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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ClubsJuju & Jordash Music Playlist: Under the Infuence
Gal Aner and Jordan Czamanski pit the finer nuances of their respective tastes against each other to form a titillating collage of jazz, techno, dub and krautrock Read more »| 30 Jul 2014 -
ArtReal Dreaming: Working in the Arts
In a climate of cuts, routes into the arts are varied. A writer, a creative game developer and an art researcher share their stories Read more »| 29 Jul 2014 -
ArtAndrew Gilbert @ Summerhall
Andrew Gilbert returns to the motherland for his colonial-inspired exhibition at Summerhall Gallery. Littered with trinkets from the contemporary past a... Read more »| 29 Jul 2014 -
ArtGraham Fagen: National Treasures
Showing across the country in no fewer than seven projects this summer, artist Graham Fagen talks cultural identity and breaking the rules of the gallery Read more »| 29 Jul 2014 -
ArtJessica Harrison: Feminist Figurines
Arriving in Jupiter Artland this month, in a pink plinthed and painted room, are a series of twisted ceramic ladies. Sculptor Jessica Harrison tells us about their genesis, feminism, and going viral Read more »| 29 Jul 2014 -
Film
The Deer Hunter
Long, roughly edited, and with an almost dragging realism, The Deer Hunter continues to resonate divisively since its original 1978 release. Naively heroic, ... Read more »| 29 Jul 2014
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Music
The Ramona Flowers – Dismantle and Rebuild
There’s a particular seam within the current indie strata that’s all but been mined out. The mass hunger for sweeping, fist-pumping anthemics, ho... Read more »| 29 Jul 2014 -
Film
Fresh Perspectives: Pride at the Pictures
We take a look at the pleasingly eclectic film programme at this year's Liverpool Pride festival Read more »| 29 Jul 2014 -
Music
Owl John – Owl John
The Frightened Rabbit frontman continues his adventures in songwriting with a more experimental but hugely enjoyable solo LP Read more »| 29 Jul 2014 -
Music
Soft Walls – No Time
Confession time. When Cold Pumas dropped their debut in 2012, this hack was thoroughly unimpressed. I said as much via a clumsy whine on a reputable reviews ... Read more »| 29 Jul 2014 -
Music
Adult Jazz – Gist Is
There's something reluctant about Adult Jazz's debut LP. The four-piece, Leeds Uni alumni and students of Joanna Newsom, Van Morrison and Animal Collective, ... Read more »| 29 Jul 2014 -
Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – August 2014
Get out of the sweaty sun and into the cool darkness of our best gig venues to see the likes of Action Beat, Pissed Jeans and Lower. If it’s sun you’re after though, we’re praying for plenty at our Do Not Miss event Read more »| 29 Jul 2014 -
Music
FKA Twigs – LP1
LP1. Love that. Dismissive of the po-faced, bow-down-before-me hubris displayed by most féted progeny, Tahliah Barnett opts for low key and ego-free. ... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
Music
Trans Am – Volume X
There’s a mind-blowing moment halfway through Night Shift, the third track on Trans Am’s Volume X; having shuffled gloriously through two mi... Read more »| 28 Jul 2014 -
Music
Sebastian Thomson on 20 years of Trans Am
As Trans Am notch their tenth studio album, Sebastian Thomson has an awful lot to reminisce about. He chats to The Skinny about longevity, irony and obscene strategies Read more »| 28 Jul 2014