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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MusicSole & DJ Pain 1 – Death Drive
Over beats by DJ Pain 1, America's most fiercely independent rapper is on fiery form, expressing contempt for contemporary hip-hop's avaricious, money-grabbi... Read more »| 18 Jun 2014 -
Music
Fucked Up / Lower @ Gorilla, Manchester, 15 June
The tension: it’s bound up in every single one of Anton Rothstein’s rippling, complex drum patterns. Why settle for a standard punk rock beat whe... Read more »| 17 Jun 2014 -
Art
Own Art: Videos
This month sees the launch of a new extension of the Own Art column, branching out into the multimedia world in the form of a bespoke video series exploring ... Read more »| 17 Jun 2014 -
MusicMoebius Story Leidecker – Snowghost Pieces
The new album by Cluster co-founder Dieter Moebius in collaboration with American composers and electronic producers Tim Story and Jon Leidecker (Negati... Read more »| 17 Jun 2014 -
MusicDemdike Stare / Nate Young @ The Art School, 14 June
There’s a point in Wolf Eyes alum Nate Young’s set where he seems satisfied with the unearthly, feedback-drenched howls of static and the rumblin... Read more »| 17 Jun 2014 -
MusicTelevision @ O2 ABC, Glasgow, 14 June
Despite the billing, Television don’t actually perform Marquee Moon tonight – not exactly. Yes, all eight of its songs feature, but the tracklist... Read more »| 17 Jun 2014
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MusicWye Oak @ King Tut's, Glasgow, 13 June
Tonight, Wye Oak’s sound echoes their stage setup: lots of space, lots of room to breathe. The Baltimore duo lean heavily on new album Shriek, letting ... Read more »| 17 Jun 2014 -
Music
Glass Animals – ZABA
“Put your hand down boy, welcome to my zoo,” beckons Glass Animals frontman Dave Bayley on Toes, one of many ornate tracks in the Oxford quartet'... Read more »| 16 Jun 2014 -
Art
The Skinny Showcase: Emily Tilzey
The Skinny Showcase: Emily Tilzey Studying Illustration with Animation, Emily Tilzey is currently in her third year at Manchester School of Art. “A l... Read more »| 16 Jun 2014 -
Film
Camille Claudel 1915
The contemporary king of grim French cinema, director Bruno Dumont’s latest, the stark Camille Claudel 1915, is based on personal letters and medical r... Read more »| 16 Jun 2014 -
Music
Parklife @ Heaton Park, Manchester, 7-8 June
This year's Parklife, its second edition at its new home, welcomes a slew of rookies and big guns as Gold Panda, Foals, Warpaint, Public Enemy and Tha Doggfather himself assume control of Heaton Park for two days Read more »| 13 Jun 2014 -
Film
Devil's Knot
So lurid and bizarre were the details of the West Memphis Three trial that a dramatisation of events to accompany the several documentaries on the subject wa... Read more »| 13 Jun 2014 -
Film
Nashville
Nashville, Robert Altman’s 1975 masterpiece set over five days at a country and western festival, is full of contradictions. It’s an epic, runnin... Read more »| 13 Jun 2014 -
Music
Angel Olsen / Jaye Bartell @ Mono, Glasgow, 9 Jun
Performing solo for the most part, yet blessed with the kind of oaken baritone that can enthral a crowd unaided, Jaye Bartell gently starts tonight’s b... Read more »| 13 Jun 2014 -
Film
Oculus
A malevolent killer mirror runs amok in suburbanites’ psyches in writer-director Mike Flanagan’s very silly but really quite effective horror. Ka... Read more »| 12 Jun 2014