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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MusicArctic Monkeys – AM
More than ever, bands talk up new releases like commission-hungry salesmen but Matt Helders’ contention that the Arctics' fifth is “the album we&... Read more »| 29 Aug 2013 -
MusicDelorean – Apar
For a band named after a time machine, Delorean could do with working on their timing. Apar arrives at the tail end of a summer it could, in another universe... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
MusicDucktails @ Soup Kitchen, Manchester, 23 Aug
Though Ducktails were brought into the world as a solo project, Real Estate's Matthew Mondanile hosts tonight's show with a full band. The already intimate s... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
Music
The Asphodells – Remixes
One of this year's most convincing and enduring albums thus far, Andrew Weatherall and Timothy J. Fairplay's Ruled By Passion, Destroyed By Lust (as The Asph... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
MusicRandolph's Leap – Real Anymore
It’s tough to dislike a band like Randolph’s Leap. Their bright, a-bit-folk-but-kinda-indie-rock sound, and sharp as a box of self-reverenti... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
Music
Múm – Smilewound
Six albums in, and Múm’s combination of live instrumentation, ethereal harmonies and digital fixings has birthed another cracker. Opener Toothwh... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013
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Theatre
Autumn Theatre: The Quiet After the Storm
With critics passed out in the hallways and tourist levels plummeting from the surge the Fringe causes, it’s very easy to assume theatre and other performance arts suddenly come to a complete standstill come September Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
Music
Volcano Choir – Repave
Emerging in For Emma…’s slipstream, Volcano Choir’s 2009 debut couldn’t help but be framed in relation to Justin Vernon’s othe... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
Music
Goldfrapp – Tales of Us
Whether it stomps on your heart or mops your fevered brow will depend on where it finds you at the time, but Tales of Us is capable of both, so beware. If 20... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
Music
Esmerine – Dalmak
Initially, the first outing from Constellation mainstays Esmerine since 2011’s La Lechuza signals no departures from their chamber sound: opener Learni... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
Theatre
Dostoyevsky @ Citizens
This September sees Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment explode into the Citizens Theatre. Written for the stage by Chris Hannan, and directed by Domin... Read more »| 27 Aug 2013 -
Music
Glasvegas – Later... When the TV Turns to Static
It’s not often a band wanes with a curve as smooth as that shown by Glasvegas, descending from heart-conquering bright young things to Later…&rs... Read more »| 27 Aug 2013 -
Music
Jessy Lanza – Pull My Hair Back
Co-produced by Jeremy Greenspan of Junior Boys, Canadian Jessy Lanza's debut for Hyperdub continues to rehabilitate 90s R&B as pioneered by the likes of ... Read more »| 27 Aug 2013 -
Music
Lorn – Debris
Lorn confirms in just four tracks why he is one of the most forward-thinking and intelligent producers in the bass music spectrum. Where Ask The Dust was by ... Read more »| 27 Aug 2013 -
Film
Upstream Colour
Dense, maddening, oblique but oh so beautiful, Shane Carruth’s long-awaited follow-up to the similarly bizarre Primer will certainly leave his audience... Read more »| 27 Aug 2013