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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FilmSPACE Jam: Video Jam spreads its wings with the SPACES tour
In November, kickass Manchester audio-visual night Video Jam takes to the road, bringing its unique brand of film and live music collaboration to Leeds, London and Liverpool. Video Jam co-curator Shereen Perera tells us where it all began Read more »| 03 Nov 2014 -
ArtConflict and Collisions: New Contemporary Sculpture @ The Hepworth, Wakefield
A large leather phallic torpedo-like object hangs in the centre of the Hepworth Gallery. The all-consuming matte black colour is both dead and alive. I don&r... Read more »| 03 Nov 2014 -
Music"Anything to get away from the Conservatives. Anything" – An interview with Sleaford Mods
Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods is not afraid to call things as he sees them. In an agreeably frank interview, the lyricist calls out the lunacy of UKIP voters, the lack of political opposition and "embarrassing" 60s throwbacks like Jake Bugg Read more »| 03 Nov 2014 -
MusicHero Worship: Thurston Moore on Tom Raworth
Thurston Moore pays homage to a prolific English poet who bridged the void between the punk and hippy Read more »| 03 Nov 2014 -
Music
The Possibility of an Island: Words with Deerhoof
With the imminent release of thirteenth album La Isla Bonita, Deerhoof's Greg Saunier explains why they've found latter-day inspiration in 80s pop queens Read more »| 03 Nov 2014 -
Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – November 2014
Brainfood is plentiful in a month that takes in Philip Glass, John Grant with the Northern Sinfonia, and merchants of darkness Vessel, Tim Hecker and Ben Frost – while Ballet School and HAJAmadagascar bring the pop nous Read more »| 03 Nov 2014
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Music
65daysofstatic performing The Fall of Math, Manchester Cathedral, 29 October
Joe Shrewsbury stalks the stage, gripping his guitar in combative fashion, a stance chiming with the defensive ruminations he adopts when discussing tonight&... Read more »| 03 Nov 2014 -
Film
Scotland Film Event Highlights – November 2014
This month's highlights include women in sci-fi, a new pop-up cinema and a season focussed on the Big Apple Read more »| 03 Nov 2014 -
Art
Men Who Like Women Who Smell of Their Jobs @ John Rylands Library, Manchester
Spread across two corners of the John Rylands Library, and as abbreviated as the micro fiction that it celebrates, Men Who Like Women Who Smell of Their... Read more »| 03 Nov 2014 -
Books
By Night the Mountain Burns by Juan Tomas Ávila Laurel
This reads a bit like a short story cycle. An episode swells and lapses, another swells in turn. By Night the Mountain Burns is told orally, through some lit... Read more »| 31 Oct 2014 -
BooksPerfidia by James Ellroy
Corruption, racism, murder, misogyny: Perfidia is a 700 page thrasher of a novel, delivered in Ellroy’s feverish staccato sentences and telegrammatic s... Read more »| 31 Oct 2014 -
Clubs
Northwest Clubbing Highlights – November 2014
Bonfire season is upon us! Here’s a smorgasbord of nights that you’ll probably struggle to remember, remember Read more »| 31 Oct 2014 -
Music
Helmet @ The Cathouse, Glasgow, 29 October
Since an eleventh hour power cut delayed our chances of seeing Helmet’s '92 breakthrough Meantime brought to life in all its aggressive glory the last ... Read more »| 31 Oct 2014 -
Music
Love Among the Ruins: The Knife on pop, performance and queering the norm
Ahead of The Knife's latest and perhaps last ever tour (which takes in The Warehouse Project on 5 Nov), the Swedish siblings talk to us about their roots, Shaking the Habitual, and what it means to be a socially conscious pop band in the 21st century Read more »| 31 Oct 2014 -
Music
Piss Vortex – Piss Vortex
Rock journo problems: sometimes the adjectives you planned to use to review a metal band are already laid out perfectly neatly in the press release. Brutal? ... Read more »| 31 Oct 2014