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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ClubsSaine Music Playlist: Under the Influence
Contributing to the first release on Andy Hart's new label Voyage, out at the end of this month, Finnish producer Saine reckons with ten rekkids that have filtered in to his sound Read more »| 03 Jun 2014 -
ComedyCrystal Baws: June 2014 Horoscopes
ARIESLike some sort of Hannibal Blumenthal you open the UK’s first human bell-end restaurant, blowing diners away with your exotic award-winning cuisin... Read more »| 03 Jun 2014 -
ClubsBeneath the Label: Head Front Panel
This month we talk to Tabernacle co-founder, Andrew Ingram, about the label's mysterious new techno venture Read more »| 03 Jun 2014 -
Clubs
Living the Nightmare: Nightmares on Wax Turns 25
Before the release of a career-spanning best of album, Nightmares on Wax reflects on his Silver Jubilee Read more »| 03 Jun 2014 -
TheatreIn Good Company: Quarantine
In the first of a new series circling in on theatre’s most exciting troupes and groups, we decide it’s time that daring company Quarantine, with a seasonal quartet of works commencing this month, were on your radar Read more »| 03 Jun 2014 -
Theatre
The Sweetest Revival: A Taste of Honey
Shelagh Delaney's 1950s masterpiece A Taste of Honey comes to the Lowry in a revival with Rebecca Ryan, star of TV's Shameless, in the lead role. We ponder the longevity of this 'magic play' Read more »| 03 Jun 2014
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Clubs
Scotland Clubbing Highlights – June 2014
This month we clear space in the diary for Todd Edwards, Andy Stott, House of Traps and Demdike Stare Read more »| 03 Jun 2014 -
Comedy
Ask Fred: Religion
Unfazed by the perils of the job, this month our resident everything-expert gets spiritual... Read more »| 03 Jun 2014 -
TheatreOrdinary Days @ The King's Arms, Salford, 16-21 Jun
Serendipity is the overriding theme of Adam Gwon’s refreshing new musical, Ordinary Days, which saunters into Salford’s King's Arms Theatre for a... Read more »| 03 Jun 2014 -
Theatre
The Lion King @ Liverpool Empire, until 5 Jul
This reviewer has a confession to make. Despite the hype, awards and stream of five-star reviews, The Lion King has never been a production at the top of my ... Read more »| 03 Jun 2014 -
Music
Glitterbug – Dust
A companion piece to Gold Panda's globetrotting electronic odyssey Half Of Where You Live, the second album from Till Rohmann, aka Glitterbug, is almost beatless for its first three tracks Read more »| 03 Jun 2014 -
Music
A Good Egg: Danny Brown debunks his myths
As he prepares to play the Parklife Weekender, we speak to Detroit rap star Danny Brown about leaving the lean years behind, mankind's internet future, and why hard-boiled savoury snacks are not the enemy Read more »| 03 Jun 2014 -
Film
Fruitvale Station
The difficulty with dramatising true-life events – particularly incendiary ones from the recent past – is knowing just how much fiction to infuse... Read more »| 03 Jun 2014 -
Art
Bury Bury Good for You: Lawrence Weiner and the launch of Bury Sculpture Centre
Bury Sculpture Centre opened its doors for the first time last month with the fourth edition of Bury Text Festival. The Skinny caught up with Sculpture Centre boss Tony Trehy and super-sculptor/conceptualist Lawrence Weiner Read more »| 03 Jun 2014 -
Books
Letters of James Agee to Father Flye by James Agee
In one of the later letters of celebrated writer James Agee to his lifelong confidant Father Flye, Agee mentions Montaigne's essay on his near-perfect, myth-... Read more »| 03 Jun 2014