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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BooksPoetry News – Scotland, February 2016
As the year picks up pace, our poetry columnist looks at live spoken word events around Scotland in February, and provides five top tips for budding performers staking their place on the stage Read more »| 04 Feb 2016 -
MusicCavalier Song – Blezard
Where to even begin with Blezard? It’s a unique collection of guitar-led sonic explorations. You’d hesitate to label it noise- or post-rock, but ... Read more »| 04 Feb 2016 -
ComedyHorace and Pete
Louis CK's unexpected sitcom is more like Chekhov than Cheers. The first episode of Horace and Pete, a new sitcom by Louis CK, was released almost entirely ... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Clubs
DJ Chart: AnD
One of Manchester's finest techno double acts, Andy and Dim decode their industrial musical radar Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
BooksNorthwest Book Highlights – February 2016
In the literary world, the month of love ushers in a spiritual guide about zombies and an examination of the body. What could be more romantic? Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Books
Amy Liptrot interview: on writing The Outrun
Amy Liptrot’s debut, The Outrun, has already marked her as a major new voice of 2016. The Skinny catches up with her days after the book’s releas... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016
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Books
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
Amy Liptrot’s The Outrun is a beautifully written memoir about alcoholism, recovery and life at the extremes. Ten years after leaving Orkney’s re... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Art
AL and AL at HOME
Ahead of their new solo exhibition at HOME we talk to artists AL and AL about everything from Francis Crick's panspermia theory (us neither) to an Alan Turing dreamscape populated by anorexic Terminators (that's more like it) Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Music
Lake Street Dive – Side Pony
As comfortable playing the heartbroken as the heartbreaker, Lake Street Dive singer Rachael Price, with gospel pipes and an old-school jazz sensibility, mana... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Clubs
Northwest Clubbing Highlights – February 2016
A full calendar this month as your lifeless post-New Year's corpse starts to request some much-needed animation Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Theatre
Kate Bornstein at Queer Contact
As Queer Contact gears up to deliver its eighth annual festival celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender arts and culture in Greater Manchester, we catch up with gender outlaw and festival performer Kate Bornstein Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Clubs
Scottish Clubbing Highlights – February 2016
February's clubbing schedule boasts the likes of Carl Craig, DMX Krew and The Black Madonna. Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Music
Holy Esque – At Hope’s Ravine
They’ve kept us waiting, but it's been worth it. At Hope’s Ravine is an assured jolt of broad-canvas, nouveau-post-punk pristineness: part-T... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
ClubsDJ Chart: Big Miz
Following the release of the blinding Safari Park Nonsense EP, Offbeat's Chris McFarlane aka Big Miz gives us a peek inside his record bag. Earning early ac... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
Music
Cavern of Anti-Matter – Void Beats/Invocation Trex
It’s been seven long years since Marxist ambient-boogie machine Stereolab decided to go on an indefinite hiatus, leaving a small army of vinyl junkies ... Read more »| 03 Feb 2016