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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ClubsClub nights in Manchester this week: 11-18 May
The city's best rave spaces get a proper going-over this week, with Milan's Lorenzo Senni dropping in to The White Hotel and Mumdance and Roman Flügel both playing all-night sets at Hidden Read more »| 11 May 2017 -
MusicThe National announce new album and world tour
The National are back with new music and a world tour taking in two nights at Edinburgh's Usher Hall and Manchester's Apollo Read more »| 11 May 2017 -
FilmThom Yorke to score Suspiria remake
The Radiohead frontman will make his first foray into film score composition with the remake of Dario Argento’s cult horror Suspiria We were excited t... Read more »| 11 May 2017 -
Music
Live music in Manchester this week: 10-16 May
Manchester's own W.H. Lung launch their debut 10" single, the Godfather of Funk returns to town and more... Read more »| 10 May 2017 -
Music
Mica Millar – My Lover (The Heal Remix): Video Premiere
Watch the new video for My Lover (The Heal Remix) by Mica Millar Read more »| 10 May 2017 -
Clubs
Scottish Clubbing Highlights: 10-16 May
The best of Scotland's club picks this week, featuring Helena Hauff at The Berkeley Suite, Chaos In The CBD at Cabaret Voltaire, a General Ludd-led fundraiser at The Reading Rooms, plus plenty more parties to choose from Read more »| 10 May 2017
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Music
25 Years of Electric Honey
Electric Honey is the Glasgow-based independent record label that first signed the likes of Belle and Sebastian, Snow Patrol and Biffy Clyro. Not bad for a company that's run as a project by a class of music management students. How do they do it? Read more »| 10 May 2017 -
Music
Girlpool – Powerplant
“As a society I feel that we perceive softness and vulnerability as traits that are ‘weak’, and people emotionally disconnect themselves in... Read more »| 10 May 2017 -
Music
Tree Trunks – You Say (Video Premiere)
Watch the new video for You Say by Tree Trunks Read more »| 10 May 2017 -
Music
Trof NQ announce 10th birthday party plans
The team at ace Thomas Street hangout Trof NQ are planning some epic May Bank Holiday celebrations to mark the venue's first decade Read more »| 10 May 2017 -
Film
Alien: Covenant
Ridley Scott takes the Alien franchise back to its roots with horror thrill-ride Alien: Covenant Critic David Thomson once described Alien, Ridley Scott&rsq... Read more »| 10 May 2017 -
Books
Dark Fantasy: Ever Dundas on debut novel Goblin
Goblin, the debut novel from Ever Dundas, blurs the lines between fantasy and reality but also between genders, questioning the roles imposed upon us from bi... Read more »| 10 May 2017 -
MusicBMX Bandits Forever: Duglas T Stewart interview
The Belshill indie-pop icons are back with their tenth full-length – frontman Duglas T Stewart talks us through it Read more »| 10 May 2017 -
Theatre
Void @ Dance International Glasgow
Running skittishly through the concrete milieu that is Glasgow’s Southside (because you stayed too long at the previous performance’s post-show c... Read more »| 10 May 2017 -
Music
Her's' favourite pop duos
Liverpool dreampop duo Her's are causing quite a stir – here are five of the musical pairings that have inspired them Santo & Johnny Brooklyn... Read more »| 10 May 2017