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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ClubsZenker Brothers Music Playlist: Guest Selector
The Munich-based brüder chip in with eight cherished LPs ahead of the imminent release of their debut album Immersion on Ilian Tape Read more »| 06 Feb 2015 -
ArtRachel Levine: Soft Chaos
Winner of The Skinny Award at RSA New Contemporaries 2014, Rachel Levine describes the "small things, shifts and turns" that have informed her upcoming show at the CCA Read more »| 06 Feb 2015 -
MusicCalifornia X – Nights in the Dark
“Please be kind,” begs Lemmy Gurtowsky, but there’s really no need. See, California X trade in the simple art of riffs’n’hooks,... Read more »| 06 Feb 2015 -
Music
Duke Garwood – Heavy Love
Album number six from the Brit soul man resolves a backstory nigh on three decades in the making. After working solo and collaboratively – his contacts... Read more »| 06 Feb 2015 -
Clubs
DJ Chart: Ben Sims
The self-proclaimed ageing B-boy and vinyl junkie lets rip with ten tracks that have been dominating his sets over recent months Read more »| 05 Feb 2015 -
TheatreLeanne Best: Reviving Rita in Liverpool
Leanne Best talks to The Skinny during rehearsals for the return of Educating Rita to the Liverpool Playhouse Read more »| 05 Feb 2015
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Music
Screaming Females – Rose Mountain
No sign of let-up for New Brunswick’s Screaming Females, who just can’t seem to gather a pile of irresistible melodies without submerging them in... Read more »| 05 Feb 2015 -
Music
The Pop Group – Citizen Zombie
When The Pop Group first made their return from a decades-long hiatus, opening what would turn out to be Sonic Youth’s final UK shows around December o... Read more »| 05 Feb 2015 -
MusicTwerps – Range Anxiety
Antipodean jangle that borrows heavily from New Zealand’s finest guitar-manglers in all their scuffed glory, while still doffing its cap to the widescr... Read more »| 04 Feb 2015 -
Music
Black Rivers – Black Rivers
It's tempting to retrospectively label Doves a quiet success story, given their lack of ego when compared with other Mancunian groups. There were never any s... Read more »| 04 Feb 2015 -
Music
Dominic Waxing Lyrical – Woodland Casual
Dominic Waxing Lyrical have waited so long (18 years) between albums that they're still quoting the long-dead Melody Maker on press releases. The better look... Read more »| 04 Feb 2015 -
Music
Peace – Happy People
Happy People is nothing we haven’t heard before: it’s shameless, straight-faced indie-pop, polished and filtered. But there’s a wayward spu... Read more »| 04 Feb 2015 -
Music
Two Gallants – We Are Undone
“If you weren’t always talking you might hear me speak,” sings Adam Stephens towards the end of Two Gallants’ fifth record, but he ne... Read more »| 04 Feb 2015 -
Music
Last Harbour – Caul
More dark matter from Manchester's Gizeh Records, the increasingly canny collective responsible of late for shadowy essentials from the likes of Ormonde and ... Read more »| 04 Feb 2015 -
Comedy
Jack Evans: Comedy Spotlight
The man at the helm of one of Manchester's finest/weirdest comedy nights considers a possible previous existence as a leech collector. Yum Read more »| 03 Feb 2015