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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MusicUnder the Influence: Jupiter & Okwess International
This year Africa Oyé festival celebrates its 25th anniversary, and invites a number of artists who've played in the past back on stage. Eagerly anticipated returning act Jupiter & Okwess International tell us about some of their inspirations Read more »| 18 May 2017 -
TheatreDaphne Oram's Wonderful World of Sound @ Tron Theatre
The BBC Radiophonic Workshop is something that seems archaic in how forward-thinking it was. In days when the BBC itself has to justify its own right to exis... Read more »| 18 May 2017 -
Music
Danger Mouse, Run the Jewels & Big Boi share Baby Driver track
Chase Me comes from the soundtrack to the new film from Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright Groundbreaking producer Brian Burton, aka Dange... Read more »| 18 May 2017 -
MusicThe Cribs @ Manchester Academy, 12 May
There’s a moment at the end of the recorded version of Be Safe, one of The Cribs’ most powerful and widely-adored songs, when Ryan Jarman describ... Read more »| 18 May 2017 -
Music
Ducktails @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 10 May
Why exactly are Typhonian Highlife and James Ferraro touring with Ducktails? Despite both being occasionally labelled under the hypnagogic pop umbrella, they... Read more »| 18 May 2017 -
Music
Get to Know: Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation
With Dot to Dot festival fast approaching, we check in with everybody's favourite art-pop sensation Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation Read more »| 18 May 2017
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FilmArrested Development to return for a fifth season
The full cast, from Jeffrey Tambor to Alia Shawkat, is confirmed for the fifth season, and comments from the show's creator, Mitchell Hurwitz, suggest the show might take aim at a family even more narcissistic than the Bluths: the Trumps! Read more »| 17 May 2017 -
FilmSplit
Split, the latest from The Sixth Sense director M. Night Shyamalan, has as many fractured identities as its main character Dissociative identity disorder is... Read more »| 17 May 2017 -
Music
Low Four's 1st birthday with Jane Weaver, Francis Lung and OLA
Manchester's Low Four studio marks its first birthday with a live performance from Jane Weaver, Francis Lung and OLA, also launching its new record label, Low Four Recordings Read more »| 17 May 2017 -
Music
She Drew The Gun wins The GIT Award 2017
The sixth GIT Award, an annual celebration of Merseyside’s music scene, took place at the weekend with prizes going to She Drew The Gun, 24 Kitchen Street and Zuzu Read more »| 17 May 2017 -
Music
The Great Escape 2017: Shogun Q&A
Ahead of his debut performance at The Great Escape festival in Brighton, we catch up with Paisley artist Shogun Read more »| 17 May 2017 -
Film
The Other Side of Hope
Aki Kaurismäki is back with a bittersweet drama about the unlikely bond between a Syrian refugee and a Helsinki gambler Read more »| 17 May 2017 -
Clubs
Club nights in Manchester this week: 18-25 May
It's a relatively quiet week on Manchester's clubs scene in terms of big names – presumably bottling them all up 'til the bank holiday – but there's still plenty to dig, including another Fiktion night with beats from Portugal's Príncipe Discos label Read more »| 17 May 2017 -
Clubs
Sam Gellaitry @ Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh, 10 May
Witness – the midweek party-in-a-box at Sneaky Pete’s – continues the venue’s propensity to book big acts in small spaces by bringing... Read more »| 17 May 2017 -
Film
Mike Leigh's new film documents Peterloo Massacre
Cameras start rolling next week on Mike Leigh’s Peterloo The next film from British filmmaker Mike Leigh, the celebrated director of Secrets & Lie... Read more »| 17 May 2017