Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
-
ArtLet’s Get Together, Yeah Yeah Yeah: Clifford Owens at Cornerhouse
Clifford Owens' new exhibition at Cornerhouse deals with performance and participation in its most extreme form. Curator Daniella Rose King and collaborator David Blandy talk us through Owens' engaging and complex process Read more »| 02 May 2014 -
ArtThe Skinny Showcase: JONZO
The Skinny Showcase: JONZO JONZO is Liverpool's first risograph print, design and illustration studio, run by Lottie Brzozowski and Rachel Davey, one h... Read more »| 02 May 2014 -
ArtOwn Art: RSA Annual 2014
Upholding a venerable tradition which dates back to the mid-19th Century, RSA members give new work an spring airing in this major annual exhibition which spans genre and style Read more »| 02 May 2014 -
Art
GENERATION: A History of Contemporary Scottish Art
As the eyes of the world turn on Scotland for the Commonwealth Games, one vast exhibition programme called GENERATION aims to present the stories of the nation's visual art in the last 25 years Read more »| 02 May 2014 -
BooksLexicon by Max Barry
Great sci-fi has often traded on the genre’s potential for making abstract ideas real: Philip K Dick made the question of ‘what makes us human?&r... Read more »| 02 May 2014 -
Music
Strange Fascination: Inside The Cult of The Horrors
As they unveil fourth album Luminous, we confront the UK’s biggest cult band to mine the paradoxes at the heart of their success Read more »| 02 May 2014
-
Music
Cloud Sounds #15: with Fat White Family, Tuff Love, Baths and more
Our Music team's weekly playlist also showcases new tracks from Hüsker Dü / Sugar front-man Bob Mould, Dundee post-hardcore mob Fat Goth, Anticon beatsmith Alias, and a track from the late, great footwork pioneer DJ Rashad, who passed away last week Read more »| 01 May 2014 -
MusicYoung Fathers to headline concert for Refugee Week Scotland
Running from 16-22 June, Refugee Week Scotland features a huge calendar of concerts, visual arts events and more, including a performance from Young Fathers, headlining the World Refugee Day Concert in Glasgow Read more »| 01 May 2014 -
Music
In Pictures: The Skinny Northwest First Birthday Party
The Skinny 01 How time flies. It seems like only yesterday The Skinny team were crossing the t’s and dotting the i’s on the inaugural Northwest ... Read more »| 01 May 2014 -
Music
On Tour: Prince, Jane's Addiction, ATP Iceland add Mogwai, Slowdive and more
A round-up of tour news, with Jane's Addiction reuniting to ply Nothing's Shocking, Prince hitting Scotland for the first time in nearly 20 years, and new additions for ATP Iceland, including Mogwai, Liars and Swans Read more »| 01 May 2014 -
Comedy
John-Luke Roberts @ Pub/Zoo, 22 April
XS Malarkey’s non-profit ethos, and commitment to supporting both the absolute beginners and rising stars of the circuit, and allowing them to share th... Read more »| 01 May 2014 -
Theatre
La Tragédie Comique @ Various Venues
Directed by Ian Cameron, La Tragédie Comique is Plutôt La Vie's latest production - a one man show about love, discovery and the joy of being alive Read more »| 01 May 2014 -
Books
Scottish PEN launches literary events across Scotland
Scottish PEN have this week announced a series of readings and literary events at venues across Scotland, featuring writers, poets and publishers such as Kevin Williamson, Ken Macleod, Linton Kwesi Johnson Read more »| 01 May 2014 -
Music
Scotland's Black Diamond Express set to tour Canada and play NxNE festival
Scotland's Black Diamond Express will soon be touring across Canada, culminating in an appearance at Toronto's NxNE (North By Northeast). The Skinny speaks exclusively to songwriter Toby Mottershead about the tour, and their forthcoming album Read more »| 01 May 2014 -
Art
Go Toward the Light: LightNight 2014
From fire shows to dazzle ships, LightNight floods Liverpool with luminous displays of creativity in May. We take a look at the programme Read more »| 01 May 2014