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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MusicKristin Hersh @ Gorilla, Manchester, 13 Nov
From up on Gorilla's balcony, minutes before Kristin Hersh takes to the stage, a genuine and perfectly reasonable question from the young sound guy: "Have yo... Read more »| 24 Nov 2016 -
FilmDVD Gift Guide: From Buster to 'Bustin
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me... a collector's edition DVD (or more likely a Blu-ray, but that doesn't rhyme) Read more »| 24 Nov 2016 -
Music
Julia Holter @ Cathedral, Manchester, 15 Nov
The Californian pop firebrand brings her vitally diverse live show to historic surroundings in Manchester Read more »| 24 Nov 2016 -
ClubsClub nights in Leeds this week: 24 Nov-1 Dec
This weekend it's all about Back to Basics' 25th anniversary party, while there's plenty to book ahead for including Horse Meat Disco and some special Christmas one-offs. Read more »| 24 Nov 2016 -
ClubsClub nights in Liverpool this week: 24 Nov-1 Dec
It's a packed week for Liverpool's clubs, with Nightmares On Wax, Erol Alkan, Ruf Dug, and a whole host of major league DJs coming down to Camp and Furnace for a Fabric benefit all in the diary. Read more »| 24 Nov 2016 -
Clubs
Club nights in Manchester this week: 24 Nov-1 Dec
The festive season gets an injection of the carnivalesque as a fundraiser party from Audio Farm brings live jam bands and circus performers to Islington Mill... Read more »| 24 Nov 2016
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Film
Trainspotting 2: International trailer reveals new footage
Another tantalising glimpses at Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting sequel T2 in the international trailer Read more »| 23 Nov 2016 -
Music
The Coral to star in new exhibition in Harrogate
The Coral: Distance Inbetween is a new exhibition documenting the music, artwork and stories behind the band’s most recent album. Read more »| 23 Nov 2016 -
Books
This Must Be The Place by Maggie O'Farrell
This Must Be the Place, the seventh novel from veteran chronicler of human emotion and relationships Maggie O’Farrell, follows the meandering life of D... Read more »| 23 Nov 2016 -
Music
RM Hubbert @ Electric Circus, Edinburgh, 21 Nov
The parts shouldn't really add up to the whole. Man with acoustic guitar, playing music derived from flamenco stylings and the dynamics of mid-90s post-rock,... Read more »| 23 Nov 2016 -
Books
A Literary Gift Guide: Challenging the Narrative
This year, while our books gift guide offers little Christmas sparkle it's anything but dull. These are literary suggestions aligned with the issues of our age offering knowledge, which, after a damning 2016, could let in the light Read more »| 23 Nov 2016 -
Books
Women rule in 2016 Costa Book Awards shortlist
Rose Tremain, Sarah Perry and Kate Tempest are among the 20 nominated writers who are contenders for the Costa Awards' £30,000 top prize Read more »| 23 Nov 2016 -
Film
Martin Scorsese's Silence gets first trailer
This passion project from the Goodfellas director has been in the works for nearly 30 years For nearly three decades Martin Scorsese, the great director of ... Read more »| 23 Nov 2016 -
Art
This Week in Scottish Art: 22-28 Nov
Brace yourselves for an eventful week ahead with two festival, previews, new shows, performances, a talk, and a symposium in Edinburgh and Glasgow, but at the start of next week there’s a chance to spoil your loved ones, (or yourself) at GSA Read more »| 22 Nov 2016 -
Music
Yippee Ki Yay: Song, by Toad & The Happiness Hotel
On a dreich Sunday afternoon in November, we jump on the bus to the deepest darkest depths of Leith and catch up with Song, by Toad ringleader Matthew Young, at The Happiness Hotel. Read more »| 22 Nov 2016