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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MusicFirst Person: Ten Years of Sounds from the Other City
Organiser Mark Carlin reflects on a decade of Salford's Sounds from the Other City festival, which brings together local promoters and fierce DIY principles and celebrates its 10th anniversary this year Read more »| 23 Apr 2014 -
ClubsBugged Out Weekender @ Pontins, Southport, 7-9 Mar
The attraction of a full English by the seaside isn’t the only reason why over six thousand punters would choose to set up camp at Southport's Pontins ... Read more »| 22 Apr 2014 -
FilmFilm News: Ryan Gosling and more for Cannes 2014, Marc Webb talks Spiderman 2
A round-up of film news, including the first announcements for Cannes 2014, Marc Webb on Spider-Man 2, Quentin Tarantino gives The Hateful Eight script a public airing, plus the latest casting rumours and trailers Read more »| 21 Apr 2014 -
MusicGeorge Clinton @ The Ritz, Manchester, 17 April
George Clinton has spent the best part of the last 40 years orchestrating the freakiest gang of funkateers known to mankind. How freaky you ask? The answer l... Read more »| 21 Apr 2014 -
Film
That Sinking Feeling
‘The action of this film takes place in a fictitious town called Glasgow. Any resemblance to any real town called Glasgow is purely coincidental.&rsquo... Read more »| 21 Apr 2014 -
Film
Wrinkles
From recent efforts like The Illusionist and Up to 1986’s When the Wind Blows, animation as a medium has served elderly protagonists particularly well;... Read more »| 21 Apr 2014
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Film
Exhibition
After two impressive features that established Joanna Hogg as a distinctive voice in British cinema, her third film, Exhibition, finds the filmmake... Read more »| 18 Apr 2014 -
Music
Cloud Sounds #13: The Roots, Golden Teacher, Krokodil, Eno & Hyde and more
Our weekly playlist also includes new tracks from Chris & Cosey, Echo & the Bunnymen, WIFE, Four Tet as Percussions, Twin Shadow, and The Afghan Whigs Read more »| 17 Apr 2014 -
Comedy
Comedy Spotlight: Liam Bolton
Meet a comedian who knows what he hates Read more »| 17 Apr 2014 -
Art
Art News: Jupiter Artland's 2014 programme unveiled, John Moore's Painting Prize longlist announced
A round-up of art news, including the announcement of the 2014 programme at Jupiter Artland, and the longlist for the John Moore's University Painting Prize; plus exhibitions at Glasgow International and Liverpool's Baltic Creative, and more Read more »| 16 Apr 2014 -
Music
Record Store Day 2014 – Events Guide
We take a look at events happening near you on Record Store Day (19 April), featuring live performances from Sacred Paws, Stanley Odd, Ubre Blanca, Broken Records, LAW and a whole host of others Read more »| 15 Apr 2014 -
Music
This Could Be The Last Time: The Twilight Sad in the Studio
James Graham from The Twilight Sad tells us why he wrote the band’s fourth album as if it could be their last, looks back on ten years of touring, and the imminent reissue of their classic debut, Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters Read more »| 15 Apr 2014 -
Music
The Faint – Doom Abuse
These Nebraskan digital punks vanished like a deleted file not long after the release of 2008’s Fasciinatiion, seemingly leaving The Faint to be no mor... Read more »| 15 Apr 2014 -
Music
Detour's Wee Jaunt returns to Edinburgh
Detour Scotland's pop-up gig showcase, the Wee Jaunt, have announced another series of seven secret gigs, this time happening at seven yet-to-be-confirmed lo... Read more »| 14 Apr 2014 -
Music
The Skull Defekts – Dances in Dreams of the Known Unknown
Welcome to the pleasuredrone. You have to hear this. Or maybe you don’t. (But you do.) Latest album from the Swedish noise stalwarts is more of their v... Read more »| 14 Apr 2014