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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BooksNorthwest Book Highlights – April 2015
A brand new poetry series launches in Liverpool this month, while non fiction and spoken word nights continue to thrive in Manchester Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
MusicSleater-Kinney @ Manchester Albert Hall, 24 March
This most potent of returns finally reaches the UK and manifests itself in a performance of extreme emotion: an experience that leaves both band and aud... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Art
In-situ in Pendle: When Will We Three...
As six new artists are announced for Pendle's in-situ residency, The Skinny travels to Brierfield to catch up with the founders and find out what's next for the organisation Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
ClubsNorthwest Clubbing Highlights – April 2015
Balearic boat parties, plus visits from NTS residents and some techno heavyweights attempt to bring that speck of summer on the horizon a little closer Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Film
What We Do in the Shadows
A documentary crew follows the lives of four vampires living in a Wellington suburb. The key word here is ‘vampires’. Exchange it for ‘midw... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Music
Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
If 2010’s The Age Of Adz was Sufjan Stevens' bombastic all-action space opera, then Carrie & Lowell is his intimate, stripped-back, soul-barin... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015
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ArtRad Tunes, Pagan Mythology, and Science: This Week in Scottish Art
Starting this week in Glasgow, 1 Royal Terrace have launched their second programme of exhibitions, which curators Ruth Switalski and Peter Yxell have titled... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
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Young Fathers – White Men Are Black Men Too
Young Fathers' White Men Are Black Men Too is a gargantuan, fearless record. It’s a celebration, a rebuttal, a call to action; a dance party that won&r... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
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Villagers – Darling Arithmetic
Even the briefest scan of Conor O’Brien’s upcoming tour schedule screams – sorry, whispers – ‘intimate venues’ and sure e... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
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Toro Y Moi – What For?
Is Chazwick Bundick – aka Toro Y Moi – going back in time? His 2010 debut Causers of the This, a key milestone in the risibly-named &ls... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Film
Wooden Crosses (Les croix de bois)
Countless films declare ‘war is hell’, but few do so with as much bitter veracity as Wooden Crosses. Adapted from Roland Dorgelès’ a... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Music
Nadine Shah – Fast Food
Nadine Shah's follow up to 2013's Love Your Dum and Mad (applause for the title alone) confirms a vision that her debut could only hint at. That opening shot... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Film
Masculinity in Crisis: Ruben Östlund on Force Majeure
A perfect bourgeois family is rocked to its core in relationship-in-crisis drama Force Majeure. Director Ruben Östlund describes how his pin-sharp black comedy dissects perceptions of masculinity with laser-like precision Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Music
Garden Of Elks – A Distorted Sigh
‘Thrash-pop,’ they call it, although Scotland’s Garden Of Elks favour something a little more subtle than Kerry King-style shredding. Drawi... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
FilmScotland Film Event Highlights – April 2015
Things get political this month, with Filmhouse, CCA offering interesting cinematic takes on the Iraq war and its aftermath. There's also the return of Dead by Dawn and Harrison Ford is back hunting Replicants in Blade Runner: The Final Cut Read more »| 30 Mar 2015