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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MusicJesca Hoop @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, 28 Mar
If there’s one thing you can count on with a Jesca Hoop record, it’s to expect the unexpected. A songwriter who clearly loves to bend the 'rules'... Read more »| 03 Apr 2017 -
MusicThe Lemon Twigs @ Gorilla, Manchester, 28 Mar
It’s a bold move starting your show with your most recent single when you only have one album to showcase. And herein lies the confidence of New York&r... Read more »| 03 Apr 2017 -
Music
Black Honey @ The Ruby Lounge, Manchester, 28 Mar
Black Honey know just how good they are. Ever since the Tarantino-indebted Spinning Wheel rightfully put the band on the lips of every Rough-Trade-tote-bag-s... Read more »| 03 Apr 2017 -
Music
Posable Action Figures – Hummingbird (Track Premiere)
Listen to the new single, Hummingbird, by Posable Action Figures Read more »| 03 Apr 2017 -
MusicRun The Jewels @ Albert Hall, Manchester, 31 Mar
It’s an audacious move, walking on stage to Queen’s We Are The Champions, but once Run The Jewels get started, that triumphalism seems justi... Read more »| 03 Apr 2017 -
Art
Haiku in 3D: Brodie Sim & Linda Bolsakova interview
Artists Linda Bolsakova and Brodie Sim present the outcome of their emailed haiku exchange and long period of installation from 7 April in Generator Projects, both working with sculptural and complex ideas of nature Read more »| 03 Apr 2017
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Clubs
Introducing... Charlotte de Witte
Ahead of her Scottish debut at Nightvision's Terminal V festival, we speak to rising Belgian talent Charlotte de Witte about touring, producing, and the dark side of techno music Read more »| 03 Apr 2017 -
Music
The New Pornographers – Whiteout Conditions
With no less than five songwriters among their number (including Destroyer’s Dan Bejar and the formidable talents of Neko Case), it’s understanda... Read more »| 03 Apr 2017 -
FilmA Quiet Passion
Terence Davies' Emily Dickinson biopic begins as a wry social satire before becoming a Dreyer-esque death crawl Read more »| 03 Apr 2017 -
Books
How to Be Human by Paula Cocozza
Paula Cocozza's novel How to Be Human is an arresting, appealing debut, telling the story of its protagonist, Mary, and the fox that visits her East London g... Read more »| 03 Apr 2017 -
MusicYorkston/Thorne/Khan – Neuk Wight Delhi All-Stars
Everything Sacred was one of last year’s most pleasant surprises. The debut collaboration between James Yorkston of the East Neuk of Fife, New Delhi&rs... Read more »| 03 Apr 2017 -
Film
Mad to Be Normal
Former Doctor Who star David Tennant plays notorious Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing. The central performance is compelling, but the film around Tennant is as hazy as the cigarette smoke-choked sets Read more »| 03 Apr 2017 -
Film
Julia Ducournau on coming-of-age cannibalism drama Raw
Raw has been described as a contemporary Suspiria meets Ginger Snaps, yet that impressive comparison somehow still doesn't do justice to French director Julia Ducournau's definitely self-assured, gripping debut Read more »| 03 Apr 2017 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: April 2017 Horoscopes
Our resident astrologist returns with this month's predictions Read more »| 03 Apr 2017 -
Film
Two Rode Together
James Stewart stars as a cynical marshal hired to rescue prisoners captured by Comanche in this dark western from John Ford Read more »| 03 Apr 2017