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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MusicThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 5 June
Joy Division – the video game; David Lynch announces second LP; Madlib speaks; The Smashing Pumpkins to expand The Aeroplane Flies High; new music from Palms, Beck, Wu-Tang Clan, Hot Chip and more; plus the latest festival and tour news Read more »| 05 Jun 2013 -
ClubsHorse Meat Disco: Get Mucky
Forget flash-in-the-pan scandals: Horse Meat Disco have been dishing up disco dirt for a decade. We catch up with the crew's James Hillard and Severino Panzetta as they prepare to bring their party to Manchester Read more »| 05 Jun 2013 -
TheatreSome Other Mother @ various venues, 6-27 Jun
Writer AJ Taudevin, whose new play Some Other Mother is part of Refugee Week Scotland, is unafraid to use her work as a sounding board and a rallyi... Read more »| 05 Jun 2013 -
Theatre
Venue of the Month: The Lass O’Gowrie, Manchester
A pub with a snug and a 30-seater theatre, The Lass O’Gowrie is at the heart of Manchester's fringe, and dedicated to doing things a little differently Read more »| 05 Jun 2013 -
Comedy
Judah Friedlander: Greatest Karate Person in the World, Ever
When we were offered karate-themed interview time with 30 Rock star Judah Friedlander there was clearly only one man up to the task – Hasselhoff interrogator Fred Fletch Read more »| 05 Jun 2013 -
Music
Hero Worship: Jim Jarmusch
Sparrow and the Workshop's Jill O'Sullivan muses on the iconic indie director's ear for a good film score Read more »| 05 Jun 2013
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ArtAndrea Cotton and Naomi Lethbridge @ Paper Gallery, Manchester, until 15 Jun
For the sixth show at Manchester's Paper Gallery, Andrea Cotton exhibits alongside Naomi Lethbridge. Both artists are represented by the gallery, and have a ... Read more »| 05 Jun 2013 -
Theatre
Let The Right One In @ Dundee Rep, 5-29 Jun
The original was a dark, weighty slice of Swedish horror and the American adaptation was surprisingly competent. It begs the question: where is there left to... Read more »| 05 Jun 2013 -
Music
Rose Windows – The Sun Dogs
This Seattle septet anchor their sound in the shamanistic explorations and bruising riffs of psych and stoner rock: the sonic texture of The Sun Dogs&nb... Read more »| 05 Jun 2013 -
MusicSerengeti – Kenny Dennis LP
Serengeti's last LP for Anticon, C.A.R., had a refreshing sense of fun and humour to its loosely-scribbled hip-hop beats, with Jel and Odd Nosdam joining Ser... Read more »| 05 Jun 2013 -
Music
Palms – Palms
Despite escalating popularity at the time they called it quits, there’s a feeling that ISIS – not wishing to "push past the point of a digni... Read more »| 05 Jun 2013 -
Music
Dope Body survey June's singles
Prior to a night of fierce sweating, Baltimore noise-rockers (and March 'Track of the Month' champions) Dope Body try to muster some love for this month’s offerings, and debate whether or not that’s a marimba in there Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Art
Matthew Denniss: Future Imperfect
A joint exhibition at Manchester's Bureau gallery, The Utopian Buck Stops Here sees Matthew Denniss inspect the dreams – and failings – of modernist architecture Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Music
Stag & Dagger 2013: Glasgow, 18 May
Though its sights were initially set on a healthy mix of hotly tipped buzz bands and home-grown underdogs, Glasgow's annual Stag & Dagger festival has ti... Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Art
Carol Bove @ The Common Guild, until 29 Jun
Carol Bove’s show The Foamy Saliva of a Horse seems in many ways typical of Common Guild fare. The installation takes various small-scale objects, made... Read more »| 04 Jun 2013