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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MusicDope Body survey June's singles
Prior to a night of fierce sweating, Baltimore noise-rockers (and March 'Track of the Month' champions) Dope Body try to muster some love for this month’s offerings, and debate whether or not that’s a marimba in there Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
ArtMatthew Denniss: Future Imperfect
A joint exhibition at Manchester's Bureau gallery, The Utopian Buck Stops Here sees Matthew Denniss inspect the dreams – and failings – of modernist architecture Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Music
Stag & Dagger 2013: Glasgow, 18 May
Though its sights were initially set on a healthy mix of hotly tipped buzz bands and home-grown underdogs, Glasgow's annual Stag & Dagger festival has ti... Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
ArtCarol Bove @ The Common Guild, until 29 Jun
Carol Bove’s show The Foamy Saliva of a Horse seems in many ways typical of Common Guild fare. The installation takes various small-scale objects, made... Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Film
Opinion: There's Nowt So Queer As Labels
You'll have seen the headlines: 'Lesbian Film Wins Palme d'Or.' But why do only same-sex love stories have their orientation declared? Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Film
Aguirre, Herzog and The Secret Mainstream
A screening of Aguirre: Wrath of God in a newly restored print offers the chance enjoy anew Werner Herzog's 1972 classic Read more »| 04 Jun 2013
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TheatreBlue Monday: The Library Theatre Company present Manchester Sound: The Massacre
Presenting two pivotal points in history – the Peterloo Massacre and the explosion of rave culture – the Library Theatre Company’s new site-specific work Manchester Sound: The Massacre takes us to a secret location in search of independence and freedom Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Music
Congo Natty – Jungle Revolution
The press release for Jungle Revolution states that Congo Natty (aka Rebel MC) ‘sees jungle as a re-boot of roots reggae for a new century&rs... Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Film
Joss Whedon on Much Ado About Nothing
We speak to director, writer and wannabe stuntman Joss Whedon about his switch from Avengers' billion dollar comic-book franchise to Much Ado About Nothing, the low budget Shakespeare adaptation he shot in and around his Santa Monica home Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Music
Tunng – Turbines
Frontiersmen and women of the ‘folktronica’ movement, Tunng have long blended gentle, well-rounded folk melodies with morsels of twee electronic ... Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Music
Toro y Moi talks Arthur Russell and astral jazz
Over the course of three albums, Chaz Bundick – or Toro y Moi – has revealed himself as something of an anorak, drawing on everything from house to R'n'B. He talks to us about Arthur Russell and astral jazz, and bemoans our lack of modern-day pop auteurs Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Music
Sigur Rós – Kveikur
Loose and roaring, Brennisteinn – the opening gambit of Sigur Rós' seventh studio album – is the sound of the band getting nasty. Beneath ... Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Music
Poppy Ackroyd – Escapement
After an initial release last year, this 7-track album of multi-tracked piano, violin and field recordings from Hidden Orchestra collaborator Poppy Ackroyd g... Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Music
5:14 Revisited: Malcolm Middleton reflects on his debut solo album
One time Arab Strap man Malcolm Middleton speaks about the re-release of his debut album, his ever maturing muse and falling foul of the Mayor of Falkirk Read more »| 03 Jun 2013 -
Art
The Skinny Showcase: Alexander Millar
Showcase: Alexander Millar “A variety of different things will go into an installation I put together: video, sculpture photography and often found ob... Read more »| 03 Jun 2013