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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FilmFilm News: New Pulp documentary opens Sheffield Doc/Fest, Dundead programme revealed
The European premiere of a new documentary about Jarvis Cocker's Pulp premieres at Sheffield Doc/Fest, a look at the programme of this year's Dundead horror fest, Harrison Ford talks Blade Runner 2, plus the latest casting rumours and trailers Read more »| 14 Apr 2014 -
MusicForest Swords wins the GIT Award 2014
We report back from the ceremony and concert announcing Forest Swords as the winner of the GIT Award 2014, plus the live concert featuring performances from Ninetails, Ex-Easter Island Head and others, celebrating the musical culture of Merseyside Read more »| 14 Apr 2014 -
Film
Nymphomaniac
Lars is back to his provocative, trolling self with sex confessional Nymphomaniac. Erudite yet impotent Seligman (Skarsgård) happens upon a battered Jo... Read more »| 14 Apr 2014 -
FilmStaying Home: Joanna Hogg on Exhibition
Joanna Hogg discusses working in London and using non-professional actors to tell her unique stories before the release of her latest, Exhibition Read more »| 14 Apr 2014 -
Music
Breaking The Static: We Came Out Like Tigers Interviewed
Fiercely political and steadfast in their refusal to stand still, Liverpool's We Came Out Like Tigers are an antidote for the times Read more »| 11 Apr 2014 -
Comedy
Sketchole @ The Lowry, 6 Apr
Sketchole sets its stall out pretty early on when Gein’s Family Giftshop’s Ed Easton faced the audience sans clothes in a great sketch about sket... Read more »| 11 Apr 2014
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FilmHalf of a Yellow Sun
This plush adaptation of the Nigerian Civil War spanning, Orange Prize-winning novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie blends drama with melodrama, but unlike its ... Read more »| 11 Apr 2014 -
Film
The Quiet Ones
The first of The Quiet Ones’ many jump-scares comes courtesy of Noddy Holder, with a loud blast of Slade’s Cum on Feel the Noize in the opening m... Read more »| 11 Apr 2014 -
Film
The Raid 2
Gareth Evans’ The Raid took place over one day in a single locale; its narrative had an economy akin to old-school John Carpenter. For the sequel,... Read more »| 11 Apr 2014 -
Theatre
HOME announces site-specific theatre programme
Manchester's new creative centre for the arts, HOME, reveals the site-specific theatre programme that will run until HOME's official opening in spring 2015 Read more »| 10 Apr 2014 -
MusicTherapy? The Garage, Glasgow, 7 April
While the same old talking heads romanticise Britpop’s worst b-sides and exhaustive Nirvana nostalgia draws to its ugly conclusion as pictures of Kurt ... Read more »| 10 Apr 2014 -
Music
Chad VanGaalen – Shrink Dust
“Cut off both my hands and threw them in the sand,” sings Chad VanGaalen cheerfully, adding: “Watched them swim away from me like a pair of... Read more »| 10 Apr 2014 -
Music
Manic Street Preachers / The Twilight Sad @ Barrowlands, Glasgow, 4 April
In June, the Manics will bring their studio album tally up to an even dozen – impressive considering their one-time pledge to release a doubl... Read more »| 09 Apr 2014 -
Art
FutureEverything 2014: Tools for the Unknown Future
Knitted mince and mapping drone strikes – we take a look at the visual art on offer at Manchester's FutureEverything festival Read more »| 09 Apr 2014 -
Music
Raw Power: The Amazing Snakeheads on Amphetamine Ballads
Glasgow's The Amazing Snakeheads like to play no-frills rock and roll hard and fast, but insist they're not as intense as their stage persona suggests. We meet in a bar to talk about James Brown, finding a label and sharing a stout with Martha Reeves Read more »| 09 Apr 2014