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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BooksGwendoline Riley interview: First Love
Longlisted for the 2017 Baileys Prize, Gwendoline Riley's fifth novel, First Love, is a needle-sharp portrait of a relationship caught between peace and pain Read more »| 08 Mar 2017 -
MusicLive music in Liverpool this week: 8-14 Mar
Ragtime reworkings of pop hits? DIY hardcore heroes delivering the goods? Yep, looks like you're catered for: another selection of must-sees and curios for the week ahead. Read more »| 08 Mar 2017 -
Film
The Lost City of Z
An epic tale of obsession as Charlie Hunnam plays a British explorer searching for an ancient Amazonian city Read more »| 08 Mar 2017 -
MusicBeyond The Coral: Lee Southall interview
Leaving Hoylake heroes The Coral presented Lee Southall with a welcome opportunity to start over – as he prepares to release debut album Iron in the Fi... Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
Music
Forest Swords unveils new single The Highest Flood
Hear the Merseyside producer's first release for Ninja Tune Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
Music
Porter Ray – Watercolor
It’s easy to dismiss the notion of rapping as a form of poetry when ‘rappers’ like French Montana exist, but Porter Ray is making hip-hop g... Read more »| 07 Mar 2017
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Music
Ron Gallo – Heavy Meta
Ron Gallo is fed up; with himself, with other people, with rock music, with technology, with junk food – the whole stinking business. He opens his solo... Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
Art
This Week in Scottish Art: 7-13 March 2017
This week brings new exhibits from Arusha Gallery, Out of the Blue Drill Hall and Dovecot Studios, as well as talks at ECA and Meadow Mill Studios in Dundee and last chances to see shows at Embassy, The Modern Institute, and The Number Shop Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
ClubsNightwave: Redressing the balance in dance music
We catch up with Glasgow-based DJ and producer Maya Medvesek, aka Nightwave, to chat about her forthcoming EP release, her Producergirls workshops – and why we need to ditch the term 'female DJ' Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
Music
Manchester's best record shops
From Northern Soul and The Smiths through to every sub-genre of dance music, there's no city better suited to an army of great record shops than Manchester. Here's our guide to where to pick up current releases, old classics and rarities Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
Film
Doc’n Roll Film Festival returns to Liverpool
Sleaford Mods, The Orb, The Melvins, Gregory Porter, Norwegian House, and Sparklehorse all feature in the three day festival Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
Art
Humber Street Gallery: The Skinny Showcase
At the heart of Hull UK City of Culture 2017 is a new contemporary art space, Humber Street Gallery Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
Music
The Pigeon Detectives @ Electric Circus, Edinburgh, 4 Mar
For many 20-somethings, The Pigeon Detectives will bring back fond memories of a golden age of indie, the ups and downs of which are still very visible today... Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
Music
Thurston Moore @ Islington Mill, Salford, 3 Mar
Still is an appropriate name for tonight’s opening act. The solo project of Blacklung’s James Moffat, the aptness comes not from his on-stag... Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
Music
De La Soul @ Albert Hall, Manchester, 2 Mar
Manchester’s Albert Hall is the perfect venue for De La Soul. Much like the renovated Methodist chapel – complete with stained glass windows and ... Read more »| 07 Mar 2017