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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ArtExplore post-Brexit Britain with project Art 50
As Article 50 is triggered, Sky Arts is launching Art 50, a new project where 50 new artworks ask what it mean to be in a post-Brexit Britain Read more »| 29 Mar 2017 -
MusicThe State Broadcasters – A Different Past
Glasgow outfit The State Broadcasters' long awaited third album sees them making a marginal break with the folk-tinged melancholia of their past releases to ... Read more »| 29 Mar 2017 -
Music
CHUMP – Lose Your Life (Track Premiere)
Beginning life as the sleepy-headed bedroom project of singer and guitarist Tara Masterson Hally, CHUMP are a sulk-core three-piece from Glasgow. Having alre... Read more »| 29 Mar 2017 -
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Live music in Manchester this week: 29 Mar-4 Apr
Whether it's Malian desert blues from Songhoy Blues, classic cosmic jazz from Sun Ra Arkestra or twee indie-pop from Swedish troubadour Jens Lekman, there's lots to get excited about this week Read more »| 29 Mar 2017 -
MusicFurther into left-field: Future Islands interview
Samuel T. Herring runs us through the Baltimore outfit's biggest statement to date Read more »| 29 Mar 2017 -
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Slowdive @ Arts Club, Liverpool, 28 Mar
These are heady times for the many ageing shoegazers who pack out the Arts Club – this is the first visit in over two decades from original scenes... Read more »| 29 Mar 2017
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MusicPWR BTTM's favourite Queer Rappers
We caught up with PWR BTTM to discuss their new album Pageant, but also got onto a sidetrack discussing their favourite queer rappers. Ben Hopkins ... Read more »| 29 Mar 2017 -
Music
Fauves @ King Tut's, Glasgow, 24 Mar
Musical acts galore are descending on Glasgow for the BBC Radio 6 Music Festival, and local outfit Fauves get the weekend off to an auspicious start. The Gla... Read more »| 29 Mar 2017 -
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The Jesus and Mary Chain @ Manchester Academy, 25 Mar
When the aliens inevitably arrive, some things will take more explaining than others. Aside from Brexit, unfrosted Pop Tarts, gender roles and the seemingly ... Read more »| 29 Mar 2017 -
Film
Fat City
John Huston scored a late-career knockout with this bruising and deeply felt study of an ageing boxer stumbling from the ring to the bar Read more »| 29 Mar 2017 -
Music
PWR BTTM on new album Pageant
PWR BTTM tell us about rediscovering themselves on new album Pageant, being born performers and how Lady Marmalade changed their lives It's only been a matt... Read more »| 29 Mar 2017 -
Music
Live music in Liverpool this week: 29 Mar-4 Apr
Stormzy, Idles and The Drifting Classroom are among the week's gig highlights, plus Threshold Festival returns for another must-attend weekender Read more »| 29 Mar 2017 -
MusicIrvine Welsh is writing a TV show about acid house
The Trainspotting author has been chosen to pen Ibiza87, which takes as its inspiration the careers of DJs Nicky Holloway, Paul Oakenfold and Danny Rampling ... Read more »| 29 Mar 2017 -
Film
What to Watch this Week (27 Mar-2 Apr)
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including the live action Ghost in the Shell remake, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire and Rainer Werner Fassbinder masterpiece Ali: Fear Eats the Soul Read more »| 29 Mar 2017 -
Film
Casey Affleck haunts Rooney Mara in A Ghost Story
Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara reunite with their Ain’t Them Bodies Saints director for this intriguing-looking indie ghost story Read more »| 29 Mar 2017