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“I want to be unpredictable”: Roy Andersson Interview
A filmmaker sat on a chair reflecting on cinema – we speak to deadpan poet Roy Andersson about his new film and the human condition Read more »| 21 Apr 2015 -
MusicJackson Scott – Sunshine Redux
Jackson Scott’s debut album Melbourne had been knocking around online for months before Fat Possum gave it a full release in 2013. With reviews ranging... Read more »| 21 Apr 2015 -
Music
Mew – + -
Danish alt-rock dreamboats Mew are return with an ode to the album format; a labour of love that navigates its emotional peaks and troughs with the precision... Read more »| 21 Apr 2015 -
MusicPale Honey – Youth
Guitar-plus-drums duo does scuzzy dream pop. Not, by any stretch of the imagination, designed to appeal by dint of its novelty, but Pale Honey force enough g... Read more »| 21 Apr 2015 -
Music
Godspeed You! Black Emperor @ Manchester Albert Hall, 17 April
Tonight, during a crushing Mladic, the epic foundation stone of 2012's 'comeback' album ’Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!, Godspeed You! Black Emperor o... Read more »| 20 Apr 2015 -
TheatreEarly Days (of a better nation) @ Unity Theatre Liverpool
The war is over and the nation lies in ruins. You and your fellow survivors must build the beginnings of a new country. What are the rules you’re going... Read more »| 20 Apr 2015
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Film
The Salvation
As ever, Mads Mikkelsen dominates in writer-director Kristian Levring’s classy, if brutal, western. It’s another effortlessly charismatic perform... Read more »| 17 Apr 2015 -
Film
Child 44
A whole heap of classy star power can’t save Daniel Espinosa’s adaptation of Tim Rob Smith’s popular novel, the cast instead flailing about... Read more »| 17 Apr 2015 -
Clubs
Skinned #8: Luv*Jam
In the latest of our Skinned DJ mixes, purveyor of British folklore Luv*Jam sculls through the tropics into more scintillating fare over the course of two splendid hours Read more »| 17 Apr 2015 -
Art
Lights, Late Nights and Life through a Lens: This Month in Northwest Art
As the cities come to life under cover of dark for LightNight and Manchester After Hours, and LOOK/15 photo festival takes over Liverpool, plan your month in art with our pick of the best exhibitions and events Read more »| 17 Apr 2015 -
Music
Blur – The Magic Whip
Whither now the Britpop refugee? It’s been eleven years and at least two reconciliations since Blur last released a record. In a world where ‘90s... Read more »| 17 Apr 2015 -
Film
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
Following Songs from the Second Floor and You, the Living, Swedish auteur Roy Andersson here concludes his absurdist trilogy of human nature. It’s an i... Read more »| 17 Apr 2015 -
Music
The Lovely Eggs – This Is Our Nowhere
Lancaster’s finest return with a fourth album of schizoid odd-pop – the titular ‘nowhere’ presumably referring to the small town they... Read more »| 17 Apr 2015 -
Music
Kill the Waves – The One That Could Have Been
Kill the Waves appear as though in the midst of an identity crisis on their debut album. The Glasgow six-piece ooze potential but could do with making t... Read more »| 17 Apr 2015 -
Music
Howling – Sacred Ground
Combining sultry vocals and acoustic instrumentation with ethereal synth figures and cold deep house beats, the debut full-length from Howling (the joint pro... Read more »| 16 Apr 2015