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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BooksBenjamin Markovits: Class War in Rust Belt America
Likened to a season of The Wire scripted by JM Coetzee, You Don't Have to Live Like This is an explosive picture of gentrification amongst Detroit's urban decay. We catch up with its James Tait Black Prize winning author Benjamin Markovits Read more »| 12 Sep 2016 -
FilmOne More Time With Feeling
Nick Cave has always felt untouchable, like some otherworldly entity you can never really get close to. In One More Time With Feeling, for once he feels... Read more »| 12 Sep 2016 -
Film
I, Daniel Blake
A typically powerful polemic from Loach that speaks directly to the audience's heart Read more »| 12 Sep 2016 -
MusicNick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
Nick Cave takes his deepest journey yet on Skeleton Tree, a solemn fugue on death, grief, yearning and both sides of mortality’s coin. Read more »| 12 Sep 2016 -
Clubs
Dutch Hustle: A Chat With Detroit Swindle
Amsterdam-based duo Detroit Swindle take time out from a busy touring schedule to discuss paying homage to house music, an upcoming show at FLY's Edinburgh Open Air Festival, and a forthcoming release featuring a UK electronic icon Read more »| 12 Sep 2016 -
Music
How To Dress Well – Care
Tom Krell has long been preoccupied with matters of the heart. As How To Dress Well, his first three albums traversed seriously rocky emotional terrain;... Read more »| 12 Sep 2016
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MusicFrankie Cosmos @ Stereo, Sep 5
"I'm - we're - Frankie Cosmos," announces Greta Kline, as her three band members settle themselves behind their instruments; a visual reminder that everythin... Read more »| 09 Sep 2016 -
Film
The key films of Brian De Palma
New documentary De Palma, from Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow, lets New Hollywood survivor Brian De Palma talk through the ups and downs of his career. Ahead... Read more »| 09 Sep 2016 -
MusicLeeds DIY scene newsletter: September 2016
Plenty to check out this month, with Leeds Zine Fair providing a superb opening affair ahead of a busy few weeks of unmissable gigs, starring Unwave, Thee MVP's, Syslack and more... Read more »| 09 Sep 2016 -
Film
Best Film Screenings in the North (9-16 Sep)
The best film events happening in Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds this week, including a tribute to Antonia Bird at HOME, Manchester and Kathryn Bigelow's fi... Read more »| 09 Sep 2016 -
Film
Trailer for Ben Wheatley's Free Fire released
Bullets and blood fly in the first trailer for Ben Wheatley's star-studded crime movie Free Fire Read more »| 09 Sep 2016 -
Comedy
Greg McHugh on Gary Tank Commander
Gary Tank Commander powers into the SSE Hydro next month; we talk to its creator Greg McHugh Read more »| 09 Sep 2016 -
Music
Guest Selector: Lou Barlow of Dinosaur Jr
As Dinosaur Jr prepare to play Liverpool Music Week and Beacons Metro alongside a host of local talent, we ask the band's Lou Barlow to tell us about his own hometown heroes Read more »| 09 Sep 2016 -
Clubs
Guest Selector: Theo Kottis
Edinburgh's emerging talent shares the records that have shaped his taste in music, ahead sets at FLY CLUB Open Air Festival in Edinburgh and at Manchester's Warehouse Project Read more »| 09 Sep 2016 -
Film
Watch the trailer for Ben Affleck’s Live by Night
Following the much maligned Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Ben Affleck is back behind the camera for the fourth time with gangster picture Live by Night... Read more »| 09 Sep 2016