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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MusicWhere You’re Meant To Be tour & album announced
A string of tour dates have been announced for new documentary Where You're Meant To Be, starring former Arab Strap frontman Aidan Moffat, have been announced. Read more »| 05 Feb 2016 -
Music“It’s time to plug the monster in!” Nevermen interviewed
Nearly a decade under wraps, Mike Patton, Adam Drucker and Tunde Adebimpe emerge as Nevermen this month. In their first full interview, the trio meditate on making music like tapas and driving around in a mega Godzilla. Read more »| 05 Feb 2016 -
Art
A Wonderful Travelling Show: British Art Show 8
The quinquennial British Art Show comes back for its eighth outing and this time the emphasis is on new technologies, media and the place of artist responses and craft in a newly interconnected present Read more »| 05 Feb 2016 -
ClubsSkinned #11: Jeen Bassa [22a]
The youngest of the Deenmamode bros steps up to the plate and smacks it clean from out of left field in his mix for The Skinny. Leon Thomas, The Last Poets and James Brown all make the cut... Read more »| 05 Feb 2016 -
ArtFlat Death @ Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
The sky is grey over Liverpool. On the road outside Open Eye a car drives over an already dead pigeon. His body is partially flattened but there are still st... Read more »| 05 Feb 2016 -
ArtMerlin James @ CCA
Merlin James' major career-spanning exhibition in its very form experiments with the conventions of the late stage painter, and continues to enquire into the possibilities of the medium Read more »| 05 Feb 2016
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Comedy
Crystal Baws: February 2016 Horoscopes
ARIESYour circle of friends appears to be just that; a circle of sinister hooded figures stood around you chanting ancient Satanic mantras. TAURUSPerfume ad... Read more »| 04 Feb 2016 -
Art
Get Eclectic: Converge, by Visual Arts Scotland
Visual Arts Scotland put on their annual exhibition, and look to bring together artists and designers in meaningful and challenging ways Read more »| 04 Feb 2016 -
Theatre
10 years of the National Theatre of Scotland
The Skinny and Laurie Sansom chat about trilogies, tenth birthdays and touring the world with the National Theatre of Scotland. Read more »| 04 Feb 2016 -
Music
Folk Like Us: Aidan Moffat on Where You're Meant to Be
It may have started life as a tour diary – a celebration of traditional Scottish folk music, looking for a story – but as Aidan Moffat explains, new film Where You’re Meant to Be discovers much more Read more »| 04 Feb 2016 -
Theatre
Katy Cavanagh and Colin Connor on Two 2
As Bolton Octagon theatre plays host to a double bill of Jim Cartwright's plays, we sit down with the actors, Katy Cavanagh and Colin Connor Read more »| 04 Feb 2016 -
Art
Matisse: Works to Know by Heart @ Tate Liverpool
As the physical effects of age take hold, an artist’s work must necessarily shift and change accordingly. In 1914, at the age of 72, Henri Matisse unde... Read more »| 04 Feb 2016 -
Music
Vieux Farka Touré @ Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, 29 Jan
Following in the footsteps of an iconic musical father is no easy task, as the likes of Ziggy Marley, Julian Lennon and Teddy Thompson will attest. It’... Read more »| 04 Feb 2016 -
Music
Sennen – First Light
Named after a track on Ride’s Today Forever EP, Sennen’s past is not necessarily an indicator of the present. Yes, the band’s fifth LP surf... Read more »| 04 Feb 2016 -
Music
Steve Mason – Meet The Humans
Steve Mason's third solo album under his own name finds the erstwhile Fifer embracing a folktronica style familiar from those Beta Band days. There's a move ... Read more »| 04 Feb 2016