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Theatre
Touching the Void @ Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
There’s something about Touching the Void. Maybe it’s the impossible story. Maybe it’s the setting. Maybe it’s the screaming. Whateve... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Film
Film writers' individual top tens of the year 2018
You've probably read The Skinny's Top 25 Films of 2018 list, but our Film team is a broad church. Phantom Thread, The Skinny's Film of 2018, was ubiquitous o... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Music
Tyondai Braxton – HIVE1
It’s no secret that former Battles member Tyondai Braxton is one of the most talented musicians around today, but as displayed on the bl... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
Music
Tyler, the Creator – Cherry Bomb
Dare say it, but has Tyler grown up? In his first effort post-WOLF trilogy the breadth of styles undertaken hints at witnessing a transition into more mature... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
Music
Oneohtrix Point Never on Garden of Delete
Something’s in the air, but then again something always is. From the open confessionals of LiveJournal to the ‘one-left’ temptation on Face... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Music
Daniel Thorne of Immix Ensemble talks Transitions
As Liverpool's Immix Ensemble bring their collaboration with electronic artist Vessel to Manchester this month, we learn about the collective's beginnings, c... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
Art
Alvin Baltrop and Gordon Matta-Clark: The Piers From Here @ Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, until 9 Feb
An abundance of space has always lent itself to cultivation of cultures away from social norms, allowing those who occupy it a chance to create living dreams... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
Music
Ex-Easter Island Head @ Kazimier, Liverpool, 20 Apr
Liverpool-based group Ex-Easter Island Head are in a celebratory mood, having released two highly acclaimed minimalist records in the past 12 months. The mos... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
Music
Arca – Xen
Having spent two years as hip-hop’s secret weapon, Arca’s leap into the spotlight showcases the auteur at his most sensual. Xen, named after Arca... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
Music
Immix with John McGrath and Lucy Pankhurst @ Static, Liverpool, 19 November
In the concluding session of Immix’s highly commended collaboration series, composers John McGrath and Lucy Pankhurst provide a suitably engaging suite... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
Music
Prurient – Frozen Niagara Falls
As with the rest of Prurient’s unforgiving discography, Frozen Niagara Falls is an assault on the senses with barely a moment of respite, however in wh... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
Music
Oneohtrix Point Never – Garden of Delete
If 2013's R Plus Seven was a landscape of delicate synthwork and angelic choral sounds glossing over a murky atmosphere, then Garden of Delete flips the... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Music
Composer-Curator: two new projects tour the UK
The final projects supported by Sound and Music's 2016 Composer-Curator programme are about to head out on tour. We spoke to artists Ailie Robertson, an... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
Festivals
Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia @ Camp and Furnace, 27-28 September
As one of the most anticipated dates in Liverpool’s gigging calendar, this year the onus on Psych Fest was to open the weekender to a bigger audience t... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
Music
Out of Body: Gazelle Twin + Carla Mackinnon @ FACT, Liverpool, 9 April
Puberty, a rite of passage that hopefully everyone traverses relatively unscathed, is an awkward process, but a necessary one. It’s trying, and usually... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
Festivals
MIF15: Arvo Pärt with Manchester Camerata @ Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, 12 July
This year, Manchester International Festival has been graced by one of the most influential and perhaps under-celebrated composers of the past century. Arvo ... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
Music
Kanye West – The Life of Pablo
Coming off the back of his 2010 masterpiece My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, the build up to 2013's Yeezus was relatively low-key, with Kanye Wes... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
Music
Composer-Curator: Neil Luck's Resonance FM show
A new radio show on Resonance FM, Drivetime Underground, presents experimental music in a commercial, 'magazine'-style format – aiming to subvert ... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
Festivals
Utopian Dreams: Threshold festival's visual arts programme
Maybe it’s because we’re presented with countless retrospectives, reunion tours, ‘it wasn’t as good as the old days’ narratives... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
Music
Toumani Diabaté + Sidiki Diabaté @ St George's Hall, Liverpool, 27 May
As one of the most famous griot clans from Mali, the Diabaté family have been bringing West African folk music and the kora to a wider audience for de... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
Music
Arthur Russell's Instrumentals @ Liverpool Kazimier, 11 August
If you’ve spent the past few years regularly attending gigs or clubs in Liverpool then chances are you would have heard the different sides of Arthur R... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Students
Liverpool, from (almost) A-Z
A is for AFTERNAUT, whose background is rooted in video game sound design and whose music is a positively gripping experience of HD-ready electronica B is f... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
Music
Evian Christ / Koreless / Lorenzo Senni / Visionist / TCF @ RNCM, Manchester, 29 March
Despite little being known about upcoming producer TCF, his lush acousmatic composition juxtaposed by gravelly digital decay has stunned audiences and got cr... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
Music
Africa Oyé 2014
Like many port towns, Liverpool has a rich history of cultural exchange and diaspora. It was the location of the UK's first Chinatown and has one of the coun... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
Music
Dean Blunt – Black Metal
Preparing yourself for the unexpected from Dean Blunt is almost a given, and Black Metal is yet again another fascinating sidestep. Despite previous intimati... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
Music
USA Nails – No Pleasure
Let's get it out of the way: USA Nails are a post-hardcore supergroup featuring members of the British underground scene’s finest acts of the past deca... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Music
Saul Williams – MartyrLoserKing
2015 was the year hip-hop grew up… again. But ever since 2001’s Amethyst Rock Star (even five years prior, during his time as a slam poet of som... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Music
Ex-Easter Island Head: A Guide to Minimalism
Seven years strong into their conception and Ex-Easter Island Head are still exploring the ever-enveloping iterations of their pallette: mallet guitars,... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
Art
Cough em if they can't take a choke @ Verge
What do you get when two Scotsmen, a Mexican and a Welsh woman spend three weeks together in a gallery space in Govan? Well, a pretty good show, actually. Th... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
Film
Mike Leigh's new film documents Peterloo Massacre
Cameras start rolling next week on Mike Leigh’s Peterloo The next film from British filmmaker Mike Leigh, the celebrated director of Secrets & Lie... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago