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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MusicArab Strap announce reunion gigs
Arab Strap, Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton's seminal indie pop project, have announced a second Glasgow show as part of their 20th anniversary reunion. ... Read more »| 15 Jun 2016 -
ArtGSA Degree Show 2016: Master of Fine Art
For the seventh year running the Glue Factory in Glasgow sets the scene for Glasgow School of Art’s (GSA) MFA degree show. Read more »| 15 Jun 2016 -
ArtGSA Degree Show 2016: Mackintosh Campus Appeal
Within hours of the fire that engulfed the Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art in May 2014, one message emerged loud and clear: ‘The Mack,’ as it is affectionately known, is a place that inspires people Read more »| 15 Jun 2016 -
Art
GSA Degree Show 2016: Design
From class and cultural identity to pressing humanitarian concerns, there's a wealth of ideas on display in the ever-diverse field of Design Read more »| 15 Jun 2016 -
Books
The North's best indie bookshops
To mark Independent Bookshop Week (18-25 June), we selected some of our favourite independent book stores in the North and suggested some titles you could re... Read more »| 15 Jun 2016 -
Comedy
Is the Edinburgh Fringe too small?
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme was launched to a chorus of disappointment last week, as it was discovered that the Fringe has shrunk in size. Read more »| 15 Jun 2016
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Music
Michael Tanner – Suite For Psaltery and Dulcimer
Michael Tanner makes remarkably elegant and literate folk music which derives inspiration from an imagined future as much as from a reimagined past. Suite Fo... Read more »| 15 Jun 2016 -
Music
Warpaint to open Liverpool Music Week
Warpaint will head the line-up for this year's Liverpool Music Week, as part of a string of UK tour dates this autumn. Warpaint play the Liverpool Music Wee... Read more »| 14 Jun 2016 -
ArtManchester School of Art Degree Show 2016
Manchester School of Art boasts one of the largest offerings of art and design courses in the UK. The annual degree show is its opportunity to present this v... Read more »| 14 Jun 2016 -
Art
This Week in Scottish Art: 14-20 June
It's a week of big events with Print Festival Scotland 2016 and Embassy Annuale 2016 Read more »| 14 Jun 2016 -
Art
Alice Myers: The Skinny Showcase
Between 2012 and 2014, photographer Alice Myers traveled backward and forward to Calais, where she worked with migrants and refugees who were attempting to cross the Channel. Read more »| 13 Jun 2016 -
Books
Literary event highlights in the North: June 2016
There's something for everyone in this month's roundup of literary events and readings across the North – whether you're interested in the backstr... Read more »| 10 Jun 2016 -
Music
Whitney – Light Upon The Lake
Retrophobiacs look away now: Max Kakacek and Julian Ehrlich of the glam-rock cribbing Smith Westerns have returned, except this time they’ve dialed the... Read more »| 10 Jun 2016 -
Music
Deerhoof – The Magic
So you’re one of your generation’s most hyper-creative and hard-to-pin-down acts, riding a hot streak that lasts well over half of your 20-year-p... Read more »| 10 Jun 2016 -
Music
Kate Jackson & The Wrong Moves @ The Hug and Pint, 4 June
Whoever released Kaspar Hauser from their box is certain to be looking sheepish. Loud, unctuous, and wielding darkwave hooks straight out of some 1983 nether... Read more »| 09 Jun 2016