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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MusicAlbums of 2016 (#8): Anohni – Hopelessness
Hopeless times need music too. Anohni teamed up with OPN and HudMo to produce one of the most startling records of recent years Read more »| 28 Nov 2016 -
Music
Kate Tempest on Let Them Eat Chaos
The London writer and performer speaks about new album Let Them Eat Chaos, and the radical, positive power behind her thunderous words Read more »| 28 Nov 2016 -
MusicAlbums of 2016 (#9): Parquet Courts – Human Performance
Parquet Courts have released five records in five years – a feat achieved by few of their peers. Human Performance ticks all the right boxes Earl... Read more »| 28 Nov 2016 -
MusicEl Hombre Trajeado – Fast Diagonal
12 years after their last album, it’s remarkable how much of El Hombre Trajeado’s sound has carried over onto record number four. If 2004's ... Read more »| 28 Nov 2016 -
Film
The Films of 2016: Love, Death and Aliens
From Love & Friendship to Pablo Larrain's The Club (via sci-fi in Arrival and body horror in Evolution), our film team's ten favourite films of 2016. Read more »| 28 Nov 2016 -
Music
D.I.D – The State We're In
First noticed chanting “We are a mess, we are failures and we love it” with the cast of Skins back in the ancient past of 2011, D.I.D now return ... Read more »| 28 Nov 2016
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MusicAlbums of 2016 (#10): Beyoncé – Lemonade
For her sixth album, Beyoncé once again offered another way in, and this time around, the ambition of the accompanying visuals advanced the whole a league beyond the sum of its parts Read more »| 28 Nov 2016 -
Film
Chi-Raq
Spike Lee is back with a passionate and energy-filled piece of political filmmaking Read more »| 28 Nov 2016 -
MusicBeans on Toast – A Spanner in the Works
Say what you like about 2016 but if nothing else it was the year Billy Bragg, the last great political troubadour, made an album about trains. Where, you mig... Read more »| 28 Nov 2016 -
Film
Bleed for This
The inspiring story of boxer Vinny Pazienza makes for an uninspiring boxing movie Read more »| 28 Nov 2016 -
Film
Wes Anderson creates beautiful Christmas short
Wes Anderson has made an ad for H&M featuring Adrien Brody, and it’s delightful Read more »| 28 Nov 2016 -
Film
Best Film Screenings in the North (26 Nov-2 Dec)
The best film events happening in the North this week, including Mark Cousin-Mogwai collaboration Atomic and folk horror classic The Blood on Satan's Claw Read more »| 26 Nov 2016 -
Theatre
Rambert – Ghost Dances, Frames and Tomorrow
The iconic Ghost Dances, [★★★★★] visceral, sinister and melancholic, with its meld of skeletal Ghosts and folk dancing Dead, still in its 36th year, holds it... Read more »| 26 Nov 2016 -
Books
Bella Mia by Donatella Di Pietrantonio
“Tomorrow is our birthday. The third, since.” Di Pietrantonio’s second novel is set against the backdrop of a natural disaster – ... Read more »| 25 Nov 2016 -
Music
Honeyblood @ O2 Academy 2, Liverpool, 18 Nov
Liverpool three-piece Trudy and the Romance kick things off with disjointed riffs accompanied by doo-wop style vocals and raucous, sludgy guitar, creati... Read more »| 25 Nov 2016