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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ComedyGlasgow collective CHUNKS crash into the Fringe
The performers behind one of the best regular comedy nights in Glasgow are staging a take-over of the Edinburgh Fringe. We ask the CHUNKS collective to plan an approved itinerary of their affiliated shows – and what they'd say about each other Read more »| 04 Aug 2016 -
MusicEx-Easter Island Head: A Guide to Minimalism
The experimental Liverpool trio talk us through the pieces that informed their idiosyncratic output, from Steve Reich to Colin Stetson Read more »| 04 Aug 2016 -
MusicBob Moses – Days Gone By (Never Enough Edition)
When NY house twosome Bob Moses originally dropped Days Gone By late 2015, heads were turned. It was clear its constituent musicians – Canadian-born To... Read more »| 04 Aug 2016 -
Comedy
Knightmare Live's Paul Flannery on RPG Shows
Paul Flannery is the retro-genius who brought 80s hit show Knightmare back as a Fringe experience; this year he's also rolling The M.M.O.R.P.G. Show into the Counting House Read more »| 04 Aug 2016 -
Music
Blossoms – Blossoms
Stockport quintet Blossoms have been making all the right moves ahead of their debut release, cropping up on a number of 'bands to watch' lists whilst amassi... Read more »| 04 Aug 2016 -
Film
Sing Street
Once director John Carney hits it out of the park again with his winning indie musical formula, this time applying it to an 80s coming-of-age story John Car... Read more »| 04 Aug 2016
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Music
Mercury Prize 2016: Shortlist announced
The twelve-act shortlist for this year's Hyundai Mercury Prize has been announced this morning. Read more »| 04 Aug 2016 -
Theatre
Ask Auntie Trash: Stop the World, I Wanna Get Off
Our cultural agony aunt responds to a reader keen to "make the world less shit" following a string of tragedies and disasters around the world. Read more »| 04 Aug 2016 -
Film
Wiener-Dog
Todd Solondz's most moving work to date Read more »| 04 Aug 2016 -
Music
Live music in Manchester this week: 3-9 Aug
August may be renowned as one of the gigging circuit's quieter months, but this week in Manchester you can sink your teeth into False Advertising, Virginia Wing, Kanda Bongo Man and many more. Not bad, eh? Read more »| 03 Aug 2016 -
Music
Wild Beasts @ Brudenell Social Club, 26 July
The days of Wild Beasts taking a kind of 'Martin Amis novel', public-schoolboys-up-to-no-good approach to being sexy are long gone. Tonight’s home... Read more »| 03 Aug 2016 -
Music
Live music in Liverpool this week: 3 - 9 Aug
Slowcore legends, local heroes, something rather fabulously called 'deathgrind'... it's another packed week for Liverpool's live scene Read more »| 03 Aug 2016 -
Books
Beast by Paul Kingsnorth
A man alone in a barn on a moor. Outside is whiteness and emptiness and heat then rain. The man isn’t sleeping much. He’s come out here to escape... Read more »| 03 Aug 2016 -
MusicMarielle V Jakobsons – Star Core
Less an album, more a masterclass in sonic sculpture, Star Core is a beautifully sparse affair. Evocative, meditative and fluid, its exploitation of drone tr... Read more »| 03 Aug 2016 -
Clubs
Edinburgh Clubbing Highlights: 3 - 9 August
Festival fever kicks off in the capital this weekend, meaning plenty of parties on offer and 5am licensing, too... Read more »| 03 Aug 2016