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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MusicNadia Reid on folk, women in music & Preservation
The Skinny catch up with New Zealander Nadia Reid ahead of her UK and European tour celebrating the release of sophomore album Preservation When we catch up... Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
Music
Los Campesinos! on Sick Scenes
We speak to Los Campesinos!' Gareth David about life, the universe and everything Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
Music
Meursault – I Will Kill Again
When main protagonist Neil Pennycook called time on Meursault in 2014 after three albums proper, fans hoped it wouldn't be the last they'd hear from him. Tra... Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
TheatreSanitise @ Traverse Theatre
Sanitise by Jordan & Skinner is an ably performed, neatly designed performance concerned with the need for cleanliness in one woman’s life. Charged... Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
Music
Cymbals Eat Guitars @ Electric Circus, 7 Feb
Due to an unforeseeable illness, the assembled crowd at Electric Circus are to be treated to an unexpected “solo set”. Details are scant and, as ... Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
Film
What Fifty Shades can learn from Secretary
Inspired by GFF’s screening of Steven Shainberg’s Secretary and this month’s release of the Fifty Shades sequel, we look at the lessons the modern spankbuster could learn from the 2002 cult classic. Read more »| 09 Feb 2017
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MusicClap Your Hands Say Yeah – The Tourist
Think of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and you'll likely remember their eponymous debut album from 2005, characterised by Alec Ounsworth's distinctive warble on t... Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
ClubsGlasgow Clubbing Highlights: 9-15 Feb
Minimal Wave label boss Veronica Vasicka brings the sounds of synth wave to Glasgow this weekend, plus The Poetry Club kicks off a new residency and Denis Sulta gives us a reason to hit the dancefloor on Valentine's Day Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
Clubs
Edinburgh Clubbing Highlights: 9-15 Feb
Cabaret Voltaire plays host to both Jasper James and London-based talent Route 94 this weekend, while Nightvision bring the ever-popular Eats Everything to The Liquid Room Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
Theatre
Touch Me @ Traverse Theatre
As the audience files into a packed-out auditorium in the Traverse Theatre, an abandoned duvet lies forlornly in the centre of the stage. Once everyone has t... Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
Books
StAnza 2017 preview: Strong Words, Strange Times
Our poetry columnist provides a run-down on Scotland's international poetry festival, StAnza, featuring such luminaries as Costa Prize-winner Alice Oswald, T.S Eliot prize winner Sarah Howe and our Makar Jackie Kay Read more »| 08 Feb 2017 -
Music
Dutch Uncles – Big Balloon
Dutch Uncles are an odd bunch. Like fellow Mancunians Everything Everything or American counterparts Battles, the four-piece communicate in their own hyper-c... Read more »| 08 Feb 2017 -
Music
DIY Music in Leeds: JUX Festival 2017 & more
The problem with festival line-ups, and why we need more events like Leeds’ annual JUX Read more »| 08 Feb 2017 -
Comedy
Rachel Jackson on CHUNKS & her Bunny Boiler vlogs
Rachel Jackson on her BBC Three shorts for Valentine's Day, Chunks and being the former icon of Irn-Bru Read more »| 08 Feb 2017 -
Music
Live music in Liverpool this week: 8-14 Feb
The Arch Drude returns! Plus classical adventures from Manchester Collective, politically-minded pop from Cabbage and a whole mess of other delights... Read more »| 08 Feb 2017