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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MusicLive music in Manchester this week: 14-20 Sep
Local psych-rock troupes, Canadian grungemakers and festivals aplenty: summer may be well and truly over but Manchester's live scene is as busy as ever Read more »| 14 Sep 2016 -
MusicDundee DIY Newsletter: September
Derrick Johnston runs DIY institution Make-That-A-Take – he puts out records, puts on shows, and once a year he throws Dundee a whole damn music f... Read more »| 14 Sep 2016 -
ComedySpotlight: Simon Lomas
The Yorkshire New Comedian of the Year recalls some excellent backstage nibbles Read more »| 14 Sep 2016 -
Film
The legacy of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
Psycho returns to Manchester this Halloween in the form of Psycho Live, with an orchestral score provided by Manchester Camerata. But Alfred Hitchcock's 1960... Read more »| 14 Sep 2016 -
Music
Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch
Released only a year after career highlight Apocalypse, Girl, Norwegian experimentalist Jenny Hval’s latest album shows her eschewing sonic grandness t... Read more »| 14 Sep 2016 -
ArtAlice Neel @ Talbot Rice Gallery
The Subject and Me aims to narrate Alice Neel’s (1900-1984) turbulent life through her later paintings and drawings. Neel is showcased as a subject and... Read more »| 14 Sep 2016
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Film
Tommy Wiseau: Hipster Irony Created a Monster
The “world's worst filmmaker may censor Sydney Underground Film Festival” reads a headline in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, and it’s all your fault Read more »| 13 Sep 2016 -
Music
Pinegrove @ The Hug & Pint, 7 Sep
It’s heaving in The Hug & Pint tonight. Perhaps it’s the incremental hype built up by Pinegrove’s burgeoning reputation as fine tunesmi... Read more »| 13 Sep 2016 -
TheatreAutumn theatre highlights in the North
Autumn is always a busy time for theatre. Here's our guide to the season's highlights Read more »| 13 Sep 2016 -
Books
Graeme Macrae Burnet makes Man Booker Shortlist
Today the prestigious Man Booker Prize was announced, with a novel from tiny Scottish publisher Saraband making the cut ahead of work by JM Coetzee and AL Kennedy Read more »| 13 Sep 2016 -
Books
Graphic Content: Thought Bubble 2016
Comics fans will gather in Leeds in November for the tenth anniversary of Thought Bubble festival – the UK’s biggest celebration of sequential ar... Read more »| 13 Sep 2016 -
Film
Michael Barbieri: from Little Men to Spider-Man
From a Sundance indie to the Spider-Man reboot, it's been an eventful six months for emerging actor Michael Barbieri. We speak to the 14-year-old about keepi... Read more »| 13 Sep 2016 -
Theatre
Shifting the stage: Transposing Theatre’s Canon
As a West African transposition of The Duchess of Malfi comes to Leeds, one writer considers the possibilities and pitfalls that come with reimagining the We... Read more »| 13 Sep 2016 -
Art
This Week in Scottish Art: 13-19 September
Across Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow, this week brings great new exhibitions and events including Embassy's graduate show, the largest show to date of talent Katy Dove, as well as new exhibitions from Mary Mary, Koppe Astner and more ... Read more »| 13 Sep 2016 -
Film
What to Watch this Week (12-19 Sep)
The best films to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including Taika Waititi's joyous Hunt for the Wilderpeople and ... Read more »| 12 Sep 2016