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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BooksDetroit '67 by Stuart Cosgrove
Stuart Cosgrove's immaculately researched account of a year in the life of the Motor City manages a delicate balancing act. While his love for the ... Read more »| 07 Apr 2015 -
Comedy
Found Footage Festival: The videos they wish they'd discovered
As the mighty Found Footage Festival returns to the UK with a selection of weird and wonderful VHS tapes, festival founder Nick Prueher laments some of the videos they wish they'd discovered Read more »| 07 Apr 2015 -
Music
Courtney Barnett @ Gorilla, 3 April
“We had the best meal of the tour so far.” That nugget of between-song stage chatter isn’t the only way in which Courtney Barnett flag... Read more »| 07 Apr 2015 -
MusicGodspeed You! Black Emperor – Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress
"And what are you going to sing for us, Nathan?" "I'm going to sing Piss Crowns Are Trebled by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Simon." "Excellent. Well best of ... Read more »| 07 Apr 2015 -
MusicThe Cathode Ray – Infinite Variety
OK, ‘infinite variety’ might be stretching things a little. Still, there’s plenty to digest on this Edinburgh quartet’s second album,... Read more »| 07 Apr 2015 -
Theatre
Access All Areas: Graeae Theatre
Champions of accessibility within the arts, Graeae Theatre Company make their way to Liverpool's Everyman Read more »| 07 Apr 2015
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Theatre
Reshaping the Octagon
Young, talented and ambitious, the recently appointed artistic director of the Bolton Octagon, Elizabeth Newman, discusses her plans to revitalise the town's theatre scene Read more »| 07 Apr 2015 -
TheatreThe Caucasian Chalk Circle
If art, by its very nature, is political, then Mark Thomson’s revival of Bertolt Brecht’s 1944 parable for the ages, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, ... Read more »| 07 Apr 2015 -
TheatreThe Fair Intellectual Club
The Fair Intellectual Club, directed for Stellar Quines by Marilyn Imrie, is a force of strong females, both in and out of the production. The first play pen... Read more »| 07 Apr 2015 -
Theatre
Rebecca @ The Lowry, Salford
If you were fortunate enough to catch Dead Dog in a Suitcase last year, you will be familiar with the work of Cornish storytellers Kneehigh. Missed out? It i... Read more »| 07 Apr 2015 -
Art
Leopards, Grids and Hannibal Lecter: This Week in Scottish Art
Big cat sightings inspire a new show at David Dale, a host of exhibitions come to a close in Dundee, and there's a talk from a BP Portrait Award judge; all that and more in this week's art round-up. Read more »| 07 Apr 2015 -
Theatre
Returning to Behaviour: Peter McMaster and Extremes
Ahead of BEHAVIOUR's sixth year, Peter McMaster talks about the support The Arches has always given him, pushing his work to extremes, and his show 27. Read more »| 06 Apr 2015 -
Comedy
Lost and Found
As the Found Footage Festival washes up on our shores once again, we speak to festival founder Nick Prueher about Jeremy Beadle, whelping and weirdos Read more »| 06 Apr 2015 -
Comedy
Musical comedy at the ballot box: Jonny and the Baptists Rock the Vote
Can music and comedy mobilise voters? Jonny and the Baptists' Paddy Gervers talks to The Skinny ahead of their Glasgow and Edinburgh shows Read more »| 06 Apr 2015 -
Music
East India Youth – CULTURE OF VOLUME
East India Youth – aka William Doyle – does it again. 2014’s Mercury nominated triumph Total Strife Forever saw Doyle lead the pack of hotl... Read more »| 06 Apr 2015