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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MusicSleaford Mods – Key Markets
Jason Williamson: lyrical clusterbomb, full of bon mots – often expletives – and prescient observations deployed at dizzying speed. Check him out... Read more »| 26 Jun 2015 -
Music
Trembling Bells – The Sovereign Self
The reverberant, harrowing and cathartic vocals of Lavinia Blackwall stretch opener ’Tween the Womb and The Tomb to sheer fullness as she literally sin... Read more »| 26 Jun 2015 -
Film
Jupiter Ascending
In the Wachowskis' latest film, Channing Tatum plays a flying wolfman from space. The film to fit that description is going to be outlandish, unusual, action... Read more »| 25 Jun 2015 -
MusicThe Orange Humble Band – Depressing Beauty
Ken Stringfellow. Jody Stephens. Jon Auer. Chris Stamey. Mitch Easter. If you are of a certain gender (male), age (um…) and persuasion (into REM when ... Read more »| 25 Jun 2015 -
Music
Carlton Melton – Out to Sea
Psychedelic jam band Carlton Melton’s latest cosmic voyage aims to open your mind, but you’ll first need to adjust your expectations. Most tracks... Read more »| 25 Jun 2015 -
Music
Rolo Tomassi – Grievances
Rolo Tomassi's complex and uncompromising aesthetic has seen them perhaps fall between two stools: leftfield additions to the Download bill on the one hand; ... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015
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ClubsWolstenholme Square plans revealed as Nation announces closing date
Nation, the Liverpool club which spawned the global clubbing institution Cream, will close its doors at the end of the year, as plans for the development of ... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
ArtGSA Degree Show 2015: East End Art School
Glasgow School of Art exhibits its Fine Art degree show for the first time in its new Tontine Building, with students showing no sign of dinted confidence. Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
Music
Supermoon – Oh Supermoon, Vol. 1
Neil Pennycook has ditched the Meursault moniker. In its place: Supermoon. A threadbare step down from the intricate and skewed folk of his previous out... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
Art
Action Man: Battlefield Casualties short film released
A new short film based on artist Darren Cullen's Action Man: Battlefield Casualties artwork has been released online. The film, which features a voice... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
Music
Mutoid Man – Bleeder
There’s a real dizzying effect when Bleeder first roars out of your speakers; a cyclone of gargantuan riffs and wailing solos that threaten to submerge... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
Music
Mogwai announce ‘Central Belters’ boxset
Mogwai have revealed plans for a career-spanning box set of rarities and classic tracks, entitled Central Belters. The thirty-five track collection comes as... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
Music
From The Kites of San Quentin @ Eagle Inn, Salford, 19 June
Since emerging within Manchester well over half decade ago, From The Kites of San Quentin have consistently pulled apart the seams of electronica and filled ... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
Film
Difret
Zeresenay Berhane Mehari’s film is unusual for a work of Ethiopian cinema. Shot in 35mm, it eschews the more export-friendly English language for Amhar... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
Music
John Grant announces new album ‘Grey Tickles, Black Pressure’
US singer-songwriter John Grant has announced details of his third solo album Grey Tickles, Black Pressure, the follow-up to 2013’s Pale Green Ghosts. ... Read more »| 23 Jun 2015