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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MusicScreaming Females – Rose Mountain
No sign of let-up for New Brunswick’s Screaming Females, who just can’t seem to gather a pile of irresistible melodies without submerging them in... Read more »| 05 Feb 2015 -
MusicThe Pop Group – Citizen Zombie
When The Pop Group first made their return from a decades-long hiatus, opening what would turn out to be Sonic Youth’s final UK shows around December o... Read more »| 05 Feb 2015 -
Music
Twerps – Range Anxiety
Antipodean jangle that borrows heavily from New Zealand’s finest guitar-manglers in all their scuffed glory, while still doffing its cap to the widescr... Read more »| 04 Feb 2015 -
MusicBlack Rivers – Black Rivers
It's tempting to retrospectively label Doves a quiet success story, given their lack of ego when compared with other Mancunian groups. There were never any s... Read more »| 04 Feb 2015 -
Music
Dominic Waxing Lyrical – Woodland Casual
Dominic Waxing Lyrical have waited so long (18 years) between albums that they're still quoting the long-dead Melody Maker on press releases. The better look... Read more »| 04 Feb 2015 -
Music
Peace – Happy People
Happy People is nothing we haven’t heard before: it’s shameless, straight-faced indie-pop, polished and filtered. But there’s a wayward spu... Read more »| 04 Feb 2015
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MusicTwo Gallants – We Are Undone
“If you weren’t always talking you might hear me speak,” sings Adam Stephens towards the end of Two Gallants’ fifth record, but he ne... Read more »| 04 Feb 2015 -
Music
Last Harbour – Caul
More dark matter from Manchester's Gizeh Records, the increasingly canny collective responsible of late for shadowy essentials from the likes of Ormonde and ... Read more »| 04 Feb 2015 -
Comedy
Jack Evans: Comedy Spotlight
The man at the helm of one of Manchester's finest/weirdest comedy nights considers a possible previous existence as a leech collector. Yum Read more »| 03 Feb 2015 -
MusicYoung Fathers confirm new album ‘White Men Are Black Men Too’
Mercury Prize and SAY Award-winning trio Young Fathers have confirmed the title of their second full-length LP – White Men Are Black Men Too. Recorded... Read more »| 03 Feb 2015 -
Theatre
The Slab Boys Revived
The Citizens Theatre celebrates its 70th anniversary with a revival of The Slab Boys from original creatives and stalwarts of Scottish theatre John Byrne and David Hayman Read more »| 03 Feb 2015 -
Theatre
Above the Belt: Touring in the Highlands and Islands
The Highlands and Islands are about more than their beautiful scenery. The Touring Network's Sam Eccles, promoter Jennie Macfie and Kieran Hurley talk about theatre and culture outside of the cities Read more »| 03 Feb 2015 -
Music
Ghostpoet @ Gullivers, Manchester, 29 January
With snowfall and Sound Control’s fifth birthday to contend with, there’s a fear early on tonight that Ghostpoet’s murky urban musings migh... Read more »| 03 Feb 2015 -
Comedy
Brendon Burns @ Lantern Theatre, 31 January
Burns starts his first ever Liverpool gig with a modicum of trepidation. He did, after all, receive death threats over five years ago for material ... Read more »| 03 Feb 2015 -
Theatre
Educating Rita @ Liverpool Playhouse
For the first time professionally in 13 years, and celebrating its 35th anniversary, Willy Russell’s Educating Rita returns to the stage; this time sta... Read more »| 03 Feb 2015