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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Music65daysofstatic performing The Fall of Math, Manchester Cathedral, 29 October
Joe Shrewsbury stalks the stage, gripping his guitar in combative fashion, a stance chiming with the defensive ruminations he adopts when discussing tonight&... Read more »| 03 Nov 2014 -
Film
Scotland Film Event Highlights – November 2014
This month's highlights include women in sci-fi, a new pop-up cinema and a season focussed on the Big Apple Read more »| 03 Nov 2014 -
ArtMen Who Like Women Who Smell of Their Jobs @ John Rylands Library, Manchester
Spread across two corners of the John Rylands Library, and as abbreviated as the micro fiction that it celebrates, Men Who Like Women Who Smell of Their... Read more »| 03 Nov 2014 -
BooksBy Night the Mountain Burns by Juan Tomas Ávila Laurel
This reads a bit like a short story cycle. An episode swells and lapses, another swells in turn. By Night the Mountain Burns is told orally, through some lit... Read more »| 31 Oct 2014 -
BooksPerfidia by James Ellroy
Corruption, racism, murder, misogyny: Perfidia is a 700 page thrasher of a novel, delivered in Ellroy’s feverish staccato sentences and telegrammatic s... Read more »| 31 Oct 2014 -
Clubs
Northwest Clubbing Highlights – November 2014
Bonfire season is upon us! Here’s a smorgasbord of nights that you’ll probably struggle to remember, remember Read more »| 31 Oct 2014
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Music
Helmet @ The Cathouse, Glasgow, 29 October
Since an eleventh hour power cut delayed our chances of seeing Helmet’s '92 breakthrough Meantime brought to life in all its aggressive glory the last ... Read more »| 31 Oct 2014 -
Music
Love Among the Ruins: The Knife on pop, performance and queering the norm
Ahead of The Knife's latest and perhaps last ever tour (which takes in The Warehouse Project on 5 Nov), the Swedish siblings talk to us about their roots, Shaking the Habitual, and what it means to be a socially conscious pop band in the 21st century Read more »| 31 Oct 2014 -
Music
Piss Vortex – Piss Vortex
Rock journo problems: sometimes the adjectives you planned to use to review a metal band are already laid out perfectly neatly in the press release. Brutal? ... Read more »| 31 Oct 2014 -
Film
Northwest Film Event Highlights – November 2014
Extraterrestrials, flying saucers, mysterious clones and malevolent robots from the future invade the Northwest this month Read more »| 31 Oct 2014 -
Music
Bloodbath – Grand Morbid Funeral
It starts with the longest scream in history. That's your man, Nick Holmes. By name alone he might sound like an estate agent who once spammed you on LinkedI... Read more »| 31 Oct 2014 -
Music
The Antlers, The Kazimier, Liverpool, 28 October
“I lost my voice yesterday,” apologises Peter Silberman, trying to make us all understand that his shots at the high notes may fall somewhat flat... Read more »| 31 Oct 2014 -
Music
Nils Frahm @ RNCM, 28 October
In the dappled dark, Nils Frahm takes one sock-footed step towards the brink of the stage; picks up a microphone, and speaks. His intake of breath could be t... Read more »| 31 Oct 2014 -
Music
Blueneck – King Nine
The fifth album from this Somerset post-rock outfit is a predictably expansive but surprisingly accessible set. That particular label, however, is starting t... Read more »| 31 Oct 2014 -
Music
Hookworms – The Hum
Surely an ironic title – for all the persistent drones of Hookworms’ second album, there’s nothing as soft or dull as an actual hum. For al... Read more »| 31 Oct 2014