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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ComedyTom Little: Comedy Spotlight
Sharing a Wikipedia page with Johnny Vegas and with a bottle of Prosecco to prove it, it's the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year, everyone Read more »| 09 Apr 2015 -
MusicFrom Here To Infinity: Gnod Interviewed
Killing off psych rock, Gnod have returned with their boldest statement to date. The Skinny taps into the infinity machine Read more »| 09 Apr 2015 -
FilmSchool Daze: Carol Morley on The Falling
A fainting epidemic befalls a strict girls' school in 60s Britain in The Falling. Director Carol Morley invites you into this balmy world of teenage secrets and mass hysteria Read more »| 09 Apr 2015 -
ArtPenomania: A guide to pens
One graphic designer geeks out about classic pens. Welcome to The Skinny guide to writing implements Read more »| 08 Apr 2015 -
Books
Detroit '67 by Stuart Cosgrove
Stuart Cosgrove's immaculately researched account of a year in the life of the Motor City manages a delicate balancing act. While his love for the ... Read more »| 07 Apr 2015 -
Comedy
Found Footage Festival: The videos they wish they'd discovered
As the mighty Found Footage Festival returns to the UK with a selection of weird and wonderful VHS tapes, festival founder Nick Prueher laments some of the videos they wish they'd discovered Read more »| 07 Apr 2015
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Music
Courtney Barnett @ Gorilla, 3 April
“We had the best meal of the tour so far.” That nugget of between-song stage chatter isn’t the only way in which Courtney Barnett flag... Read more »| 07 Apr 2015 -
Music
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress
"And what are you going to sing for us, Nathan?" "I'm going to sing Piss Crowns Are Trebled by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Simon." "Excellent. Well best of ... Read more »| 07 Apr 2015 -
Music
The Cathode Ray – Infinite Variety
OK, ‘infinite variety’ might be stretching things a little. Still, there’s plenty to digest on this Edinburgh quartet’s second album,... Read more »| 07 Apr 2015 -
Theatre
Access All Areas: Graeae Theatre
Champions of accessibility within the arts, Graeae Theatre Company make their way to Liverpool's Everyman Read more »| 07 Apr 2015 -
Theatre
Reshaping the Octagon
Young, talented and ambitious, the recently appointed artistic director of the Bolton Octagon, Elizabeth Newman, discusses her plans to revitalise the town's theatre scene Read more »| 07 Apr 2015 -
Theatre
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
If art, by its very nature, is political, then Mark Thomson’s revival of Bertolt Brecht’s 1944 parable for the ages, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, ... Read more »| 07 Apr 2015 -
Theatre
The Fair Intellectual Club
The Fair Intellectual Club, directed for Stellar Quines by Marilyn Imrie, is a force of strong females, both in and out of the production. The first play pen... Read more »| 07 Apr 2015 -
Theatre
Rebecca @ The Lowry, Salford
If you were fortunate enough to catch Dead Dog in a Suitcase last year, you will be familiar with the work of Cornish storytellers Kneehigh. Missed out? It i... Read more »| 07 Apr 2015 -
Art
Leopards, Grids and Hannibal Lecter: This Week in Scottish Art
Big cat sightings inspire a new show at David Dale, a host of exhibitions come to a close in Dundee, and there's a talk from a BP Portrait Award judge; all that and more in this week's art round-up. Read more »| 07 Apr 2015