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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MusicUltimate Painting - Dusk
The Mazes/Veronica Falls crossover take a turn for the worse on a murky third full-length Read more »| 15 Sep 2016 -
MusicLive music in Liverpool this week: 14-20 Sep
You'd think the live music scene might slow down in Liverpool as Psych Fest approaches, but no, it's as busy as ever. From post-punk legends to site-specific world premieres, here's our guide to the pick of the bunch Read more »| 14 Sep 2016 -
Clubs
Glasgow Clubbing Highlights: 14-20 September
Japanese house veteran Soichi Terada brings his live show to Glasgow this weekend, while La Cheetah celebrate 10 years of Hypercolour and Sub Club welcome Israeli DJ Guy Gerber Read more »| 14 Sep 2016 -
Clubs
Edinburgh Clubbing Highlights: 14-20 September
The sounds of Berlin fill the capital this weekend with nights featuring Germans Marcel Dettman and Marcus Worgull, plus there's a long-awaited return by the legendary Groove Armada Read more »| 14 Sep 2016 -
MusicLive music in Manchester this week: 14-20 Sep
Local psych-rock troupes, Canadian grungemakers and festivals aplenty: summer may be well and truly over but Manchester's live scene is as busy as ever Read more »| 14 Sep 2016 -
Music
Dundee DIY Newsletter: September
Derrick Johnston runs DIY institution Make-That-A-Take – he puts out records, puts on shows, and once a year he throws Dundee a whole damn music f... Read more »| 14 Sep 2016
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Comedy
Spotlight: Simon Lomas
The Yorkshire New Comedian of the Year recalls some excellent backstage nibbles Read more »| 14 Sep 2016 -
FilmThe legacy of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
Psycho returns to Manchester this Halloween in the form of Psycho Live, with an orchestral score provided by Manchester Camerata. But Alfred Hitchcock's 1960... Read more »| 14 Sep 2016 -
Music
Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch
Released only a year after career highlight Apocalypse, Girl, Norwegian experimentalist Jenny Hval’s latest album shows her eschewing sonic grandness t... Read more »| 14 Sep 2016 -
Art
Alice Neel @ Talbot Rice Gallery
The Subject and Me aims to narrate Alice Neel’s (1900-1984) turbulent life through her later paintings and drawings. Neel is showcased as a subject and... Read more »| 14 Sep 2016 -
Film
Tommy Wiseau: Hipster Irony Created a Monster
The “world's worst filmmaker may censor Sydney Underground Film Festival” reads a headline in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, and it’s all your fault Read more »| 13 Sep 2016 -
Music
Pinegrove @ The Hug & Pint, 7 Sep
It’s heaving in The Hug & Pint tonight. Perhaps it’s the incremental hype built up by Pinegrove’s burgeoning reputation as fine tunesmi... Read more »| 13 Sep 2016 -
Theatre
Autumn theatre highlights in the North
Autumn is always a busy time for theatre. Here's our guide to the season's highlights Read more »| 13 Sep 2016 -
Books
Graeme Macrae Burnet makes Man Booker Shortlist
Today the prestigious Man Booker Prize was announced, with a novel from tiny Scottish publisher Saraband making the cut ahead of work by JM Coetzee and AL Kennedy Read more »| 13 Sep 2016 -
Books
Graphic Content: Thought Bubble 2016
Comics fans will gather in Leeds in November for the tenth anniversary of Thought Bubble festival – the UK’s biggest celebration of sequential ar... Read more »| 13 Sep 2016