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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BooksKeith Hutson on debut poetry collection Routines
Our poetry columnist begins 2017 by speaking with emerging poet Keith Hutson about his debut collection of 31 sonnets, Routines, writing habits, influences and resolutions for the new year Read more »| 06 Jan 2017 -
BooksAmy Stewart on her Kopp Sisters novels
Lady Cop Makes Trouble picks up the story of the three Kopp sisters after their debut in Girl Waits With Gun. Amy Stewart talks about filling the holes in fa... Read more »| 06 Jan 2017 -
Music
Irma Vep – No Handshake Blues
In Olivier Assayas's 1996 film-within-a-film Irma Vep, the Hong Kong actor Maggie Cheung inhabits its dream-like narrative as if newly arrived from another p... Read more »| 06 Jan 2017 -
MusicSOHN on new album Rennen
We catch up with recent dad and nomadic songmaker SOHN to discuss his sophomore album Rennen, working solo, and how 2016 was a pretty shit year Read more »| 06 Jan 2017 -
Theatre
Ask Auntie Trash: New Year, New You?
Hello Trash, With a New Year beginning, I’ve been thinking about starting afresh and making some positive changes in my life. I want to lose weig... Read more »| 06 Jan 2017 -
ComedyCrystal Baws: January 2017 Horoscopes
Our resident futurologist Mystic Mark returns with his first predictions of 2017 Read more »| 06 Jan 2017
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Music
Northern Stars: 9 Bands to Watch in 2017
Wondering which hot new acts to keep an eye on over the next 12 months? We asked some trusted bands and artists in Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester to tell us their Ones to Watch... Read more »| 06 Jan 2017 -
Music
The Shins announce new album Heartworms
The Albuquerque veterans also unveil new track Name For You – watch the lyric video below Read more »| 05 Jan 2017 -
Theatre
Refugee Crisis: On the front lines in Kos
Poet Louise Wallwein recalls volunteering with Kos Solidarity in Greece, providing food, water and support for refugees – experiences which have informed a new dramatic work exploring the urgency of this global crisis Read more »| 05 Jan 2017 -
Theatre
PUSH Festival 2017: Top five picks
The five theatre shows at PUSH 2017 we're most looking forward to Read more »| 05 Jan 2017 -
Music
Julie Byrne – Not Even Happiness
"I've been called a heartbreaker, for doing justice to my own." On her second album, Byrne expands her palette and enriches her singular methodology. The set... Read more »| 05 Jan 2017 -
Music
Radiator Hospital @ Night & Day, Manchester, 3 Jan
Even at 7.30pm the dimly lit Night and Day Café is bristling with sweaty gig-goers, the likes of whom probably all recognise each other's faces f... Read more »| 05 Jan 2017 -
Music
A Winged Victory For The Sullen – Iris
The third full-length from the ambient duo is their most understated yet - almost to a fault Read more »| 05 Jan 2017 -
Books
Severance/Intercourse by Robert Olen Butler
This is a tale of two books, bound together as one. The reader need only flip and reverse to move between a collection of vignettes describing moments of int... Read more »| 05 Jan 2017 -
Film
Mark Gatiss responds to Sherlock critics in verse
The creator of the Benedict Cumberbatch-starring TV show hits back at critics of the latest episode with rhyming verse. Read more »| 05 Jan 2017