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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BooksUnholy Night: Emma Jane Unsworth, Richard Hirst and the Christmas ghost story
As they prepare to publish an anthology of ghost stories for Christmas, Emma Jane Unsworth and Richard Hirst discuss the format's unique license to chill Read more »| 04 Dec 2013 -
ClubsPerfect 10: Numbers Set to Celebrate in Style
Richard Chater ponders the ten year anniversary of Glaswegian clubbing institution, Numbers Read more »| 04 Dec 2013 -
Theatre
Heart on a String: War Horse and the Power of Puppetry
As international phenomenon War Horse comes to Salford's Lowry, we ask why it's taken the National Theatre's blockbuster show to convince audiences of puppetry's emotional power as an art form – and that it's not just for kids Read more »| 04 Dec 2013 -
ClubsDJ Chart: Neville Watson
House music stalwart Neville Watson picks ten records that have been set-regulars over his 20 year career Read more »| 04 Dec 2013 -
Comedy
What Offends Frankie Boyle?
The cantankerous old bastard on retiring, satanic sex murders and James Arthur Read more »| 04 Dec 2013 -
Music
Cinematic Orchestrator: Cliff Martinez recaps over two decades of film scoring
With Only God Forgives about to hit DVD, composer, former Chili Pepper and Captain Beefheart collaborator Cliff Martinez looks back on more than twenty years of soundtrack composition Read more »| 03 Dec 2013
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Clubs
Northwest Clubbing Highlights – December 2013
There's no such thing as a silent night Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Music
The Albums of 2013 (#9): Future of the Left – How to Stop Your Brain in an Accident (Prescriptions)
The end of a short tour is a mixed blessing; or, as Andrew Falkous puts it, “very sweet but kind of fruity”. It’s saying goodbye to weeks o... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
MusicThe Albums of 2013 (#10): Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels (Fool's Gold / Big Dada)
Swimming against the ego-obsessed current of mainstream hip-hop with scientific lyrical beatdowns and heavy electronic boom-bap beats, Killer Mike and El-P delivered this year's finest rap album as Run The Jewels Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Art
Louise Bourgeois @ Fruitmarket, until 23 Feb
220 framed paper-works hang side by side on the ground floor of the Fruitmarket. This intense collection from Louise Bourgeois’ Insomnia Drawings forms... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Music
Daughn Gibson @ East Village Arts Club, Liverpool, 24 November
“Tonight seems like a good night for us to just fuck around; that’s alright with you guys, right?” asks Daughn Gibson with the rhetorical a... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Books
Join the Army by Darren Cullen
Join the Army has the capacity to offend a lot of people. A pull-out concertina-style jumble of adverts and comics, parodying recruitment materials of the ar... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Music
Scottish Gig Highlights – December 2013
December's live highlights include retro rockers Rocket From The Crypt, industrial disco trio Factory Floor, the return of Pop Will Eat Itself, and a Hogmanay extravaganza with Pet Shop Boys, Django Django and CHVRCHES Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – December 2013
This month's gigs are front-loaded to make way for our annual shindig to celebrate the birth of Santa, but there are still plenty of must-go shows, from Yo La Tengo to Factory Floor via Everything Everything Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
FilmFresh Meat: Rough Cut Set Visit
In a forest in the Lake District a giant lactating worm has enslaved a town and is eating hitchhiking teenagers. Trickster Jamie Shovlin lets us see behind the scenes of his latest meta mind-fuck Rough Cut, a documentary about a film that never was Read more »| 03 Dec 2013