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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MusicRatatat – Magnifique
Magnifique, the fifth album from Brooklyn-based duo Ratatat, discontinues the naming convention set up with LP3 and LP4. But it could comfortably be called L... Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
ArtLiverpool John Moores Fine Art Degree Shows: Doll Glaze Gossip
Sandwiches, disembodied heads and a miniature coliseum: it’s Liverpool School of Art & Design Degree Show 2015 Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
MusicNatalie Prass @ The Deaf Institute, 25 June
The L.A. singer-songwriter brings a half-baked version of her excellent debut to Manchester Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
MusicTame Impala – Currents
For the past few years Tame Impala, aka the one-man studio machine Keven Parker, have been steadily redefining psychedelic rock for a millennial audience. Th... Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
Film
Scotland Film Event Highlights – July 2015
This month's highlights include a celebration of Orson Welles at Filmhouse, a weekend of films featuring The Who at DCA, and a geek's paradise at Comic Con at Glasgow's CCA Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
Books
Comma Press launch new literary platform MacGuffin
Comma Press has launched MacGuffin, a new self-publishing platform for fiction, essays and poetry. The Manchester-based imprint – who specialise in sho... Read more »| 30 Jun 2015
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Art
Manchester School of Art Degree Show: Breaking Boundaries
At this year's Manchester School of Art degree shows we found an interesting experiment in curation, with the boundaries between courses broken down Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
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OPEN 1 @ Open Eye Gallery
Open 1 marks the start of a new series of annual exhibitions that showcase work and research projects that have been submitted to Open Eye since 2013. Open E... Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
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Cannons & Kickstarters: This Week in Scottish Art
This weekend sees art parties in Dundee and Glasgow, as well as new exhibitions and one-off events at Fruitmarket, DCA, and Generator plus a trip to London for some new GSA graduates. Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
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Et Dieu Créa la Femme @ Good Press
The black and white partial view of Venus that opens Et Dieu Crea La Femme, edited by Tine Bek,embodies the elusive and diverse nature of femininity that the... Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
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They Had Four Years @ Generator Dundee
Entering They Had Four Years, Generator’s pick of last year’s degree shows, a loud mechanical thrumming emanates from a go-kart made from an old ... Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
Books
Stop the Clocks: Natasha Pulley on The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
As Natasha Pulley releases her acclaimed debut novel, The Skinny talks to her about history writing itself and finding her feet in the present Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
Film
Northwest Film Event Highlights – July 2015
This month there's a chance to relive the summer of 96 at the movies, compare two twisted takes on American suburbia and catch a doc on the rise of ear-bashing industrial rock Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
Music
Lee Bannon – Pattern of Excel
Turns out this’ll be the last album from the artist formerly known as Lee Bannon; from now on he’ll be working under the name “¬ b&rdqu... Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
Art
UCLan Fine Art Degree Show: Exposé
‘Exposé’ is the theme of UCLan’s Fine Art Degree show. It’s unclear whether this is a strict theme, or just nominal, but as an... Read more »| 30 Jun 2015