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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BooksComma Press launch new literary platform MacGuffin
Comma Press has launched MacGuffin, a new self-publishing platform for fiction, essays and poetry. The Manchester-based imprint – who specialise in sho... Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
ArtManchester School of Art Degree Show: Breaking Boundaries
At this year's Manchester School of Art degree shows we found an interesting experiment in curation, with the boundaries between courses broken down Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
ArtOPEN 1 @ Open Eye Gallery
Open 1 marks the start of a new series of annual exhibitions that showcase work and research projects that have been submitted to Open Eye since 2013. Open E... Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
Art
Cannons & Kickstarters: This Week in Scottish Art
This weekend sees art parties in Dundee and Glasgow, as well as new exhibitions and one-off events at Fruitmarket, DCA, and Generator plus a trip to London for some new GSA graduates. Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
Art
Et Dieu Créa la Femme @ Good Press
The black and white partial view of Venus that opens Et Dieu Crea La Femme, edited by Tine Bek,embodies the elusive and diverse nature of femininity that the... Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
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They Had Four Years @ Generator Dundee
Entering They Had Four Years, Generator’s pick of last year’s degree shows, a loud mechanical thrumming emanates from a go-kart made from an old ... Read more »| 30 Jun 2015
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BooksStop the Clocks: Natasha Pulley on The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
As Natasha Pulley releases her acclaimed debut novel, The Skinny talks to her about history writing itself and finding her feet in the present Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
Film
Northwest Film Event Highlights – July 2015
This month there's a chance to relive the summer of 96 at the movies, compare two twisted takes on American suburbia and catch a doc on the rise of ear-bashing industrial rock Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
MusicLee Bannon – Pattern of Excel
Turns out this’ll be the last album from the artist formerly known as Lee Bannon; from now on he’ll be working under the name “¬ b&rdqu... Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
Art
UCLan Fine Art Degree Show: Exposé
‘Exposé’ is the theme of UCLan’s Fine Art Degree show. It’s unclear whether this is a strict theme, or just nominal, but as an... Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
Music
Scottish Gig Highlights – July 2015
It's festival fever this month as T In The Park, Kelburn Garden Party and Wickerman return, while Wild Beasts play Edinburgh and Cannibal Ox visit Glasgow. Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
Comedy
The bunny-boiler's book: Jessie Cave interview
Jessie Cave talks to The Skinny about her new book Love Sick and upcoming Fringe show I Loved Her Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
Art
The heart is deceitful above all things @ HOME, Manchester
I moved from London to Liverpool aged ten and started a new primary school. In the playground, on the first day, a group of girls waved a copy of Smash Hits ... Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – July 2015
A Heavenly Records showcase, the strung-out psychedelic shimmer of The Holydrug Couple plus the beats of Femi Kuti and Nubiyan Twist – it’s a blissed-out July in the Northwest Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
Books
The Cartel by Don Winslow
Don Winslow’s The Power of the Dog was an epic fictional dissection of the US-Mexican drug wars, rightly regarded as a modern classic of crime fiction.... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015