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James Acaster: Acaster Spell on You
I should start by letting you know that this article is being written at 12pm on Saturday 23 August 2014. Half an hour before the announcement of the ne... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
Music
Interview: 65daysofstatic return with Wild Light
Why are 65daysofstatic called 65daysofstatic? It’s a curious name: all lowercase, no spaces, at face value a nonsense assemblage of letters and numbers... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
Festivals
Tough at the Top
With the unemployment rate soaring and graduates being urged to consider a spell working abroad to ride out the worst of the recession, 24-year-old playwrigh... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
Music
Grizzly Bear's Daniel Rossen talks Shields' tricky genesis
If there was one Brooklyn-based band from the class of ’09 that looked poised to maintain a winning streak, I sincerely hope you put a fiver on Grizzly... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
Festivals
Boy Done Good
For the punter, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe should be about taking a punt – meeting the people who are truly on the fringe, the unknowns who have fol... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
Music
Elbow: Rocket Men
Elbow's new album consists of haunting songs that swirl gently around Guy Garvey's soulful lyrics, subtly evocative and marking an equally delicate change of... Read more »| Updated about 13 years ago -
Music
In June: Ryan Kennedy introduces Horsebeach
Away from the constant chatter and search for Manchester’s most exciting new band, Ryan Kennedy has been slowly but surely crafting the sound of Horseb... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
Books
A Walk on the Wild Side: We meet the Wild Writers
In a climate of persistent arts cuts with intense competition for the little funding available, the arts sector is an uncomfortable collective to belong to, ... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
Music
An Anxious Energy: Sweaty Palms interviewed
It was the week before last Christmas when Sweaty Palms announced themselves to the Glasgow music scene in shambolic style while playing the Green Door studi... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Books
Scottish Poetry News: October 2017
Caroline Bird arrives to talk about her latest book, In These Days Of Prohibition, on a rather grey Friday. She is open-faced and utterly edgeless &ndas... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Things To Do
Top Ten Events Northwest 23-30 Jan: East India Youth, 10 Bands 10 Minutes + Mogwai
Top Ten Events Northwest 23-30 Jan: East India Youth, 10 Bands 10 Minutes + Mogwai . &nbs... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
Music
First Impressions: Daft Punk's Random Access Memories
The way to listen to one of the year's – maybe decade's – most frothed-over albums is definitely in a soundproof cube of frosted glass containing... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
Clubs
Intelligent Design: Jimmy Edgar in interview
In the endless cycle of hyperbole and placemaking that constitutes dance music press, readers and writers alike regularly come across ‘one of the bigge... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
Music
C Duncan Interviewed: Bedroom to Box Office
You wouldn’t have thought 150 people – seated, balancing drinks, applauders seemingly of the staid fingers-to-palm variety – could make thi... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Music
Scottish Gig Highlights – October 2015
While October may be the month for kissing any few remnant sunny days goodbye, burying heads in textbooks, and carving pumpkins in preparation for Halloween,... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Food And Drink
Seizing the Day: The Skinny’s Alternative Food & Drink Holidays
If there’s one thing we can’t handle, it’s forced jollity. Yes, we are great fun at parties, thanks very much. This St Patrick's Day, ... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
Festivals
John Waters on bad taste & Multiple Maniacs
John Waters has been transgressing ever since he was in short trousers. His original sin, appropriately enough, happened in a house of God. “My mother ... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Things To Do
Top Ten Events Scotland 13-20 Feb: Kid Canaveral, Niteflights + RSA NEW Contemporaries
The Skinny | CyberZAP Top Ten Events Scotland 13-20 Feb: Kid Canaveral, Niteflights + RSA NEW Contemporaries  ... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
Things To Do
Inprint, The Warlocks + Evie Wyld | Top Events Northwest 13-20 Mar
Inprint, The Warlocks + Evie Wyld | Top Events Northwest 13-20 Mar The Skinny | CyberZAP THE W... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
Clubs
DJ Dave Haslam on his new book Life After Dark
Dave Haslam DJed over 450 times at Manchester’s Haçienda throughout the 80s and 90s. It’s telling that he can recall that number so a... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
Music
"No one’s come along to do what we do" – Death From Above 1979 strike again with The Physical World
“It’s the same world as ten years ago, we haven’t added any planets to the universe,” Sebastien Granger analogises of the protracted ... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
Festivals
Broken Social Scene: Forgiveness Rock Revolution
"First thing I want to talk about," insists Broken Social Scene's Andrew Whiteman, diving straight in to lead the conversation, "is the hilarious idea of cal... Read more »| Updated almost 14 years ago -
Film
Meet Scotland's stars of short film
Three years ago, The Skinny ran a cover story celebrating “a new dawn” of Scottish cinema. Looking back with 20-20 hindsight, perhaps that was to... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
Music
The Democratic Circus: Art pop dreamteam David Byrne and St Vincent discuss their ongoing collaboration
By the time Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, was born in September 1982, David Byrne’s Talking Heads were at work on their fifth album Speaking In Tongues... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
Film
The Up-and-Comer: Andrew Haigh interview
“No one’s going to come and see it because it’s about gay sex. The gays will only come because they want a glimpse of cock, and they’... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
Music
Young Fathers Get Back to Business
They do funerals differently in New Orleans. Rather than mourn the death, they celebrate the life of the deceased. A brass band leads a procession to and f... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 5 July
EDINBURGH CITY OF LITERATURE REMEMBERS IAIN BANKSThe sudden passing of much-loved Scottish author Iain Banks was a devastating blow to the world of Scottish ... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
Music
SxSW Music Diary: WOMPS, Hinds & Iggy Pop
"This is the hottest I've ever played," says Ewan Grant of Glasgow's WOMPS. It's actually quite cool inside The Side Bar on 7th St., but ... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
Music
Siobhan Wilson on new album There Are No Saints
At first glance, Siobhan Wilson is just one of many Scottish singer-songwriters to make good use of minimalist production. Kathryn Joseph, Rachel Sermanni an... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Books
"Women rulers always have a bad press" – Jung Chang on China's notorious Express Cixi
Jung Chang is a glamorous 62 years of age, easily surpassing stars of the silver screen on the style front – unusual for a writer, living in the world ... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago