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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MusicCloud Sounds #7: with Fat Goth, Kate Tempest, Factory Floor, Cloud Nothings and more
The latest installment of our Music team's regular playlist also features OFF!, J. Spaceman of Spiritualized, Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene, Matthew Dear as Audion, and much more Read more »| 03 Mar 2014 -
ComedyCrystal Baws: March 2014 Horoscopes
ARIES Peering over the railings on a day out at Sellafield, your safety goggles slip off into a vat of highly radioactive fission waste. Not wishing to break... Read more »| 03 Mar 2014 -
Clubs
Scotland Clubbing Highlights – March 2014
In March’s extended highlights preview, we look forward to the Wee Dub Festival, Moodymann, Fudge Fingas and Helena Hauff Read more »| 03 Mar 2014 -
MusicEagulls @ The Shipping Forecast, Liverpool, 27 Feb
It's over too quickly. That's the general consensus in the Shipping Forecast tonight, as a raucous set slaloms to a sudden end. But that's Eagulls for you. T... Read more »| 03 Mar 2014 -
Music
Joan as Police Woman – The Classic
There are times, as on the Motown-fuelled Holy City, a breathless, ribald devotional (“Yeah, I’m ready to get up on your wailing wall!”), w... Read more »| 03 Mar 2014 -
Books
Mrs Hemingway by Naomi Wood
Ernest Hemingway was a great man: a writer, a lover, a fighter. But this novel is about the women who normally comprise his subplot – the wives. O... Read more »| 03 Mar 2014
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Film
Aussie Rules: Ted Kotcheff reflects on his 1971 classic Wake in Fright
Ahead of the reissue of Wake in Fright, a blistering study of Outback machismo from 1971, we speak to its director Ted Kotcheff about the film's shoot in Broken Hill, New South Wales Read more »| 03 Mar 2014 -
Music
Liverpool's Get Into This Award: Shortlist announced, featuring Evian Christ, Ninetails and more
The shortlist for this year's GIT (GetIntoThis) Award has been announced, and it included a few Skinny favourites from Liverpool and beyond, like Evian Crist, Forest Swords, Ninetails, Dan Croll and Tea Street Band Read more »| 03 Mar 2014 -
MusicKing Midas – Rosso
King Midas have some reacquainting to do. Rosso is the Norwegian cult act's first album in six years, but it's also their international debut. An odd blend o... Read more »| 03 Mar 2014 -
Music
Elbow – The Take Off and Landing of Everything
“Was the universe in rehearsal?” wonders Guy Garvey on opener The World is Blue. Clocking at nearly eight minutes and ghosting to a string-driven... Read more »| 03 Mar 2014 -
Clubs
Northwest Clubbing Highlights – March 2014
March brings another smattering of quality acts including Mathias Kaden for mUmU in Liverpool, and a fifth birthday bash for Zutekh! in Manchester with Midland and Trevino. And then, of course, there's Bugged Out... Read more »| 03 Mar 2014 -
Music
The Stars And Psychs: Sudden Death of Stars Interviewed
French revivalists Sudden Death of Stars are quietly yet assuredly leading the way in bringing the psych back into pop. Or should that be the other way round? We went all the way to Rennes to investigate Read more »| 01 Mar 2014 -
Film
The Tale of Iya
Iya is a place, not a person, although it comes to be one over a 169 minute running time which never overstays its welcome. This is the astonishing second fi... Read more »| 01 Mar 2014 -
Film
CineSkinny Awards 2014
As GFF14 comes to a close, we look back at another successful festival and hand out some of the coveted CineSkinny awards. Who needs the Oscars? Read more »| 01 Mar 2014 -
FilmLocke
If the close-up is cinema’s most powerful tool, not to be overused, tell director Steven Knight, who focuses intently of the face of Tom Hardy in this ... Read more »| 28 Feb 2014