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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MusicFolk Like Us: Aidan Moffat on Where You're Meant to Be
It may have started life as a tour diary – a celebration of traditional Scottish folk music, looking for a story – but as Aidan Moffat explains, new film Where You’re Meant to Be discovers much more Read more »| 04 Feb 2016 -
TheatreKaty Cavanagh and Colin Connor on Two 2
As Bolton Octagon theatre plays host to a double bill of Jim Cartwright's plays, we sit down with the actors, Katy Cavanagh and Colin Connor Read more »| 04 Feb 2016 -
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Matisse: Works to Know by Heart @ Tate Liverpool
As the physical effects of age take hold, an artist’s work must necessarily shift and change accordingly. In 1914, at the age of 72, Henri Matisse unde... Read more »| 04 Feb 2016 -
MusicVieux Farka Touré @ Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, 29 Jan
Following in the footsteps of an iconic musical father is no easy task, as the likes of Ziggy Marley, Julian Lennon and Teddy Thompson will attest. It’... Read more »| 04 Feb 2016 -
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Sennen – First Light
Named after a track on Ride’s Today Forever EP, Sennen’s past is not necessarily an indicator of the present. Yes, the band’s fifth LP surf... Read more »| 04 Feb 2016 -
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Steve Mason – Meet The Humans
Steve Mason's third solo album under his own name finds the erstwhile Fifer embracing a folktronica style familiar from those Beta Band days. There's a move ... Read more »| 04 Feb 2016
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Books
Poetry News – Scotland, February 2016
As the year picks up pace, our poetry columnist looks at live spoken word events around Scotland in February, and provides five top tips for budding performers staking their place on the stage Read more »| 04 Feb 2016 -
Music
Cavalier Song – Blezard
Where to even begin with Blezard? It’s a unique collection of guitar-led sonic explorations. You’d hesitate to label it noise- or post-rock, but ... Read more »| 04 Feb 2016 -
ComedyHorace and Pete
Louis CK's unexpected sitcom is more like Chekhov than Cheers. The first episode of Horace and Pete, a new sitcom by Louis CK, was released almost entirely ... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
ClubsDJ Chart: AnD
One of Manchester's finest techno double acts, Andy and Dim decode their industrial musical radar Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Books
Northwest Book Highlights – February 2016
In the literary world, the month of love ushers in a spiritual guide about zombies and an examination of the body. What could be more romantic? Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Books
Amy Liptrot interview: on writing The Outrun
Amy Liptrot’s debut, The Outrun, has already marked her as a major new voice of 2016. The Skinny catches up with her days after the book’s releas... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
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The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
Amy Liptrot’s The Outrun is a beautifully written memoir about alcoholism, recovery and life at the extremes. Ten years after leaving Orkney’s re... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
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AL and AL at HOME
Ahead of their new solo exhibition at HOME we talk to artists AL and AL about everything from Francis Crick's panspermia theory (us neither) to an Alan Turing dreamscape populated by anorexic Terminators (that's more like it) Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
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Lake Street Dive – Side Pony
As comfortable playing the heartbroken as the heartbreaker, Lake Street Dive singer Rachael Price, with gospel pipes and an old-school jazz sensibility, mana... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016