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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FilmThe Punk Singer
Kathleen Hanna claims she started a band because no one ever listened to her. It’s safe to say that changed with Bikini Kill. The Punk Singer takes us ... Read more »| 19 May 2014 -
MusicHauschka @ The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester, 16 May
With the International Anthony Burgess Foundation intimately curtained off and laid out in the round with a piano in the centre adorned with oddities li... Read more »| 19 May 2014 -
Theatre(remor) @ St Luke's Church, Liverpool, 27-28 May
Physical Fest’s programme is predictably glimmering with theatrical treasures, and one such jewel is an 11-minute ‘locked room’ production ... Read more »| 19 May 2014 -
Music
Cloud Sounds #17: with Buzz Osborne, Liars, Black Pus, Rose Windows and more
Our Music team's weekly playlist also showcases new tracks from Slugabed, remixing a Goldie classic; metal / rap fusion from Matmos side-project The Soft Pink Truth; esoteric electronica from Nathan Fake, Fis and Slugabed, and much more Read more »| 16 May 2014 -
Music
Tuff Love – Junk EP
Johnny Lynch’s first new signings since he transplanted the bulk of the Fence roster to his new Lost Map label, Glasgow trio Tuff Love are already dab ... Read more »| 15 May 2014 -
Music
Tori Amos @ O2 Academy, 10 May
Tonight we are very much guests in Tori Amos´ house. There is a reassuring assertiveness and sense of purpose in the way the singer, now turned 50, sug... Read more »| 15 May 2014
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Music
Remember Remember preview third album, Forgetting The Present
On 30 June, Glasgow's Remember Remember return with their new album Forgetting The Present, on Mogwai's Rock Action label. Today, the band unveiled the first... Read more »| 15 May 2014 -
Music
Action Bronson @ Manchester Club Academy, 12 May
What's a great performer made of? In Action Bronson's case, a 300 pound, 5’7” stack of a man that spits words in a Queens tongue. As the show ope... Read more »| 15 May 2014 -
Music
WIFE – What's Between
Perhaps the most accessible release so far from the unimpeachable Tri-Angle label, WIFE offers up his full-length debut, a gleaming, polished collection of g... Read more »| 15 May 2014 -
Theatre
Uncle Varick on tour
Directed by Michael Emans, Rapture Theatre brings Uncle Varick to life. Set in 1960s Scotland, John Byrne’s reimagining of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya takes place in one house in the extreme north of the country Read more »| 15 May 2014 -
Film
A Touch of Sin
Three burning cigarettes are used as joss sticks by a killer in an indecorous prayer to his victims' ghosts; just one of the remarkable moments in Jia Zhangk... Read more »| 15 May 2014 -
Theatre
The Libertine @ The Citizens Theatre
Written by Stephen Jeffreys in the nineties, The Libertine follows the tale of the seducer, drinker, poet, and gentleman John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester portrayed here by Martin Hutson Read more »| 15 May 2014 -
Film
Godzilla
Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla revival is a beautifully directed, perfectly paced blockbuster that effortlessly veers between enormity and quieter, almost tr... Read more »| 14 May 2014 -
Music
Swans, Wolf Eyes, Matmos and more for Supersonic 2014
Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival occupies an exalted position at the vanguard of the festival circuit. And rightly so. Since its inception over ten yea... Read more »| 14 May 2014 -
ArtNighthawks: Manchester After Hours & NQ After Dark
As the sun sets this Thursday, Manchester's cultural spaces open their doors for a night of art, music and literature Read more »| 14 May 2014