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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ArtLiverpool's Illuminations: The Skinny Guide to LightNight
Now in its sixth year, LightNight is more epic than ever. We chat to organisers Open Culture and some of the participating artists about what makes this city-wide festival so special – and select our highlights Read more »| 04 May 2015 -
FilmKeeping It Reel: HOME's artistic director of film, Jason Wood
Ahead of HOME's grand launch, we pick the brains of new artistic director of film Jason Wood, who reveals his ambitions for the cinema programme at the freshly minted arts venue Read more »| 04 May 2015 -
MusicThe Tallest Man on Earth – Dark Bird is Home
A shimmering influx of Scandinavian country-influenced singers – that’s First Aid Kit and the like – have graced the international sta... Read more »| 03 May 2015 -
BooksCulture at Cervantes – May 2015
Your guide to this month's highlights at the Cervantes Institute Read more »| 03 May 2015 -
Art
What Remains @ Generator
Literally off-kilter, Hans K. Clausen sets the tone of What Remains with a skip hanging at a strange angle in middle of Generator’s exhibition spa... Read more »| 01 May 2015 -
BooksThe Wolf Border by Sarah Hall
Rachel Caine moves back to Cumbria after a decade spent protecting wolves on an Idaho reservation. Thomas Pennington – an earl – owns lots of the... Read more »| 01 May 2015
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Comedy
Crystal Baws: May 2015 Horoscopes
ARIESUranus slides back into your sign in May, leaving an immense skidmark all the way across the night sky. TAURUSWhen you die this month God takes you to ... Read more »| 01 May 2015 -
Film
A Funny Kind of Love
Josh Lawson's sexual comedy starts boldly: with the image of a naked foot approached slowly by a protruding tongue. This toe-sucking episode marks the beginn... Read more »| 01 May 2015 -
Books
James Kelman: On Form
As his Lean Third short story collection is polished and republished, James Kelman, our grand master of literary fiction reflects on the craft and slog of experimental writing, class, culture and the high profile controversies surrounding his great works Read more »| 01 May 2015 -
Books
Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman’s latest publication is a collection of fanciful stories and poems designed to rivet and excite the reader with tales of transdimensional p... Read more »| 01 May 2015 -
Music
Flesh 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 -
Theatre
Love 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 -
Film
Louder 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 -
Art
The 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