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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MusicGlasgow's Ripcord collective unleash charity punk compilation
Glasgow-based punk collective Ripcord have released a compilation album to raise money for mental health charities. Featuring Scotland's high-speed melodici... Read more »| 09 Mar 2015 -
MusicLeader of the Pack: Wolf Alice's Ellie Rowsell interviewed
As they prepare to release their debut album, Ellie Rowsell tells The Skinny why Wolf Alice have little time for indie pop convention Read more »| 09 Mar 2015 -
Film
Maidan
Sergei Loznitsa’s Maidan is a film that achieves a visceral sense of immediacy by keeping its distance. Shooting from judiciously chosen vantage points... Read more »| 09 Mar 2015 -
Theatre
Autumn Portaits
Autumn Portraits begins as one might expect, with puppeteer Eric Bass donning a mask and silently bending the will and the actions of one of his many, many p... Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
TheatreAnd Then He Ate Me @ Traverse
Strange, fantastical and dark, And Then He Ate Me is a fairytale for the stage that bites back. Created by the award-winning French company Velo Theatre, thi... Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
Theatre
Dance of The Magnetic Ballerina @ Traverse
From an achromatic gloom, the figure of Andrea Miltnerova materialises, on a contained platform adrift in the middle of the enormous Traverse One stage. Evok... Read more »| 06 Mar 2015
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Music
FutureEverything: LoneLady @ Soup Kitchen, Manchester, 26 February
FutureEverything sure has a knack for picking the right venues. On the first night of this year’s edition of the city’s premier tech festival, th... Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
Theatre
Anna Karenina @ Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
The Royal Exchange kicks off its 2015 season with a brand new adaptation of Anna Karenina. After rave reviews and record sales for Maxine Peake's Hamlet... Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
ClubsDJ Chart: Samuel Deep
Sylvestro, maker of hard-hitting house via garage and grime and founder of Utrecht-based SlapFunk Records, gives us ten of his current favourites Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
Film
Life of Riley
Alain Resnais’ final film, Life of Riley, premiered just three weeks before the director’s passing. An adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn's play o... Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
Clubs
Mr Tophat & Art Alfie Music Playlist: Guest Selector
The Karlovak duo go halves on eight choice LPs ahead of the ninth instalment in their mesmerising KVK series Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
Comedy
Susan Calman: Lady Like
Coming to see a comedian close to their home turf means you may be privy to any number of DVD extras that won’t come out at any other point during the ... Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
Books
Creature Creators: The Critter Shed publish their first comic
The founders of The Critter Shed publishing collective explain why they decided to put out their first comic Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
Comedy
Sam & Tom: Comedy Spotlight
Crashing kids' parties and willing to face a folkloric cannibal half-beast in battle, Sam & Tom are the most eager new beavers on the scene Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
Books
Northwest Book Highlights – March 2015
The beginning of spring brings some anarchic spoken word, an interactive storytelling experience and the return of a great novelist Read more »| 06 Mar 2015