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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ClubsClub nights in Leeds this week: 16-23 Feb
It's a varied weekend in Leeds clubs as hip-hop and grime night Lord of the Tings makes its city debut, big-top DJs Dusky play Canal Mills and ALTER explore the psychedelic end of techno with Peter Van Hoesen. Read more »| 16 Feb 2017 -
ClubsClub nights in Liverpool this week: 16-23 Feb
Some interesting choices on the Liverpool club scene this week, including a tribute to J Dilla at 24 Kitchen Street and rising star Or:la playing her first full, all-night set. Read more »| 16 Feb 2017 -
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Club nights in Manchester this week: 16-23 Feb
It's shaping up to be a standout weekend for clubs in Manchester, with Maurice Fulton, Livity Sound's Peverelist and Kowton and Erol Alkan all playing shows that are either cheap as chips or intimate AF. Read more »| 16 Feb 2017 -
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Live music in Manchester this week: 15-21 Feb
Brooklyn noisemakers Sleigh Bells, local trio Cassia, Northern Soul icon Betty Harris and even wannabe moonlight fighter LeAnn Rimes all feature on Manchester's stages this week. It's an eclectic week, kids Read more »| 16 Feb 2017 -
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Cabbage @ Gorilla, Manchester, 11 Feb
As Mossley outfit Cabbage tear through a solid 50 minutes of immersive post-punk motifs and unashamedly abrasive left-wing politics, you get t... Read more »| 16 Feb 2017 -
FilmHandsome Devil
John Butler channels 80s John Hughes for this Irish coming out story, but unfortunately he also borrows that era's conservative approach to sexuality. Read more »| 16 Feb 2017
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FilmNeruda
Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín wraps his story of revolutionary poet Pablo Neruda within a fictional narrative. The approach is sadly unsuccessful Read more »| 16 Feb 2017 -
Music
The Feelies – In Between
Having recently celebrated their fortieth birthday, New Jersey’s The Feelies know better than most how to burn slowly. More placid ripples than Crazy R... Read more »| 15 Feb 2017 -
MusicLive music in Liverpool this week: 15-21 Feb
Hotly-tipped R'n'B stars, country singers on the rise and a whole load of pop-punk: the best gigs in Liverpool over the next seven days Read more »| 15 Feb 2017 -
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The Pigeon Detectives – Broken Glances
Say what you want about The Pigeon Detectives but they’ve stuck at it. The Leeds five-piece’s career after their platinum selling debut album Wai... Read more »| 15 Feb 2017 -
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The Road to Mandalay
Burmese director Midi Z's vivid new film follows a pair of illegal immigrants in Bangkok. Read more »| 15 Feb 2017 -
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Great queer romances on Netflix
It's LGBT History Month, so whether you're gay, bi, straight or somewhere else on the sexual spectrum, it's the perfect excuse to see more queer cinema. Here... Read more »| 14 Feb 2017 -
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Julian Cope @ Gorilla, Manchester, 10 Feb
Taking to Gorilla’s stage – itself formed from rags and patches of what look like safety deposit boxes – like the sole survivor of a n... Read more »| 14 Feb 2017 -
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Andy Shauf @ Gullivers, Manchester, 9 Feb
Like his music, Andy Shauf’s entrance is endearingly understated. As the band politely shuffle their way through the crowd and onto the stage, pre-show... Read more »| 14 Feb 2017 -
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Crystal Fairy – Crystal Fairy
“Written and recorded over pho while watching cannibal movies” is how Omar Rodriguez-Lopez explains supergroup Crystal Fairy’s debut LP, an... Read more »| 14 Feb 2017