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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ClubsGuest Selector: Joakim
Multi-talented Crowdspacer/Tigersushi head honcho Joakim guides us through the ten tracks that make him think of summer Read more »| 06 Aug 2016 -
BooksThe Heavenly Table by Donald Ray Pollock
The revisionist treatment of the American West has gathered pace over decades, with John Wayne’s pristine duds and decency decomposing into Deadwood's ... Read more »| 06 Aug 2016 -
MusicA Guide to Deep Time
Edinburgh International Festival gets underway this Sunday with The Standard Life Opening Event: Deep Time – but what's beneath that mystical title? We... Read more »| 05 Aug 2016 -
Music
The Fall @ Òran Mór, Glasgow, 30 July
In 1988 Mark E Smith joined fellow maverick songwriters Nick Cave and Shane MacGowan for a drink in a south London boozer. The occasion was a magazine interv... Read more »| 05 Aug 2016 -
Art
Gerda Scheepers @ Mary Mary
Gerda Scheepers peels away at commonplace flat-packed disposable furniture to make unexpected allusions to the body and its heavy physicality Read more »| 05 Aug 2016 -
Film
Best film screenings in the North (5-12 Aug)
The best film events happening in Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds this week, including HOME's Soundtrack season and FACT's rare screening of Jacques Rivette'... Read more »| 05 Aug 2016
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BooksPoetry News – Scotland, August 2016
It’s festival season again in Auld Reekie – this one’s going to be a good 'un, with plenty of must-see poetry events to add to your list Read more »| 05 Aug 2016 -
Art
Cathy Wilkes @ The Modern Institute
Cathy Wilkes assembles found objects and new works, but all with a certain layer of grime Read more »| 05 Aug 2016 -
FilmSuicide Squad
Dullest. Heroes. Ever Read more »| 05 Aug 2016 -
Books
Pepita by Vita Sackville-West
It was recently announced that Virginia Woolf's scandalous love affair with Vita Sackville-West will soon be immortalised in celluloid. Despite having since ... Read more »| 05 Aug 2016 -
Music
Reasons to be Cheerful: Liverpool and Arts Spaces
Eight months on from the final show at the Kazimier, another Liverpool theatre closes. With the city's independent venues and arts spaces repeatedly coming under threat, we look at the full story, and find plenty of reasons for optimism Read more »| 05 Aug 2016 -
Books
The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss
'If I had dared, I would have reached out to put my arm around my sad, cold daughter.' At the core of Moss’s fifth novel is a parent-child relationship... Read more »| 04 Aug 2016 -
Clubs
Club nights in Leeds this week: 6-11 Aug
In your dancing diary for the weekend: Yousef makes a much-anticipated return to Leeds while a brand new free party at The Old Red Bus Station looks intriguing. Read more »| 04 Aug 2016 -
Clubs
Club nights in Liverpool this week: 6-11 Aug
There's only one place to be this weekend, and that's at a 17-hour party. Specific, we know. But there's also an apocalypse-themed sports day to look forward to... Read more »| 04 Aug 2016 -
Clubs
Club nights in Manchester this week: 5-11 Aug
Lots to choose from this weekend, including a new party at Soup as Reform Radio's Body to Move show gets a live outing, and a first cuddle-up at the Whiskey Jar for the Can You Dig It? crew, who get heavy with Deep Space Orchestra. Read more »| 04 Aug 2016