013 -
Music
Home Comforts: Wooden Shjips' Ripley Johnson on Back to Land
If previous album West was a story of outward-looking horizons, then Wooden Shjips’ follow-up Back to Land retreats to the familiar – and there’s nothing wrong with that, argues Ripley Johnson Read more »| 31 Oct 2013 -
Art
With: @ Rogue Studios, Manchester
From artists Nicola Dale, Julie Del’Hopital, Annie Harrison, Sarah Sanders, Jenny Steele and Jacqueline Wylie, With: is the result of a series of discu... Read more »| 31 Oct 2013