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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ComedyFringe previews in Liverpool and Manchester: our picks
Preview season heats up in July – a cheap opportunity to take in the best of the Fringe before it's even begun. Here are our picks Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
MusicViet Cong, Josh T. Pearson and Mikal Cronin with Strings & Horns join Utrecht's Le Guess Who? 2015
Sets by Deerhunter, Faust, Destroyer and a strand curated by drone godfathers SunnO))) head up the brilliantly eclectic line-up for the four-day Le Guess Who... Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
MusicAC/DC @ Hampden Park, Glasgow, 28 June
When you’re a band that’s been around as long as AC/DC, you’re no stranger to your own strengths and weaknesses. “I hope you came for... Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: July 2015
ARIESThe US announces plans to fit the moon with a giant googly eye to prove that God exists. It is hoped that centrifugal force will allow the googly eye to... Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
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Birthdays, Catapults and Juvenile Delinquency: Scottish art news for July 2015
Throughout July, there are celebrations, openings, discussion events and a kayak filled with 200 litres of whisky Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
Music
Teen Men – Teen Men
Teen Men should be easy to write off as mere zeitgeist imitators: spikey muted guitar, afropop percussion, a lush production complete with what sounds like h... Read more »| 01 Jul 2015
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MusicRatatat – Magnifique
Magnifique, the fifth album from Brooklyn-based duo Ratatat, discontinues the naming convention set up with LP3 and LP4. But it could comfortably be called L... Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
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Liverpool John Moores Fine Art Degree Shows: Doll Glaze Gossip
Sandwiches, disembodied heads and a miniature coliseum: it’s Liverpool School of Art & Design Degree Show 2015 Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
MusicNatalie Prass @ The Deaf Institute, 25 June
The L.A. singer-songwriter brings a half-baked version of her excellent debut to Manchester Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
Music
Tame Impala – Currents
For the past few years Tame Impala, aka the one-man studio machine Keven Parker, have been steadily redefining psychedelic rock for a millennial audience. Th... Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
Film
Scotland Film Event Highlights – July 2015
This month's highlights include a celebration of Orson Welles at Filmhouse, a weekend of films featuring The Who at DCA, and a geek's paradise at Comic Con at Glasgow's CCA Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
Books
Comma Press launch new literary platform MacGuffin
Comma Press has launched MacGuffin, a new self-publishing platform for fiction, essays and poetry. The Manchester-based imprint – who specialise in sho... Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
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Manchester School of Art Degree Show: Breaking Boundaries
At this year's Manchester School of Art degree shows we found an interesting experiment in curation, with the boundaries between courses broken down Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
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OPEN 1 @ Open Eye Gallery
Open 1 marks the start of a new series of annual exhibitions that showcase work and research projects that have been submitted to Open Eye since 2013. Open E... Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
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Cannons & Kickstarters: This Week in Scottish Art
This weekend sees art parties in Dundee and Glasgow, as well as new exhibitions and one-off events at Fruitmarket, DCA, and Generator plus a trip to London for some new GSA graduates. Read more »| 30 Jun 2015