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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ArtThe Skinny Showcase: Maeve Redmond
Maeve Redmond is a freelance graphic designer who works primarily with Scotland’s artists, writers and cultural organisations. She has worked as our le... Read more »| 01 Mar 2015 -
Art
Playtime @ Cornerhouse, Manchester
The first time I visited Playtime, the last exhibition ever to be mounted at Cornerhouse (before it moves to its new HOME), it was the opening weekend last N... Read more »| 01 Mar 2015 -
MusicDeath from Above 1979 / Turbowolf @ The Ritz, Manchester, 24 February
“Did anybody see us a few months ago, across the road?” Therein lies part of the problem with tonight’s Death from Above 1979 show. Th... Read more »| 27 Feb 2015 -
BooksGhettoside by Jill Leovy
Ghettoside, that wonderful neologism, forms the title of this dark and murderous LA noir. The only problem being that it’s 100% real. LA Times reporte... Read more »| 27 Feb 2015 -
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Skinned #7: Jerome Hill [Don't]
Ahead of his appearance at the Bloc Weekend next month, the ever-industrious Londoner delivers a typically turbo-charged foray through his heaving techno and acid crates Read more »| 27 Feb 2015 -
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Swans, The Cribs and Peace added to Liverpool Sound City
Reactivated post-punk experimentalists Swans have been announced among the latest additions to the Liverpool Sound City bill. Fellow new announcements ... Read more »| 27 Feb 2015
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MusicScottish Gig Highlights – March 2015
Dear readers, spring is here! We know this is true because Tesco has started selling puny bunches of half-dead daffs. And with spring comes the start of pre-... Read more »| 27 Feb 2015 -
Music
Super Furry Animals confirm first live shows since 2009
Welsh psychedelic rockers Super Furry Animals have announced a string of gigs this May, their first in six years, along with a reissue of fourth album Mwng. ... Read more »| 27 Feb 2015 -
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Northwest Gig Highlights – March 2015
It's a disparate but discerning month, taking in some truly singular women (Tune-Yards, Tinashe); a clutch of comebacks (Sleater-Kinney, Idlewild), and festivals both old and new (Carefully Planned, LadyFest) Read more »| 27 Feb 2015 -
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D'Angelo @ O2 Apollo, Manchester, 18 February
The more you think about it, the more D’Angelo’s decision to effectively opt out of the commercial success his 14-years-in-the-making third LP, B... Read more »| 27 Feb 2015 -
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The Cribs – For All My Sisters
They've never shirked from the big, difficult issues in their lyrics but it felt like a real darkness had enveloped the post-Marr Cribs for their dense last ... Read more »| 27 Feb 2015 -
Music
Heems – Eat, Pray, Thug
Known for his wily mix of social criticism with silly referential humour as part of defunct rap outfit Das Racist, Himanshu Suri manages to crack the odd jok... Read more »| 26 Feb 2015 -
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Northwest Music News — Sounds From The Other City, Sways Records + more
Sounds From The Other City Reveal First Names... In a month of festival announcements, one of the Northwest's most cherished DIY ventures Sounds From T... Read more »| 26 Feb 2015 -
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of Montreal – Aureate Gloom
In the past, of Montreal have seen myriad reincarnations but Aureate Gloom isn’t worlds apart from the shambolic, hedonistic disco of 2013’s Lous... Read more »| 25 Feb 2015 -
Music
Swervedriver – I Wasn’t Born to Lose You
Some 18 years after protracted label dramas and a frosty reception to underrated fourth album 99th Dream saw Swervedriver quietly withdraw from the race, I W... Read more »| 25 Feb 2015