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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TheatreJackie Hagan on her new show, Some People Have Too Many Legs
Comedian, poet, theatre-maker and all-round local legend Jackie Hagan explains how a tremendously difficult year helped her hone her craft Read more »| 09 Jun 2015 -
TheatreLittle Shop of Horrors
Theatre comes to the film festival with Live, Live Cinema. Barnie Duncan chats to The Skinny about the drawing nature of screens, tripping over your own brain and the escalating fight to impress an audience. Read more »| 08 Jun 2015 -
ClubsBehind the Scenes: KMAH
Broadcasting from the back streets of Leeds, new radio station KMAH aims to spread a bit of limelight on North-based DJs Read more »| 08 Jun 2015 -
MusicRemember Remember announce split
Glasgow sextet Remember Remember have announced they are to split up, playing their final show at this month’s West End Festival. Writing on the group... Read more »| 08 Jun 2015 -
Art
Northern Greats: The Yoga Lounge
As she prepares to hold a mass yoga event marking the summer solstice, we speak to Yoga Lounge owner Jane Dowler for the latest in our series meeting residents of the Great Northern Read more »| 08 Jun 2015 -
Comedy
Interview with the Vampire: Fred Fletch v Dracula
Of all the wonders at this year's Magic Festival, one thing we didn't anticipate was Dracula. Rafael is a magician taking on the famous Count's duties at the closing gala, but we knew he was a true vampire when he agreed to an interview with Fred Fletch Read more »| 08 Jun 2015
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Film
Way Out West: John Maclean on Slow West
For his debut feature film, John Maclean has ventured where few UK filmmakers have gone before: the wild expanse of the Old West. The former Beta Band knob-twiddler talks about going from making films with his bandmates to directing Michael Fassbender Read more »| 08 Jun 2015 -
Art
The Skinny Showcase: Sarah Eyre
Showcase: Sarah Eyre “My work is concerned with an abiding fascination for the uncanny and the surreal in everyday objects, as well as an ongoing expl... Read more »| 05 Jun 2015 -
Art
That’s Entertainment: Oculist Witnesses at the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
Preston’s Harris Museum & Art Gallery encourages us to “dance first, think later” with two new exhibitions. We talk to Oculist Witness artist Sovay Berriman about her ever morphing sculpture, nomadic herding odysseys and molluscs that hunt wizards... Read more »| 05 Jun 2015 -
Art
The Skinny Showcase: Tim Dalzell
Showcase: Tim Dalzell Tim Dalzell studied Sculpture & Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art (2014). After graduating he co-founded the YAKA collect... Read more »| 05 Jun 2015 -
Music
Northwest Music News — 5 Jun: The Earlies, Evil Blizzard, Clinic and more
The Earlies, Evil Blizzard and more in our latest Northwest music round-up. Read more »| 05 Jun 2015 -
Clubs
Electric Frog and Pressure Riverside Festival, Glasgow, 29-30 June
Glasgow crowds don’t get too many opportunities for al fresco partying and, when these events do come around, there tends to be a bit of acclimatising ... Read more »| 05 Jun 2015 -
BooksLiberty Bazaar by David Chadwick
High society is a form of captivity in this rollicking tour through Victorian Liverpool, which also happens to be a searing indictment of Britain’s rol... Read more »| 05 Jun 2015 -
Music
Fist City's Evan van Reekum on why 'Everything Is A Mess'
Surf-inflected Canadian noisemongers Fist City get angry on their excellent new album Everything Is A Mess – we caught up with guitarist Evan van Reekum to talk politics, punk and riding waves in landlocked towns Read more »| 05 Jun 2015 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: June 2015
ARIESYou’re alarmed to find that your period has begun blotting dark red advertising messages onto the inside of your sanitary towels. This month&rsquo... Read more »| 04 Jun 2015