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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MusicDaughn Gibson @ East Village Arts Club, Liverpool, 24 November
“Tonight seems like a good night for us to just fuck around; that’s alright with you guys, right?” asks Daughn Gibson with the rhetorical a... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
BooksJoin the Army by Darren Cullen
Join the Army has the capacity to offend a lot of people. A pull-out concertina-style jumble of adverts and comics, parodying recruitment materials of the ar... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
MusicScottish Gig Highlights – December 2013
December's live highlights include retro rockers Rocket From The Crypt, industrial disco trio Factory Floor, the return of Pop Will Eat Itself, and a Hogmanay extravaganza with Pet Shop Boys, Django Django and CHVRCHES Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – December 2013
This month's gigs are front-loaded to make way for our annual shindig to celebrate the birth of Santa, but there are still plenty of must-go shows, from Yo La Tengo to Factory Floor via Everything Everything Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Film
Fresh Meat: Rough Cut Set Visit
In a forest in the Lake District a giant lactating worm has enslaved a town and is eating hitchhiking teenagers. Trickster Jamie Shovlin lets us see behind the scenes of his latest meta mind-fuck Rough Cut, a documentary about a film that never was Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Film
The Patience Stone
After her astonishing work in Asghar Farhadi’s About Elly, Golshifteh Farahani’s performance in The Patience Stone confirms her status as on... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013
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Music
Exclusive: Hear Rocket From The Crypt's new cover of Baker Street
Maverick San Diego rockers Rocket From The Crypt – that's John 'Speedo' Reis, Pete 'Petey X' Reichert, Andy 'ND' Stamets, Paul 'Apollo 9' O'B... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Art
Dennis Reinmüller @ Summerhall, until 22 Nov
Seinfeld, the TV sitcom based loosely on the ‘real’ lives of its writers is often cited as ‘a show about nothing.’ Dennis J. Reinm&uu... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
TheatreChristmas Season, Panto Season
December heralds the beginning of the Christmas season. Aside from longer shop hours, Christmas carols and decorations, this month also sees the resurrection of the Christmas pantomime, more affectionately known as 'panto' Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Film
Staff Do, or Staff Don't? Why Not Stay at Home with a Comedy DVD...
The Christmas period is jam-packed with comedy nights, which are in turn jam-packed with office parties; which is precisely why you should avoid them like the plague, argues our Comedy ed Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Clubs
Retro Fetishism: Gerd Janson's Tech-House Ode to Thomas Pynchon
Ahead of his date at The Warehouse Project this month, Running Back boss Gerd Janson talks Tuff City Kids, American culture, and cutting off his own hands Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Music
American Werewolf Academy – Out Of Place All The Time
Goddam these songs. Just when you think you’ve seen too many straight-up powerpop bands or heard enough Guided By Voices classics getting bent outta sh... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Music
Dean Blunt @ Blade Factory, Liverpool, 30 November
For all the talk of ex-Hype Williams man Dean Blunt's fickle stage manner – there's a palpable air of trepidation in tonight's cold, minimally lit Blad... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Music
After the Burial – Wolves Within
After the Burial's fourth LP may be crammed with sinister riffs and guttural growls, but like past efforts, the production is slick: every guitar slam and to... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013 -
Music
The Gentle Good – Y Bardd Anfarwol
Following a six-week artistic residency at the Theatre of Performing Arts in Chengdu in 2011, Welsh folk singer and guitarist Gareth Bonello returned to the ... Read more »| 03 Dec 2013