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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ComedySpotlight: Adam Rowe
This plucky young Liverpool comedian (of the year! In 2011) is happiest when playing to a crowd of baying hyenas and friendly ghosts Read more »| 03 Sep 2014 -
Theatre
Smack! Bang! Cabaret! @ Henry's Cellar Bar, Edinburgh, from 10 Sep
Starting on 10 September, Smack! Bang! Cabaret! plans to become a weekly fixture in every cabaret-lover's calendar. Dive – Edinburgh's premier LGBT que... Read more »| 03 Sep 2014 -
TheatreArika 14: Make a Way Out of No Way
Experimental cross platform programmers Arika return to the Tramway with part 6 of their episodic series of multi-arts festivals, drilling down into questions of identity, gender and culture Read more »| 03 Sep 2014 -
Music
Eureka California – Crunch
Jake Ward is a clever so-and-so. Over-educated, over-stimulated and over it all – the classic American slacker tale, and one that can feel overdone whe... Read more »| 03 Sep 2014 -
MusicThe Vaselines – V Is For Vaselines
With their second album in five years, Kurt Cobain’s one-time “favourite songwriters in the whole world” can now claim to actually be more ... Read more »| 03 Sep 2014 -
MusicBronto Skylift – Date with a Ghoul
From the opening bars of Bird Catcher, Bronto Skylift grab you by the scruff of the neck and pin you against the wall. Ordinarily, when confronted with this ... Read more »| 03 Sep 2014
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Music
David Thomas Broughton & Juice Voice Ensemble – Sliding the Same Way
It’s hard to feel totally at ease during Sliding the Same Way. Maybe it’s due to lyrics like “I killed a man with a broken glass” in ... Read more »| 03 Sep 2014 -
ArtYou Would Cry Too If It Happened to You: Bob and Roberta Smith's Art Party
Artist Bob and Roberta Smith discusses his newly released film Art Party and the impact of changes to arts education – and we invite 12 artists, writers and critics from across the UK to respond to the film, the art and the afterparties they inspired Read more »| 03 Sep 2014 -
Film
Trump in the Rough: Anthony Baxter on A Dangerous Game
Anthony Baxter's A Dangerous Game revisits the Menie estate and the residents whose David v Goliath battle with property tycoon Donald Trump he documented in You've been Trumped. He explains how he found similar battles happening around the world Read more »| 03 Sep 2014 -
Theatre
Beckett Trilogy: Not I, Footfalls and Rockaby @ The Lowry, Salford, 23-27 Sep
There are few who dare to approach a Samuel Beckett play and even fewer who do his work justice, yet Lisa Dwan has attracted critical acclaim for her perform... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
Books
Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara
Hard to believe half a century’s passed since the publication of Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems – so named because most of the book was w... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
Theatre
Venue of the Month: The Lucy Davis Vaults
Down the dark, dark stairs there was a dark, dark cellar... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
Film
Art Party
As a piece of filmmaking, the strengths and flaws of Art Party are very much intertwined. In depicting Smith and cohorts on their real-life trip to 2013... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
Music
Nehruviandoom – Nehruviandoom (Sound of the Son)
The pairing of up-and-coming rap sensation Bishop Nehru and metal-faced veteran MF Doom might seem a strange one – Nehru's been championed by big ... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
Film
Finding Fela!
The documentaries that roll off the Alex Gibney production line tend to be at their best when the filmmaker is investigating a big story. Films like Mea Maxi... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014