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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MusicFlesh and Bone: Fuck Buttons' Benjamin John Power returns as Blanck Mass
The bucolic daydream of Blanck Mass’ eponymous debut has slipped into an exhilarating kind of nightmare with follow-up Dumb Flesh. Benjamin John Power takes time out to talk about isolation, contradiction and his new life in Bonnie Scotland. Read more »| 01 May 2015 -
Books
Sour Soul: Stuart Cosgrove on Detroit ’67
Stuart Cosgrove on his stunning new book Detroit '67, documenting the most significant 365 days in soul's history, which saw racism and riots rage, and commodified musicians come to tragic ends. Angry parallels to our current times become easily apparent Read more »| 01 May 2015 -
TheatreLove in Troubled Times: Simon Stephens on The Funfair
HOME opens its new 500-seater theatre with Kasimir and Karoline, an update of Ödön von Horváth's 1930s masterpiece of German theatre. Stopfordian playwright Simon Stephens tells us why his update is written for today's Manchester Read more »| 01 May 2015 -
FilmLouder than Words: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy on The Tribe
Set in a boarding school for deaf teens, there is no spoken dialogue in The Tribe, the latest from Ukrainian filmmaker Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, but it still makes a bold statement Read more »| 01 May 2015 -
ArtThe Skinny Showcase: Darren Cullen
Showcase: Darren Cullen Darren Cullen is a self-unemployed artist, writer and occasional musician from Leeds who once studied at Glasgow School of Art and n... Read more »| 30 Apr 2015 -
Art
Li Binyuan: Social Behaviours @ CFCCA, Manchester
Social Behaviours is Li Binyuan’s first solo exhibition in the UK and it certainly makes an impact. The majority of the Beijing-based artist’s wo... Read more »| 30 Apr 2015
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Music
Prefuse 73 – Rivington Não Rio
Four years since Scott Herren’s last release under any of his multiple guises, and it appears he has enjoyed his thinking time. Returning to the very e... Read more »| 30 Apr 2015 -
ArtHugo Canoilas @ Cooper Gallery
The reading list – slipped in the middle of the handout for Hugo Canoilas' gallery-saturating exhibition Someone a long time ago, now&nb... Read more »| 30 Apr 2015 -
Music
God Damn – Vultures
Even if you’re not convinced of Wolverhampton-based hard rock duo God Damn’s outstanding technical ability by the first slew on torrential drum f... Read more »| 30 Apr 2015 -
Art
Carol Bove / Carlo Scarpa @ Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
What do the Italian architect Carlo Scarpa (1906–78) and the contemporary Brooklyn-based sculptor Carol Bove have in common? The answer: quite a lot, r... Read more »| 30 Apr 2015 -
Comedy
Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Comedy Spotlight
The silent member of Gein's Family Giftshop is no fan of gong shows Read more »| 30 Apr 2015 -
Film
Northwest Film Event Highlights – May 2015
There's sci-fi galore at FACT, HOME opens its doors with a brace of live scores and Grimm Up North take us on an epic journey back to Middle Earth Read more »| 30 Apr 2015 -
Music
Faith No More – Sol Invictus
Hell-bent on reaching higher than before (rather than pissing on their life’s work), trust these perennial non-conformists to creep back in to the fray... Read more »| 30 Apr 2015 -
Books
Last Orders: John Doran on Jolly Lad
One of the finest music critics of the past 20 years, some of John Doran's most scathing reviews would come to be about himself, in a series of columns that led to his debut book, Jolly Lad Read more »| 30 Apr 2015 -
Film
Scotland Film Event Highlights – May 2015
There's a music connection to this month's best movie happenings, with the Scottish premiere of St Etienne Live: How We Used to Live and a screening of The Clash: Westway to the World among May's film highlights Read more »| 30 Apr 2015