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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ArtLeonora Carrington @ Tate Liverpool
When the featured artist of an exhibition is a Lancashire-born Mexican surrealist, you can almost guarantee you'll encounter some wonderful weirdness. It's s... Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
ComedyThe Skinny Comedy Spotlight returns at Greater Manchester Fringe
Danny Sutcliffe, Will Setchell and Jayne Edwards are among the comics lined up for our second comedy showcase, as part of this year’s Greater Mancheste... Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
FilmPortrait of the Artist as an Abhorrent Young Man: Alex Ross Perry on Listen Up Philip
Alex Ross Perry is one of the most exciting names in American indie cinema. We chat to the 30-year-old writer-director about his latest film, Listen Up Philip, a caustic comedy centred on an obnoxious young novelist played by Jason Schwartzman Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
Film
Scotland Film Event Highlights – June 2015
Cinephiles needn’t wait 'til EIFF to get their flick kicks, as Martin Scorsese leads a veritable Polish invasion to our shores, the Filmhouse introduces a brand-spanking new monthly queer cinematic showcase and Glasgow Comic Con takes over Glasgow's CCA Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
MusicListen: Flamingods' Supersonic podcast
As a prelude to this year's Supersonic Festival in Birmingham (running 11-14 June), we present this cosmic podcast carefully crafted by Flamingods. The... Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
Art
Eastern Exchanges @ Manchester Art Gallery
The scale and scope of Eastern Exchanges is imposing, with three vast galleries filled with quintessential East Asian works of craft, art, fabric and built s... Read more »| 01 Jun 2015
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Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – June 2015
Three idiosyncratic songwriters (Waxahatchee, Natalie Prass and Jenny Hval), two outsiders (Ariel Pink and Dan Deacon), a fond farewell (Cyril Snear) and a one-off homecoming (Outfit). That's your month's gig highlights Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
Music
Listen: Woodenbox premiere new album Foreign Organ
Ahead of its release on 8 June via Glasgow's Olive Grove Records, Americana imbued sextet Woodenbox share an early listen of their latest LP Foreign Organ, e... Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
Comedy
Will Duggan: Comedy Spotlight
Will Duggan talks beating up Pop Idol contestants, making 15 minutes last 40 and being guided by ghosts. Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
Music
Mew @ The Ritz, Manchester, 19 May
If anything's to brighten this sticky city night, Mew should manage it. Marking 20 years since they got together at school, the recent release of their sixth... Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
Books
The Good Dark by Ryan Van Winkle
There are certain buttons a writer can push for any individual reader that initiate a simple, powerful 'yes to this' response and pretty much destroy the pot... Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
Film
Northwest Film Event Highlights – June 2015
Cockney gangsters, dandy vampires, gonzo journalists and singing nuns: it's another eclectic cinematic offering this month Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
Film
Listen Up Philip
With its portentous narration and bike-riding/book writing aesthetic, this third feature from Alex Ross Perry is a masterclass in tarnished twee. Shot on fad... Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
Art
Eat Abstractly @ Mary Mary
Mary Mary showcases a breadth of international artists in a photography centred exhibition. Across the 18 works that make up Eat Abstractly is a dispers... Read more »| 01 Jun 2015 -
Art
Liz Larner @ The Modern Insitute
An ambulance is pulled up outside the Modern Institute and two medics are attending to the fallout of a recent street brawl. Stepping from the pavement ... Read more »| 01 Jun 2015