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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MusicEx Hex announce February 2015 UK dates
US power trio Ex Hex have confirmed a series of UK gigs early next year, including shows in Glasgow and Manchester. Mary Timony, Betsy Wright and Laura Harr... Read more »| 13 Oct 2014 -
MusicDavid Bowie unveils jazzy new track ‘Sue’
Rock legend David Bowie has shared new track ‘Sue (Or In a Season of Crime)’, a sprawling seven-minute jazz epic taken from new compilation album... Read more »| 13 Oct 2014 -
Theatre
Transmissions @ The Lowry Studio
Addiction is one of those difficult and disputed problems that is often talked about but seldom agreed upon. Is it an illness? Is it genetic? Does it stem fr... Read more »| 13 Oct 2014 -
FilmNorthern Soul
Back in the 60s and 70s, a generation of music fans fell in love with an underground dance movement known as northern soul. Flourishing in the north of Engla... Read more »| 13 Oct 2014 -
Music
Question & Answer: Clint Mansell chronicles his career
Clint Mansell, one time frontman for ‘grebo’ hucksters Pop Will Eat Itself, underwent a radical overhaul in the mid-nineties. From goodtime front... Read more »| 10 Oct 2014 -
Music
Iceage – Plowing into the Field of Love
The Lord's Favourite and Forever weren't red herrings, Iceage are – for this album at least – done with punk's unshackled abandon, songs that rag... Read more »| 10 Oct 2014
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FilmThe Maze Runner
The Maze Runner boasts an intriguing, Twilight Zone-style premise. In the opening sequence, a young man (Dylan O'Brien) wakes up in a moving freight lift wit... Read more »| 10 Oct 2014 -
Music
Nine Inch Nails, Kraftwerk, N.W.A and The Smiths nominated for 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails could soon join the ranks of rock royalty, after the industrial pioneers were nominated for a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall... Read more »| 09 Oct 2014 -
Music
Mugstar unveil their own God Unknown Records and singles club
Liverpool drone heroes Mugstar are set to expand their horizons yet again with the launch of a new record label. Founded by bassist Jason Stoll, God Unknown... Read more »| 09 Oct 2014 -
Music
“The very idea of being in a band in 2014 is pretty stupid” – Dope Body interviewed
Dope Body's Andrew Laumann and David Jacober say the Baltimore noise rock four-piece are fighting for air on their riotous latest album, Lifer Read more »| 09 Oct 2014 -
Theatre
Blabbermouth @ Assembly Hall
On the eve of the historic Referendum vote, in the Assembly Hall on the Mound, first debating room of the devolved parliament, an event takes place that is p... Read more »| 09 Oct 2014 -
Music
John Grant and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra @ MediaCityUK, 3 October
A live studio recording of one of America's finest modern songwriters with a world-class orchestra in their own purpose-built facility isn't really a gig for... Read more »| 09 Oct 2014 -
Film
Annabelle
If the thought of a low-rent prequel to James Wan’s The Conjuring helmed by his director of photography holds little excitement, watching Annabell... Read more »| 09 Oct 2014 -
Film
Female-led Ghostbusters 'reboot' confirmed
A new Ghostbusters film – with an all-female crop of ‘Busters – has been confirmed by director Paul Feig. Feig told US magazine Enter... Read more »| 09 Oct 2014 -
Film
Moebius
Kim Ki-duk's recent films have been as ugly in form as they have been in content. Moebius, his latest psychosexual drama, is no different. Shot hand-hel... Read more »| 09 Oct 2014