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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TheatreTipping The Velvet @ The Lyceum, Edinburgh, 7 Nov
Sarah Waters’ debut novel is so strongly characterised by the unique voice and experiences of heroine Nancy Astley that adapting it for the s... Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
MusicBeans on Toast – Rolling Up the Hill
As ever, Beans on Toast, AKA Jay McAllister, serves up his homespun, ramshackle folk with a side order of spiked, stick-it-to-the-man polemic. Words come at ... Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
ArtLucy Parker @ Rhubaba
Lucy Parker presents a year's research into the illicit practice of blacklisting employees in the construction industry. It's an informative, timely and interestingly framed exhibition of her gathered materials. Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
Comedy
Christmas Lectures return to The Stand
Andrew Learmonth talks to The Skinny ahead of The Christmas Lectures comedy gigs taking place at The Stand. Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
Film
Trainwreck
Amy Schumer’s spiky humour is diluted in this redemptive rom-com Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
Art
Liverpool & Manchester Christmas Art Gift Guide
Looking for a unique gift for that notoriously hard-to-buy-for friend or relative? Then check out some of Manchester and Liverpool's best independent arts and crafts markets Read more »| 03 Dec 2015
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BooksForgotten Women
This month biographer Rachel Holmes will be discussing Eleanor Marx, a feminist literary translator whose legacy quickly diminished. We trace a familiar pattern of female writers linked to male prestige, and wonder why so many have been lost in history Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
TheatreThe Theatre of Horror: The Haunting of Hill House
The ghost story is a Christmas tradition – but how about a Hammer horror-influenced stage show? As The Haunting of Hill House opens at Liverpool Playho... Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
Music
Northwest Music News – 3 Dec: Kiran Leonard, Howes
A new release bonanza this week, with new records out or on the way from Kiran Leonard, Howes, Locean and more. Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
Music
Aucan – Stelle Fisse
Far from the shy retiring geeks of electro stereotype, Italian trio Aucan have toured incessantly over the last few years, playing over 300 shows supporting ... Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
Film
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Guy Richie's big-screen adaptation of the 60s spy show fails to thrill Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
Film
Guy Maddin interview: we enter The Forbidden Room
Misfit director Guy Maddin brings cinema's past to life in new film The Forbidden Room. He tells us about trying to create a sense of disinhibited wonder on ... Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
Film
The Forbidden Room
The Forbidden Room delivers exhausting and overwhelming film experience Read more »| 03 Dec 2015 -
Books
Books for Christmas: A Literary Gift Guide
Books are the ideal gift, reflecting a certain intelligence upon the giver, and alluding with a sly wink that the recipient is the same. We look at the output of local publishers from Scotland and the Northwest to suggest the ideal literary Xmas gifts Read more »| 02 Dec 2015 -
Music
Ghostpoet @ The Art School, 25 November
The first thing you’ll notice about Ghostpoet’s performance (among a plethora of unique attributes) is that his right hand is always mid-air, miming cross stitch or occasionally picking fruit from a pear tree. Read more »| 02 Dec 2015