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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TheatreEarly Days (of a better nation) @ Unity Theatre Liverpool
The war is over and the nation lies in ruins. You and your fellow survivors must build the beginnings of a new country. What are the rules you’re going... Read more »| 20 Apr 2015 -
FilmThe Salvation
As ever, Mads Mikkelsen dominates in writer-director Kristian Levring’s classy, if brutal, western. It’s another effortlessly charismatic perform... Read more »| 17 Apr 2015 -
Film
Child 44
A whole heap of classy star power can’t save Daniel Espinosa’s adaptation of Tim Rob Smith’s popular novel, the cast instead flailing about... Read more »| 17 Apr 2015 -
ClubsSkinned #8: Luv*Jam
In the latest of our Skinned DJ mixes, purveyor of British folklore Luv*Jam sculls through the tropics into more scintillating fare over the course of two splendid hours Read more »| 17 Apr 2015 -
Art
Lights, Late Nights and Life through a Lens: This Month in Northwest Art
As the cities come to life under cover of dark for LightNight and Manchester After Hours, and LOOK/15 photo festival takes over Liverpool, plan your month in art with our pick of the best exhibitions and events Read more »| 17 Apr 2015 -
Music
Blur – The Magic Whip
Whither now the Britpop refugee? It’s been eleven years and at least two reconciliations since Blur last released a record. In a world where ‘90s... Read more »| 17 Apr 2015
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Film
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
Following Songs from the Second Floor and You, the Living, Swedish auteur Roy Andersson here concludes his absurdist trilogy of human nature. It’s an i... Read more »| 17 Apr 2015 -
Music
The Lovely Eggs – This Is Our Nowhere
Lancaster’s finest return with a fourth album of schizoid odd-pop – the titular ‘nowhere’ presumably referring to the small town they... Read more »| 17 Apr 2015 -
Music
Kill the Waves – The One That Could Have Been
Kill the Waves appear as though in the midst of an identity crisis on their debut album. The Glasgow six-piece ooze potential but could do with making t... Read more »| 17 Apr 2015 -
Music
Howling – Sacred Ground
Combining sultry vocals and acoustic instrumentation with ethereal synth figures and cold deep house beats, the debut full-length from Howling (the joint pro... Read more »| 16 Apr 2015 -
Film
The Offence
Over a career spanning five decades, Sidney Lumet specialised in taut, claustrophobic human dramas. But while the director's early works such as 12 Angry Men... Read more »| 16 Apr 2015 -
Books
Inner City Rhythm: George the Poet spits words at Aye Write!
This weekend a 24-year-old with both a raw and refined way with words takes to the stage at Aye Write! We talk politics and poetry with BRITs 2015 Critics' Choice Award nominee George the Poet Read more »| 16 Apr 2015 -
MusicThe Bug vs Dylan Carlson's Earth to make live debut at Supersonic Festival
Birmingham's Supersonic Festival has today announced plans to host the debut live performance between two uncompromising and quite naturally aligned masters ... Read more »| 15 Apr 2015 -
Music
White Arrows – In Bardo
White Arrows’ sophomore album is the result of slowing down, having a think, and coming back fighting. After 2012 debut Dry Land Is Not a Myth, the ban... Read more »| 15 Apr 2015 -
Music
Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld – Never Were the Way She Was
Saxophonist Colin Stetson and violinist Sarah Neufeld, known as much for their prolific collaborations (see: Tom Waits, Bon Iver, Arcade Fire) as their solo ... Read more »| 15 Apr 2015