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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ArtAL and AL at HOME
Ahead of their new solo exhibition at HOME we talk to artists AL and AL about everything from Francis Crick's panspermia theory (us neither) to an Alan Turing dreamscape populated by anorexic Terminators (that's more like it) Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
MusicLake Street Dive – Side Pony
As comfortable playing the heartbroken as the heartbreaker, Lake Street Dive singer Rachael Price, with gospel pipes and an old-school jazz sensibility, mana... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
ClubsNorthwest Clubbing Highlights – February 2016
A full calendar this month as your lifeless post-New Year's corpse starts to request some much-needed animation Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Theatre
Kate Bornstein at Queer Contact
As Queer Contact gears up to deliver its eighth annual festival celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender arts and culture in Greater Manchester, we catch up with gender outlaw and festival performer Kate Bornstein Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Clubs
Scottish Clubbing Highlights – February 2016
February's clubbing schedule boasts the likes of Carl Craig, DMX Krew and The Black Madonna. Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
MusicHoly Esque – At Hope’s Ravine
They’ve kept us waiting, but it's been worth it. At Hope’s Ravine is an assured jolt of broad-canvas, nouveau-post-punk pristineness: part-T... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016
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Clubs
DJ Chart: Big Miz
Following the release of the blinding Safari Park Nonsense EP, Offbeat's Chris McFarlane aka Big Miz gives us a peek inside his record bag. Earning early ac... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Music
Cavern of Anti-Matter – Void Beats/Invocation Trex
It’s been seven long years since Marxist ambient-boogie machine Stereolab decided to go on an indefinite hiatus, leaving a small army of vinyl junkies ... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Music
Universal Thee – All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
If it’s become a cliché that Scotland – a dreich outcrop sitting atop Western Europe like a soggy top hat – understands the virtues ... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Music
Animal Collective – Painting With
The Baltimore avant-garde return with their most focused LP in years Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Clubs
The quiet world of Moomin
Moomin releases his long-awaited second album, A Minor Thought, this month – nets at the ready It feels wrong to big up Sebastian Genz too much. Here'... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Art
Scottish Art News: February 2016
This month sees a large multidisciplinary show on concrete and Scottish architecture in Dundee Contemporary Arts, a huge student arts festival in Edinburgh (ESAF) and new exhibits from Ingleby, Collective, Transmission and more. Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Music
Teen – Love Yes
Its sharp pop sensibilities could fool you into thinking it's not quite as weird as it is, but don’t be tricked: Love Yes is away with the fairie... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Music
Lily & Madeleine – Keep It Together
Lily & Madeleine sang 'complacency is the currency/good enough is enough for me' on their 2014 release Fumes. And while their output at such a young age ... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Music
Sarah Neufeld – The Ridge
Sarah Neufeld’s previous outing, Never Were The Way She Was, provided a fascinating conversation between the fluid majesty of her violin and the virtuo... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016