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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MusicIndependent Venue Week in the Northwest
The first Independent Venue Week brings together 18 gig venues from across the UK to celebrate those humble bars and clubs that support the grassroots of our local music scenes. Here’s what’s happening in the Northwest Read more »| 28 Jan 2014 -
Music
Michael Gira's Swans sign to Mute, announce To Be Kind
This week Mute announced their latest signing – Michael Gira's Swans will now join the roster. The band's new album will be titled To Be Kind, and will be released on 13 May this year Read more »| 28 Jan 2014 -
MusicMogwai @ The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, 27 Jan
Sitting down to witness ferociously loud, almost entirely instrumental electric-guitar work can, potentially, be a bit odd. These types of gigs require exper... Read more »| 28 Jan 2014 -
MusicThe Jaydes – The Jaydes
The use of vintage drum machines and synths on the debut album by The Jaydes allies it with Andrew Weatherall's album as The Asphodells, and Daniel Avery's a... Read more »| 28 Jan 2014 -
Music
The Fire Beneath The Sea @ Camp and Furnace, Liverpool, 24 January
It seems fitting as The Fire Beneath The Sea take to the Furnace stage tonight that they're headlining the venue’s new, themed night, Neighbourhood BBQ... Read more »| 28 Jan 2014 -
Comedy
The Colour Ham @ The Stand, Glasgow
As The Colour Ham embark on the first night of their prestigious residency at The Stand, Glasgow, we send Cat Cochrane to investigate... Read more »| 27 Jan 2014
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Music
The Afghan Whigs to return this April with their first album in 16 years
The Afghan Whigs are back with a new album, their first in 16 years. Do To The Beast will be dropping via Sub Pop on 14 April Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
FilmFilm News: Live action Ghost In The Shell plans revealed; first look at James Franco's Child of God
A round-up of film news and casting rumours: Ghost In The Shell live action remake in the works; Wonder Woman to feature in three movies; the latest on Tarantino's beleagured The Hateful Eight; plus: the latest on Star Wars VII Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
Theatre
Behaviour Festival programme unveiled
Behaviour is the annual festival of live performance hosted and curated by Glasgow venue The Arches. Their 2014 programme was unveiled late last week, with a huge raft of new productions, world premieres and groundbreaking performances announced Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
Books
Vicious by V.E. Schwab
Eli and Victor are straight-A students and best friends until they decide to investigate the existence of EOs (ExtraOrdinaries – people with superhuman... Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
Music
Daft Punk sweep the board at the Grammys
French electronic duo Daft Punk took home five Grammys last night at the celeb-studded awards ceremony in Los Angeles Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
Film
The Banshee Chapter
H.P. Lovecraft’s From Beyond gets a 21st century revamp in Blair Erickson's solid first feature. When a journalist investigates the disappearance of a ... Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
Film
Blood Glacier (aka The Station)
“The gates of hell are open. We melted them,” laments Janek (Gerhard Liebmann), a technician working against climate change in the remote German ... Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
Film
The Selfish Giant
In this Oscar Wilde-inspired addition to British cinema’s social realist canon, all of its Bradford milieu is in the gutter, but two boys are look... Read more »| 27 Jan 2014 -
Film
The Stuart Hall Project
Having redefined what documentaries can do in his groundbreaking Nine Muses, Ghana-born British director and rogue historian John Akomfrah once again revisit... Read more »| 27 Jan 2014