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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ComedyVictoria Wood to be celebrated with Bury statue
The late, great comedian will be honoured with a statue in her hometown of Bury Read more »| 15 May 2017 -
MusicLast Days – Seafaring
The oceans continue to be a chief source of inspiration for the Northumberland-born, Edinburgh-based composer Graham Richardson, who titled his 2006 debut Se... Read more »| 15 May 2017 -
Music
Pumarosa – The Witch
Pumarosa have a flair for the dramatic. While gothic, 4AD artists from the '80s may be the most obvious touchstones, Pumarosa imbue this icy style with a lot... Read more »| 15 May 2017 -
MusicMogwai return with new track Coolverine & new album
Mogwai's ninth studio album Every Country's Sun drops this September; listen to new track Coolverine below Recorded with Come On Die Young and Roc... Read more »| 15 May 2017 -
Art
New exhibition depicts lost Manchester and Salford
Photographs by Shirley Baker capture communities living in Manchester and Salford during the years of urban clearance Read more »| 12 May 2017 -
Music
Jamie Lenman @ King Tut's, Glasgow, 6 May
Looking back on Jamie Lenman’s winding career path it seems relevant to compare him to his old friend and collaborator Frank Turner. Both are singer-so... Read more »| 12 May 2017
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Clubs
Ten Questions for Sven Väth
Ahead of his headline show at Glasgow's Electric Frog & Pressure Riverside Festival, the great 'Papa' Sven answers ten questions about his long and remarkable career Read more »| 12 May 2017 -
Music
Flesh and Blood: Pumarosa interview
We speak to Pumarosa frontwoman Isabel Munoz-Newsome about touring, history, spirituality, and the release of their debut album, The Witch Read more »| 12 May 2017 -
Music
The Physics House Band @ Hug & Pint, Glasgow, 8 May
The Hug & Pint have thought everything through this evening – earplugs sit in a plastic pint glass where fans are stamped in as they wander downsta... Read more »| 12 May 2017 -
Film
XX and the rise of female horror filmmakers
As XX, a wry horror anthology from four women directors, comes to DVD, we look at the pleasing trend of female filmmakers putting their stamp on the horror genre Read more »| 12 May 2017 -
Film
The Levelling
Game of Thrones' Ellie Kendrick gives a star-making turn in The Levelling, the impressively assured debut film from Hope Dickson Leach Read more »| 12 May 2017 -
Music
Deftones / AFI @ SEC, Glasgow, 7 May
Despite being decades past their peak popularity, Deftones still pack a mighty punch. To those not paying attention, it may seem strange that two bands ... Read more »| 12 May 2017 -
Film
Twin Peaks: New characters seen in latest trailer
Some mysterious new characters are glimpsed in the latest Twin Peaks teaser, along with old favourites played by Kyle MacLachlan, Kimmy Robertson, the late Miguel Ferrer and series co-creator David Lynch Read more »| 12 May 2017 -
Music
Glass Vaults – The New Happy
The second album from New Zealand’s Glass Vaults is apparently recorded in a way specifically intended to induce Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, ... Read more »| 11 May 2017 -
FilmColossal
Anne Hathaway's inner demons become a very real monster in this muddled sci-fi comedy-drama from the writer-director of Timecrimes Read more »| 11 May 2017