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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ArtAndrea Cotton and Naomi Lethbridge @ Paper Gallery, Manchester, until 15 Jun
For the sixth show at Manchester's Paper Gallery, Andrea Cotton exhibits alongside Naomi Lethbridge. Both artists are represented by the gallery, and have a ... Read more »| 05 Jun 2013 -
Theatre
Let The Right One In @ Dundee Rep, 5-29 Jun
The original was a dark, weighty slice of Swedish horror and the American adaptation was surprisingly competent. It begs the question: where is there left to... Read more »| 05 Jun 2013 -
MusicRose Windows – The Sun Dogs
This Seattle septet anchor their sound in the shamanistic explorations and bruising riffs of psych and stoner rock: the sonic texture of The Sun Dogs&nb... Read more »| 05 Jun 2013 -
Music
Serengeti – Kenny Dennis LP
Serengeti's last LP for Anticon, C.A.R., had a refreshing sense of fun and humour to its loosely-scribbled hip-hop beats, with Jel and Odd Nosdam joining Ser... Read more »| 05 Jun 2013 -
MusicPalms – Palms
Despite escalating popularity at the time they called it quits, there’s a feeling that ISIS – not wishing to "push past the point of a digni... Read more »| 05 Jun 2013 -
MusicDope Body survey June's singles
Prior to a night of fierce sweating, Baltimore noise-rockers (and March 'Track of the Month' champions) Dope Body try to muster some love for this month’s offerings, and debate whether or not that’s a marimba in there Read more »| 04 Jun 2013
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Art
Matthew Denniss: Future Imperfect
A joint exhibition at Manchester's Bureau gallery, The Utopian Buck Stops Here sees Matthew Denniss inspect the dreams – and failings – of modernist architecture Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Music
Stag & Dagger 2013: Glasgow, 18 May
Though its sights were initially set on a healthy mix of hotly tipped buzz bands and home-grown underdogs, Glasgow's annual Stag & Dagger festival has ti... Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Art
Carol Bove @ The Common Guild, until 29 Jun
Carol Bove’s show The Foamy Saliva of a Horse seems in many ways typical of Common Guild fare. The installation takes various small-scale objects, made... Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Film
Opinion: There's Nowt So Queer As Labels
You'll have seen the headlines: 'Lesbian Film Wins Palme d'Or.' But why do only same-sex love stories have their orientation declared? Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Film
Aguirre, Herzog and The Secret Mainstream
A screening of Aguirre: Wrath of God in a newly restored print offers the chance enjoy anew Werner Herzog's 1972 classic Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Theatre
Blue Monday: The Library Theatre Company present Manchester Sound: The Massacre
Presenting two pivotal points in history – the Peterloo Massacre and the explosion of rave culture – the Library Theatre Company’s new site-specific work Manchester Sound: The Massacre takes us to a secret location in search of independence and freedom Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Music
Congo Natty – Jungle Revolution
The press release for Jungle Revolution states that Congo Natty (aka Rebel MC) ‘sees jungle as a re-boot of roots reggae for a new century&rs... Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Film
Joss Whedon on Much Ado About Nothing
We speak to director, writer and wannabe stuntman Joss Whedon about his switch from Avengers' billion dollar comic-book franchise to Much Ado About Nothing, the low budget Shakespeare adaptation he shot in and around his Santa Monica home Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Music
Tunng – Turbines
Frontiersmen and women of the ‘folktronica’ movement, Tunng have long blended gentle, well-rounded folk melodies with morsels of twee electronic ... Read more »| 04 Jun 2013