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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TheatreAnd Then He Ate Me @ Traverse
Strange, fantastical and dark, And Then He Ate Me is a fairytale for the stage that bites back. Created by the award-winning French company Velo Theatre, thi... Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
Theatre
Dance of The Magnetic Ballerina @ Traverse
From an achromatic gloom, the figure of Andrea Miltnerova materialises, on a contained platform adrift in the middle of the enormous Traverse One stage. Evok... Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
Music
FutureEverything: LoneLady @ Soup Kitchen, Manchester, 26 February
FutureEverything sure has a knack for picking the right venues. On the first night of this year’s edition of the city’s premier tech festival, th... Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
Theatre
Anna Karenina @ Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
The Royal Exchange kicks off its 2015 season with a brand new adaptation of Anna Karenina. After rave reviews and record sales for Maxine Peake's Hamlet... Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
Clubs
DJ Chart: Samuel Deep
Sylvestro, maker of hard-hitting house via garage and grime and founder of Utrecht-based SlapFunk Records, gives us ten of his current favourites Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
FilmLife of Riley
Alain Resnais’ final film, Life of Riley, premiered just three weeks before the director’s passing. An adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn's play o... Read more »| 06 Mar 2015
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ClubsMr Tophat & Art Alfie Music Playlist: Guest Selector
The Karlovak duo go halves on eight choice LPs ahead of the ninth instalment in their mesmerising KVK series Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
Comedy
Susan Calman: Lady Like
Coming to see a comedian close to their home turf means you may be privy to any number of DVD extras that won’t come out at any other point during the ... Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
Books
Creature Creators: The Critter Shed publish their first comic
The founders of The Critter Shed publishing collective explain why they decided to put out their first comic Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
Comedy
Sam & Tom: Comedy Spotlight
Crashing kids' parties and willing to face a folkloric cannibal half-beast in battle, Sam & Tom are the most eager new beavers on the scene Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
Books
Northwest Book Highlights – March 2015
The beginning of spring brings some anarchic spoken word, an interactive storytelling experience and the return of a great novelist Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
Books
Utopian Thinking: News from Nowhere on the Power of Literature
As the general election approaches, it will be impossible to avoid the ambush of political soundbites and slogans. The Skinny talks to radical bookshop News from Nowhere about the link between politics and language – and the fate of independent bookstores Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
Music
Going the Distance: Sacred Paws on their Rock Action debut
Rock Action signings Sacred Paws got together when former Golden Grrrls Rachel Aggs and Eilidh Rodgers wanted an excuse to continue hanging out. Can their occasional meet-ups support a proper band? There's the small matter of geography to overcome first Read more »| 05 Mar 2015 -
Music
Trouble and Strife: WIFE interviewed
Under the moniker WIFE, James Kelly released one of last year's most overlooked records. We caught up with the Cork native backstage in France to discuss his background in black metal, the need to keep progressing and his new home in LA Read more »| 05 Mar 2015 -
Clubs
Scottish Clubbing Highlights – March 2015
March's clubbing calendar puts the spring in our step courtesy of Sunil Sharpe, Anthony Naples and Roni Size Read more »| 05 Mar 2015