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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TheatreAsk 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 -
FilmWiener-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 -
MusicWild 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 -
MusicLive 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 -
BooksBeast 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
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Music
Marielle 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 -
Clubs
Glasgow Clubbing Highlights: 3 - 9 August
Clubbing for a good cause features in our Glasgow highlights this week, along with a disco boat party and an appearance by an Argentinian turntable wunderkid Read more »| 03 Aug 2016 -
Music
Junun revealed as finale for Le Guess Who? 2016
This year's edition of the Utrecht festival will be brought to a close by Junun, featuring Jonny Greenwood, The Rajasthan Express and Shye Ben Tzur Read more »| 03 Aug 2016 -
Music
The Veils – Total Depravity
'How could you love me, babe, just to strip it all away?' laments Finn Andrews on In the Blood, a highlight of The Veils' excellent fifth album. As with much... Read more »| 03 Aug 2016 -
Film
A Poem is a Naked Person
Les Blank's long-lost Leon Russell documentary comes to cinemas Read more »| 03 Aug 2016 -
Music
Track premiere: Law Holt – Love Drive Through
Listen to the track from Law Holt's debut LP Read more »| 03 Aug 2016 -
Film
Messi
Álex de la Iglesia delivers an atypical sports doc celebrating the life and achievements of the world’s best footballer Read more »| 03 Aug 2016 -
Film
The Mermaid
A delightfully silly fantasy adventure from Kung Fu Hustle director Stephen Chow In The Mermaid, Stephen Chow doesn’t so much take the fish out of wat... Read more »| 03 Aug 2016