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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MusicThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 17 April
Shane Meadows on his new Stone Roses biopic; new music from Camera Obscura, Poliça, Gold Panda, Optimo and Mark Lanegan; the latest festival news on ATP, Latitude, Bloodstock and more; plus Moog release free app for iPhone Read more »| 17 Apr 2013 -
Music
Business Time: Liverpool Sound City
Following in the footsteps of South by Southwest and New York's CMJ Music Marathon, expo-style festivals like Liverpool's Sound City seem to be going from strength to strength. But what do they really offer bands? The Skinny investigates Read more »| 17 Apr 2013 -
MusicTeam Ghost / Sonic Hearts Foundation @ Broadcast, 10 April
Despite the entire evening being beset with technical problems – vocals drift in and out, disappearing behind squalls of guitar feedback, and the ... Read more »| 16 Apr 2013 -
Film
Love Is All You Need
Yet another wedding-themed romantic comedy, Susanne Bier’s Love Is All You Need thankfully eschews the crass hi-jinks of its recent predecessors to pro... Read more »| 16 Apr 2013 -
Film
Olympus Has Fallen
Over five flicks of decreasing quality, Die Hard’s John McClane has found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time with great regularity, lucklessl... Read more »| 16 Apr 2013 -
ArtThe Skinny Northwest Launch
The Skinny Northwest Launch So, you're launching a new monthly arts and culture magazine in the Northwest of England. How best to go about it? A small soir&... Read more »| 16 Apr 2013
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Music
The Age of Poli-Pop: Neon Neon unveil Praxis Makes Perfect
Gruff Rhys and Boom Bip reconvene as Neon Neon to talk Italian communists, political pop and 'extreme concerts' Read more »| 16 Apr 2013 -
FilmKnightriders
Knightriders opens with a wonderful visual gag. Through a gauzy lens we see a naked Ed Harris awake with his lady friend in sylvan glade. After bathing in th... Read more »| 16 Apr 2013 -
MusicColin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light
Sometime session saxophonist Colin Stetson has been blazing a strange and experimental path with his New History Warfare series, in which unique pl... Read more »| 16 Apr 2013 -
Music
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 15 April
Deftones' Chi Cheng remembered; new music from Daft Punk, The National, King Midas Sound and Black Pus; Grizzly Bear's ATP event re-scheduled; Wu-Tang Clan announce new album and tour, plus: General Zod is not amused Read more »| 15 Apr 2013 -
Music
Steve Mason @ King Tuts, Glasgow, 9 April
By his own estimation, Steve Mason is operating at about 80% strength tonight due to a lousy start-of-tour cold. But, he adds, “that’s still enou... Read more »| 15 Apr 2013 -
Film
Small Pleasures: Sam Meech on A Small Cinema
We all hate the multiplex, its strange odours, its soulless architecture, its noisy patrons and their volcano acne. But what's a film-lover to do? Sam Meech, creator of A Small Cinema, has a solution Read more »| 15 Apr 2013 -
Film
Evil Dead
Few 80s horrors have escaped the unflinching gaze of the ruthless Hollywood remake machine. But some thought The Evil Dead, Sam Raimi’s scrappy, much-l... Read more »| 15 Apr 2013 -
Music
Cut Yourself in Half – Mekkanizm
Yorkshire's Cut Yourself in Half lift more than a few pages from Mastodon's book on this first set of recordings: the down-tuned, groove-oriented nature of t... Read more »| 15 Apr 2013 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: April 2013 Horoscopes
ARIES April sees you discover a demonic real-life computer game cheat written in an ancient grimoire. Jump, jump, blink, blink, squat, step forwards, step ba... Read more »| 12 Apr 2013