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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Film
Stranger Things star gives anti-Trump speech at SAGs
As the Netflix show picked up a Screen Actors' Guild award, David Harbour give a barnstorming anti-Trump speech Read more »| 30 Jan 2017 -
Film
Mike Mills: “Grief can be really empowering”
Thumbsucker and Beginners director Mike Mills is back mining his own life for his art with 20th Century Women. He gives us some background on his very person... Read more »| 30 Jan 2017 -
Music
Ryan Adams plays surprise show in Manchester
Fans pack out Soup Kitchen following Twitter announcement Read more »| 28 Jan 2017 -
Music
Tinderbox Orchestra – Quetzalcoatl: Track Premiere
Listen to Quetzalcoatl by the Tinderbox Orchestra Read more »| 27 Jan 2017 -
Art
Erotic rock climbing, anyone?
Liverpool romantics can celebrate Valentine’s day by getting to grips with with grope mountain Read more »| 27 Jan 2017 -
Music
The Rural Alberta Advantage @ Broadcast, 24 Jan
On record, The Rural Alberta Advantage are a force of precision, of measured restraint and efficiency. Live, they're a freewheeling, weaponized unit. Their t... Read more »| 27 Jan 2017
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Clubs
Glasgow Clubbing Highlights: 26 Jan-1 Feb
Disco don David Barbarossa and London's Maribou State make up Glasgow's best club picks this week, plus catch Dutch duo Detroit Swindle for their Melting Pot debut Read more »| 27 Jan 2017 -
Clubs
Edinburgh Clubbing Highlights: 26 Jan-1 Feb
Grime prodigy Shogun hits the capital in this week's Edinburgh clubbing highlights, plus Fractal Club welcome Berlin mainstay Nick Höppner and Tweak host a super special secret location party Read more »| 27 Jan 2017 -
Film
How Hollywood joined the anti-Trump resistance
Shia LaBeouf scrapping with neo-Nazis, Alec Baldwin riffing on the President and Madonna dropping the F-bomb on the White House – the revolution might not be televised, but you can catch it on Netflix Read more »| 27 Jan 2017 -
Film
Donnie Darko's writer-director plans a sequel
Richard Kelly says it’ll be “much bigger and more ambitious” Read more »| 27 Jan 2017 -
Music
Allison Crutchfield on Tourist In This Town
What do you do when your band and your relationship break up in one fell swoop? We ask Allison Crutchfield, as she prepares to release her debut solo album Read more »| 27 Jan 2017 -
Music
Allison Crutchfield – Tourist in This Town
The Crutchfield twins have taken lightly diverging paths since their joint venture P.S. Eliot ended in 2011. While Katie’s solo project Waxahatchee has... Read more »| 27 Jan 2017 -
Music
Moon Duo – Occult Architecture Vol. 1
Since forming Wooden Shjips in 2006, guitarist Ripley Johnson has stuck fast to the principle of 'if it ain't broke, don’t fix it'. Over four albums th... Read more »| 27 Jan 2017 -
Film
Christine
Rebecca Hall gives an impressive performance as suicidal news reporter Christine Chubbuck, but director Antonio Campos never quite gets to grips with his subject Read more »| 27 Jan 2017 -
Film
McGregor, Bremner, Carlyle & Miller on Trainspotting 2
The long-awaited sequel to Trainspotting is here. The film’s four stars – Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner and Robert Carlyle – reflect on returning to their iconic characters Read more »| 26 Jan 2017