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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FilmThe Offence
Over a career spanning five decades, Sidney Lumet specialised in taut, claustrophobic human dramas. But while the director's early works such as 12 Angry Men... Read more »| 16 Apr 2015 -
BooksInner City Rhythm: George the Poet spits words at Aye Write!
This weekend a 24-year-old with both a raw and refined way with words takes to the stage at Aye Write! We talk politics and poetry with BRITs 2015 Critics' Choice Award nominee George the Poet Read more »| 16 Apr 2015 -
Music
The Bug vs Dylan Carlson's Earth to make live debut at Supersonic Festival
Birmingham's Supersonic Festival has today announced plans to host the debut live performance between two uncompromising and quite naturally aligned masters ... Read more »| 15 Apr 2015 -
Music
White Arrows – In Bardo
White Arrows’ sophomore album is the result of slowing down, having a think, and coming back fighting. After 2012 debut Dry Land Is Not a Myth, the ban... Read more »| 15 Apr 2015 -
MusicColin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld – Never Were the Way She Was
Saxophonist Colin Stetson and violinist Sarah Neufeld, known as much for their prolific collaborations (see: Tom Waits, Bon Iver, Arcade Fire) as their solo ... Read more »| 15 Apr 2015 -
MusicRaekwon – Fly International Luxurious Art
After a protracted will-he, won’t-he saga dragged on for much of last year, Raekwon eventually did contribute verses to Wu-Tang Clan’s A Better T... Read more »| 15 Apr 2015
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Comedy
Romesh Ranganathan on politics & parenthood
Romesh Ranganathan talks to The Skinny about his current tour, his upcoming new show for the 2015 Fringe and his family's unique birthing plan schedule Read more »| 14 Apr 2015 -
Music
The Last Word: Raekwon on F.I.L.A., Cuban Linx at 20 and Wu-Tang's legacy
The Wu-Tang legend shares his thoughts on family, religion, his new record, the twentieth anniversary of Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, and the controversial duo of new Clan records Read more »| 14 Apr 2015 -
Music
Husky Rescue – The Long Lost Friend: Special Edition
The fourth album from this Finnish folktronica project gets its first worldwide issue, following a domestic release back in 2013. This special edition comes ... Read more »| 14 Apr 2015 -
Music
Out of Body: Gazelle Twin + Carla Mackinnon @ FACT, Liverpool, 9 April
Puberty, a rite of passage that hopefully everyone traverses relatively unscathed, is an awkward process, but a necessary one. It’s trying, and usually... Read more »| 14 Apr 2015 -
Music
Hartheim @ Soup Kitchen, Manchester, 8 April
Hartheim are awash with contradiction. Defined as much by what they are not as by what they are, every note, every grievous lyric ("Your god has so much to a... Read more »| 14 Apr 2015 -
Art
Dark Shadows, Uneasy Tension, and a Ford Ka: This Week in Scottish Art
In this week's art round-up, you'll find online and radio art works, new shows at a host of Glasgow and Edinburgh galleries, and a celebration of Hannibal Lecter. Read more »| 14 Apr 2015 -
Music
We Are The City – Violent
There’s a new Mew album due this spring, but if you can’t wait that long the debut album from Canadian three-piece We Are The City might just tid... Read more »| 14 Apr 2015 -
Music
The Kazimier is set to close: Liverpool reacts
As one of Liverpool's most iconic venues of recent times announces its closure later this year, we ask participants in the local scene what this will mean for the city Read more »| 13 Apr 2015 -
Music
Track premiere: James Canty - ‘Love’
Listen to a premiere of Love, the title track from the forthcoming EP by Liverpool-based songwriter James Canty. The track, packed with harpsichords, synthe... Read more »| 13 Apr 2015