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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MusicGreat Ytene – Locus
Don’t worry if you’re unfamiliar with Great Ytene’s previous self-titled effort, because Locus might as well be the work of a different ban... Read more »| 13 Mar 2017 -
MusicPulled Apart By Horses – The Haze
Pulled Apart By Horses’ fourth album does not mess about. It’s taken them three years, a switch of drummer (founder member Lee Vincent jumpe... Read more »| 13 Mar 2017 -
BooksPaul Auster talks death, Trump, and 4 3 2 1
The smart, urbane and insightful Paul Auster came to Manchester for the shortest Q&A in the history of literary Q&As this week. Luckily every word he said was interesting... Read more »| 13 Mar 2017 -
Music
Dams of the West – Youngish American
As if it wasn’t enough being the drummer for Vampire Weekend and creating a more-than-reputable body of work, Chris Tomson has restarted the exact same... Read more »| 13 Mar 2017 -
Music
Spoon – Hot Thoughts
Hot Thoughts is album number nine for Spoon, and their first for Matador since 1996. However, this isn't a 'back-to-basics' exercise, but a rediscovery of th... Read more »| 13 Mar 2017 -
Theatre
4point3 collective on debut show Pylon
The Skinny talks to Graeme Cameron and Paul Montgomery of 4point3collective about creating, funding and appreciating their debut production, Pylon. Read more »| 13 Mar 2017
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Music
Yossarians – Fabric of Time
'Suffer me, or suffer the consequence,' snarls Tim Schiazza during the thunderous Birthday Party-esque tumult of second track Suffer Me. For most of Fabric o... Read more »| 13 Mar 2017 -
ComedyTom Lawrinson: Comedy Spotlight
Combine this comedian's lush locks and secret political masterplan and you've got a force to be reckoned with... Read more »| 13 Mar 2017 -
Music
Glass Animals @ The Liquid Room, 9 Mar
It’s pineapples-aplenty on the second sold-out night in Edinburgh’s Liquid Rooms, with the Glass Animals' favourite prickly fruit littering the c... Read more »| 13 Mar 2017 -
Music
Real Estate – In Mind
While the wind of change may be blowing through their native East Coast, in the world of New Jerseyans Real Estate very little seems to have altered for a ba... Read more »| 13 Mar 2017 -
Music
ANOHNI – Paradise EP
After releasing one of the most overtly political albums of the year just nine months ago, it's no surprise that, with the precarious state of contemporary g... Read more »| 13 Mar 2017 -
Film
Baby Driver trailer: Ansel Elgort burns rubber
Bullets fly and tyres roar in the first trailer for Edgar Wright’s crime thriller starring Ansel Elgort Read more »| 12 Mar 2017 -
Film
Song to Song
Terrence Malick returns with another blindingly beautiful and formally distinctive piece of cinematic magic, this time set within the Austin music scene Read more »| 11 Mar 2017 -
Theatre
City of Glass @ HOME, Manchester
Paul Auster's meta-noir City of Glass is brought to the stage via the high-tech wizardry of 59 Productions. The visuals are dazzling, but the adaptation fails to capture the nightmarish dread of the cult novel Read more »| 10 Mar 2017 -
Comedy
The Comedic Benefits of Postmodern Jukebox
As Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox's European tour swings through the UK, we assess how their comedic take can refresh our appreciation of old and new tracks Read more »| 10 Mar 2017