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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TheatreThe Lyceum at 50: A Theatre Celebration
Mark Thomson on Waiting for Godot, funding cuts and The Royal Lyceum Theatre's 50th anniversary. Read more »| 11 Sep 2015 -
MusicGirl Band's Daniel Fox on Holding Hands With Jamie
Dublin’s Girl Band are not a girl band. Nor a rock band, or even a neo-grunge band. So what are they? Read more »| 10 Sep 2015 -
ArtHOME announces Oct 2015-Mar 2016 season
Manchester multi-arts venue HOME announces its Autumn/Winter season of art, theatre and film Read more »| 10 Sep 2015 -
BooksStirred Poetry on new writing & feminism
The Skinny talks to Manchester poetry collective Stirred Poetry about new writing, equality and speaking out Read more »| 10 Sep 2015 -
ComedyPaul Smith: Comedy Spotlight
The Hot Water Comedy compere talks Gandhi, geese and crumbling in front of acting royalty Read more »| 10 Sep 2015 -
Books
Waiting for the Past by Les Murray
Les Murray's new short story collection is sumptuously satisfying for the patient reader. Read more »| 09 Sep 2015
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Music
WHITE rise from Kassidy and The Low Miffs' ashes
WHITE are a far more colourful band than the moniker might suggest. With just a couple of singles under their belt and former members of Kassidy and The Low Miffs in their number, just how have the Glasgow five-piece gelled? Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
Music
The Spills – Collecting Dust
Caught somewhere between a fondness for Pavement and their apparent desire to be Mclusky, this Wakefield quartet find their heads tilted towards the nonchala... Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
Music
Mac DeMarco @ O2 ABC Glasgow, 7 September
Glasgow may have just killed Mac DeMarco. The rambunctious singer has launched himself above the eager masses pressed against the barrier of the O2 ABC stage... Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
Clubs
Helena Hauff: DJ Chart
Eight of Hamburg DJ Helene Hauff's favourites, from Privacy to Morphology to Unit Moebius. Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
Art
Chinese art from the 1970s to now @ Whitworth
I’m looking at a vast monochromatic screen print, Untitled (Three Leaders) (1989), a trio of figures with a familiar and foreboding Chairman Mao at the... Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
Music
Sealings – I'm A Bastard
Moody, minimalist, mal-illuminated… well yes, we may have been travelled this way before. Yet however derivative such disenfranchised narratives can a... Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
Music
Dark Buddha Rising – Inversum
Following on from 2013's sprawling Dakhmandal, Finland's Dark Buddha Rising return with a new lineup for fifth LP Inversum. It's an album of two halves; comp... Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
Music
The Garden Party 2015: The Review
With Dutch Uncles, LoneLady and many more in tow, Leeds Garden Party is an end-of-summer excursion, one wistful look back before the autumn arrives. Read more »| 08 Sep 2015 -
Music
Natalie Prass @ Electric Circus, Edinburgh, 2 September
There’s a Venn diagram somewhere that overlaps folk-rock with that tedious signifier of overly-tasteful coffee-tableism known as ‘AOR’. On ... Read more »| 08 Sep 2015