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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MusicThe Besnard Lakes – A Coliseum Complex Museum
If you like giant orbs, the great outdoors, hanging out in museums and being told creepy, candle-lit stories of strange beasts and ghostly happenings, you&rs... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
MusicSongs For Walter – Songs For Walter
After years of gracing the various backstreet and basement stages of his hometown, Manchester's Laurie Hulme finally releases his debut album. A hotch-potch ... Read more »| 06 Jan 2016 -
ClubsScottish Clubbing Highlights – January 2016
January blues hitting home? Not to worry: clubland has the answer, as Jackmaster, Blue Hour and David Rodigan bring their wildly-differing but equally vital wares to Scotland. Read more »| 05 Jan 2016 -
Books
Nicotine by Gregor Hens
Nicotine. A highly appropriate work to review this time of year, when self-imposed abstinence casts its cloud over the chaste post-Christmas period. Gregor ... Read more »| 05 Jan 2016 -
Music
Mystery Jets – Curve of the Earth
Those firing into Curve of the Earth expecting the same twinkly-eyed, danceable indie-pop as their seminal debut Making Dens (some ten years later, would you... Read more »| 05 Jan 2016 -
Music
Black Sheep: LuckyMe's NAKED plot their debut LP
Ungoogleable darksmiths NAKED help The Skinny break down one of the most hotly anticipated debuts of the coming year Read more »| 05 Jan 2016
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ComedyAltitude Festival: Stand-up snowballs in Austria
With the Altitude Festival turning 10, co-founder Andrew Maxwell tells us of its secret Edinburgh origins, how the ski slopes call for the same mindset that's needed onstage, and the kind of audiences that know how to come in from the cold. Read more »| 05 Jan 2016 -
Film
Love
Gaspar Noé's Love was shot in 3D, but it doesn't add any dimensions to its characters “My biggest dream is to make a movie that truly depicts s... Read more »| 05 Jan 2016 -
Theatre
Snow White @ Kings Theatre, Glasgow
The King’s Theatre’s Snow White is a ‘traditional’ panto in the modern sense, which means it takes the plot of a Disney movie, pepper... Read more »| 05 Jan 2016 -
Music
Howes – 3.5 Degrees
Delicate, sparse, occasionally transmogrifying; the debut album from Manchester-based musician John Howes is both back-lit and fugue-like, riffing upon solit... Read more »| 05 Jan 2016 -
Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – January 2016
From Daughter to Vieux Farka Touré and a first appearance in Liverpool for Hollie McNish, January’s gig calendar has plenty to keep those brandy-soaked blues at bay Read more »| 04 Jan 2016 -
Clubs
Northwest Clubbing Highlights – January 2016
Laugh in the face of seasonal affective disorder by remaining underground at all times and confounding your body with a combination of bright lasers and pitch darkness. Yes, that’s right. Go clubbing! Read more »| 04 Jan 2016 -
Music
Scottish Gig Highlights – January 2016
We cast an eye over a few treats from the central belt's live music calendar this coming month, featuring mini-festivals Celtic Connections, King Tut's New Year Revolution and the return of Bristol's finest. Read more »| 04 Jan 2016 -
Film
Northwest Film Event Highlights – January 2016
The New Year gets off to a promising start with HOME’s wide-reaching celebration of Mancunian screenwriter Jim Allen, while FACT have an interesting screening to compliment their Follow exhibition Read more »| 04 Jan 2016 -
Books
Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs by Lina Wolff
‘We’re going to call this little pup Dante. Let’s call the mangy old cur over there Chaucer.’ This is Alba Cambo, standing in front o... Read more »| 04 Jan 2016