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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FilmBAFTAs 2017: La La Land wins big, Ken Loach slams Tories
All the results from this year's BAFTA awards, including five wins for Oscars hot favourite La La Land. Read more »| 13 Feb 2017 -
MusicAnna Meredith, Happy Meals to play SxSW
An exciting line up of Scottish bands are being supported to perform at SxSW in Austin, Texas this March Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
Music
Big Thief @ Soup Kitchen, Manchester, 7 Feb
There’s a confused atmosphere in Soup Kitchen tonight. Or at least that’s how it feels: while the roomful of 20-to-50-somethings (quite reasonabl... Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
ClubsClub nights in Manchester this week: 10-17 Feb
It's Valentine's discos a-go-go in Manchester this week: choose from La Discothéque with Todd Terje at Albert Hall, a My Bloody Valentine-themed night from Remake Remodel, or HomoElectric's signature loved-up atmosphere Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
Theatre
The End of Things @ Traverse Theatre
A series of devised impressions, however cleverly wrought, do not necessarily create a cogent work. The End of Things by Company of Wolves falls prey to this... Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
Theatre
A House in Asia @ Traverse Theatre
Agrupación Señor Serrano’s A House in Asia is a unique exploration of our post 9/11 world that spins between live video simulations, proj... Read more »| 10 Feb 2017
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FilmBarry Jenkins on Moonlight
Director Barry Jenkins talks us through its inception of the gorgeous character study Moonlight Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
MusicTaupe – A Clown Drools: Video Premiere
Taupe, Newcastle’s resident chaotic punk-jazz maestros, release their second album Fill Up Your Lungs and Bellow on 24 Feb ahead of a UK tour playing d... Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
Music
Six Organs of Admittance – Burning the Threshold
One can’t keep the prodigious guitarist Ben Chasny quiet for long. Since 1998 Chasny has had a prolific output, releasing a Six Organs of Admittance re... Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
Film
Black Movies Matter: breakout black American cinema
Denzel Washington’s Oscar-nominated Fences is in cinemas, the latest in a breakout year for black American film For two years running, the Acade... Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
Music
UKAEA – Precinct's Goin Off: Track Premiere
Listen to a new track from techno producer UKAEA, taken from a new series of tape releases by Liverpool label Pale Master Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
Music
The Coral's Lee Southall unveils debut solo album
Listen to a new track from the ex-Coral guitarist Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
Film
Prevenge
Alice Lowe directs and stars in this darkly comic tale of a pregnant woman with murder on her gestating foetus’s mind Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
Music
Nadia Reid on folk, women in music & Preservation
The Skinny catch up with New Zealander Nadia Reid ahead of her UK and European tour celebrating the release of sophomore album Preservation When we catch up... Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
Music
Los Campesinos! on Sick Scenes
We speak to Los Campesinos!' Gareth David about life, the universe and everything Read more »| 09 Feb 2017