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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MusicReasons to be Cheerful: Liverpool and Arts Spaces
Eight months on from the final show at the Kazimier, another Liverpool theatre closes. With the city's independent venues and arts spaces repeatedly coming under threat, we look at the full story, and find plenty of reasons for optimism Read more »| 05 Aug 2016 -
BooksThe Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss
'If I had dared, I would have reached out to put my arm around my sad, cold daughter.' At the core of Moss’s fifth novel is a parent-child relationship... Read more »| 04 Aug 2016 -
ClubsClub nights in Leeds this week: 6-11 Aug
In your dancing diary for the weekend: Yousef makes a much-anticipated return to Leeds while a brand new free party at The Old Red Bus Station looks intriguing. Read more »| 04 Aug 2016 -
Clubs
Club nights in Liverpool this week: 6-11 Aug
There's only one place to be this weekend, and that's at a 17-hour party. Specific, we know. But there's also an apocalypse-themed sports day to look forward to... Read more »| 04 Aug 2016 -
Clubs
Club nights in Manchester this week: 5-11 Aug
Lots to choose from this weekend, including a new party at Soup as Reform Radio's Body to Move show gets a live outing, and a first cuddle-up at the Whiskey Jar for the Can You Dig It? crew, who get heavy with Deep Space Orchestra. Read more »| 04 Aug 2016 -
ComedyGlasgow collective CHUNKS crash into the Fringe
The performers behind one of the best regular comedy nights in Glasgow are staging a take-over of the Edinburgh Fringe. We ask the CHUNKS collective to plan an approved itinerary of their affiliated shows – and what they'd say about each other Read more »| 04 Aug 2016
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Music
Ex-Easter Island Head: A Guide to Minimalism
The experimental Liverpool trio talk us through the pieces that informed their idiosyncratic output, from Steve Reich to Colin Stetson Read more »| 04 Aug 2016 -
Music
Bob Moses – Days Gone By (Never Enough Edition)
When NY house twosome Bob Moses originally dropped Days Gone By late 2015, heads were turned. It was clear its constituent musicians – Canadian-born To... Read more »| 04 Aug 2016 -
Comedy
Knightmare Live's Paul Flannery on RPG Shows
Paul Flannery is the retro-genius who brought 80s hit show Knightmare back as a Fringe experience; this year he's also rolling The M.M.O.R.P.G. Show into the Counting House Read more »| 04 Aug 2016 -
Music
Blossoms – Blossoms
Stockport quintet Blossoms have been making all the right moves ahead of their debut release, cropping up on a number of 'bands to watch' lists whilst amassi... Read more »| 04 Aug 2016 -
Film
Sing Street
Once director John Carney hits it out of the park again with his winning indie musical formula, this time applying it to an 80s coming-of-age story John Car... Read more »| 04 Aug 2016 -
Music
Mercury Prize 2016: Shortlist announced
The twelve-act shortlist for this year's Hyundai Mercury Prize has been announced this morning. Read more »| 04 Aug 2016 -
Theatre
Ask Auntie Trash: Stop the World, I Wanna Get Off
Our cultural agony aunt responds to a reader keen to "make the world less shit" following a string of tragedies and disasters around the world. Read more »| 04 Aug 2016 -
Film
Wiener-Dog
Todd Solondz's most moving work to date Read more »| 04 Aug 2016 -
MusicLive music in Manchester this week: 3-9 Aug
August may be renowned as one of the gigging circuit's quieter months, but this week in Manchester you can sink your teeth into False Advertising, Virginia Wing, Kanda Bongo Man and many more. Not bad, eh? Read more »| 03 Aug 2016