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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MusicGoat / The Lay Llamas / Trembling Bells @ SWG3, 28 September
“Psych” comes in many flavours tonight, with each act on the bill proffering a different strain of heady experimentation. We begin with the medie... Read more »| 07 Oct 2014 -
MusicIn June: Ryan Kennedy introduces Horsebeach
Arriving seemingly from nowhere, then selling out the first pressing of his LP, Horsebeach is the project of one Ryan Kennedy, combining a sunny stateside lilt with a moodier Mancunian worldview to attractive effect. He tells the story of his debut record Read more »| 07 Oct 2014 -
Music
J Mascis announces January 2015 UK tour
Dinosaur Jr frontman J Mascis is set to return to the UK for a series of gigs in January 2015. Mascis plays The Ruby Lounge in Manchester on 10 Jan and The ... Read more »| 07 Oct 2014 -
Music
AC/DC unveil ‘Rock or Bust’ tracklist, artwork and lead single
Australian rock legends AC/DC have revealed the tracklist for new LP Rock or Bust, their first studio album in six years. The rockers – who last appea... Read more »| 07 Oct 2014 -
MusicBell Gardens – Slow Dawns For Lost Conclusions
Following 2007’s minimalist monument And Their Refinement of the Decline, ambient-drone duo Stars of the Lid parted company and formed new musical pair... Read more »| 07 Oct 2014 -
Books
Cast Aside: John Updike's posthumous reputation
As John Updike biographer Adam Begley appears at Manchester Literature Festival this month, we consider the posthumous reputation of one of America's best-known writers. It's arguably never been at a lower ebb, but should this be so? Read more »| 07 Oct 2014
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Books
True Blood: Author’s Fans Bite Back
In what is for her a post-Sookie Stackhouse era, author Charlaine Harris looks past crazed fans and forward to her ongoing Midnight Texas series of novels and the resurrection of Aurora Teagarden for a major new TV series Read more »| 06 Oct 2014 -
FilmTwin Peaks to return to TV screens in 2016
David Lynch’s dark television classic Twin Peaks is to return for a third series in 2016, 25 years after the airing of the show’s final episode. ... Read more »| 06 Oct 2014 -
Music
"This record's a statement: not to prove people wrong, but to prove people right” – The Twilight Sad reveal album four
Having stayed the course throughout a particularly harsh decade for independent rock music, James Graham and Andy MacFarlane say The Twilight Sad won't be moulded by the zeitgeist Read more »| 06 Oct 2014 -
Comedy
Spotlight: Danny Sutcliffe
Follow the yellow brick road with this Twitter-quipping, elephant-fighting comic Read more »| 06 Oct 2014 -
Clubs
DJ Chart: Andy George (Moda Black)
Increasingly hyped production and DJ duo Jaymo and Andy George hit The Arches this month. We asked for a 5 track selection to whet the appetite before the night. Read more »| 06 Oct 2014 -
Music
Everything Everything's Manchester Central Library takeover events unveiled
The first batch of events to take place during Everything Everything’s Chaos to Order residency at Manchester’s newly-refurbished Central Library... Read more »| 06 Oct 2014 -
Film
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Yann Demange’s debut feature is a blistering, disturbing portrayal of one British soldier’s attempt to get back to his Belfast barracks after bei... Read more »| 06 Oct 2014 -
Theatre
It’s Play Time @ Lantern Theatre, Liverpool, 23 Oct
Why go to see one play when you can see six in an hour? Young new writing collective Writers on the Brink present their debut show It’s Play Time at Li... Read more »| 06 Oct 2014 -
Theatre
In Good Company: 1956 Theatre
Staging both new writing and new takes on long-established texts, this 12-strong collective are about to embark on a month-long residency Read more »| 06 Oct 2014