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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ClubsSkinned #2: Garth Be [Sweet Sticky]
Manchester's own Garth Be has been good enough to serve up the second course of our Skinned series, a rangy platter featuring the sounds of New World Aquarium, Funkinevil and Drexciya Read more »| 04 Jul 2014 -
ArtThe Skinny Showcase: Jade Collin
The Skinny Showcase: Jade Collin Jade studied Theatre and Performance Design at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, before completing her degree in Fin... Read more »| 04 Jul 2014 -
ArtEdinburgh College: Let's Glow
Running through May and June in venues across Edinburgh, the Let’s Glow festival celebrates the creative students of Edinburgh College (the colleges fo... Read more »| 04 Jul 2014 -
Art
Liverpool Biennial 2014: The Best of the Rest
Jellyfish living in a Toxteth shop window, digital botanics at Metal, scrambled eggs at Cactus Gallery and musical roller-blading at The Royal Standard; we get you up to speed on the best of the exhibitions outside of the main Biennial programme Read more »| 04 Jul 2014 -
Art
Barnaby Barford: Broken China Dolls
Showing in Dovercot this month, artist Barnaby Barford sculpts onto porcelain figurines to tell bittersweet tales of the modern world Read more »| 04 Jul 2014 -
TheatreNational Theatre of Scotland: Black Watch @ SECC, 28 March - 13 April
"If he wants to know what it's like in Iraq, Cammy, he has to feel some fucking pain!" A man in military dress is bent over a young man, trying to break his ... Read more »| 04 Jul 2014
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Comedy
The Little Theatre That Could
Placed just 17 miles from Manchester and 30 from Liverpool, Chorley Little Theatre – under the direction of Ian Robinson – is giving the big boys a run for their money. Catch a number of Edinburgh previews in the Lancashire picturehouse this month Read more »| 04 Jul 2014 -
Film
Boyhood
In Boyhood, Richard Linklater follows the same actors over 12 years, as they age with their characters. Ellar Coltrane plays Mason Jr, a six-year-old bo... Read more »| 04 Jul 2014 -
Theatre
Programming the Future: Hope Street's Emerging Artists
An immersive show at the Bluecoat, a carnivalesque performance at Everton Park and an adventure game? All in a season's work for Hope Street's Emerging Artists Programme. Laura Cockett and John Leyland discuss the impressive initiative Read more »| 04 Jul 2014 -
Music
Time Bandits: Remember Remember on Forgetting The Present
As time and geography conspire against them, Rock Action sextet Remember Remember pull off an unlikely victory for grandiosity Read more »| 03 Jul 2014 -
Comedy
Spotlight: David Stanier
Vikings, crisps, and mountain gorillas Read more »| 03 Jul 2014 -
Clubs
Edinburgh clubbing extravaganza Nightvision announces first acts
Wide-ranging new club series will bring a selection of top acts to some of the city’s best-loved venues Read more »| 02 Jul 2014 -
Theatre
Lord of the Flies @ The Lowry Studio, Salford, 9-12 Jul
A group of schoolboys, evacuated from their homes for safety, find themselves stranded and alone on a tropical island in the dramatic opening of William Gold... Read more »| 02 Jul 2014 -
Clubs
Half Of Where They Lived: Glitterbug Interviewed
Childhood experiences have left German producer Till Rohmann married to his mortality – new record Dust draws inspiration from his labelmate Gold Panda to take it further Read more »| 02 Jul 2014 -
Film
Scotland Film Event Highlights – July 2014
This month in film there's a tribute to Chaplin, the return of the Found Footage Festival and exploitation classic From Dusk till Dawn is back on the big screen Read more »| 02 Jul 2014