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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ArtShowcase: Joe Fletcher Orr
Showcase: Joe Fletcher Orr Whilst in discussion with Orr he revealed that he believed he made his best work at high school when he ate an apple from the sti... Read more »| 05 Mar 2015 -
ArtCultural Calendar – March 2015
A guide to our picks of the CCA programme Read more »| 05 Mar 2015 -
Theatre
Jumping Puddles @ Liverpool Everyman
Anybody working in the arts will testify that 'collaboration' is a buzzword at the moment – not only because of the shared financial risk, but also due... Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
ClubsBack on the Bloc: Festival Preview
With a dizzying array of talent lined up, the Bloc Weekend returns to Minehead in emphatic style this month Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
BooksThe Shame Game: Jon Ronson on his divisive new book
We chat to the award-winning writer Jon Ronson about his new book So You've Been Publicly Shamed, and discuss the need for empathy in our increasingly perilous digital landscape, where the unwary are lynched in 140 characters or less Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
Art
Digital Distress: exploring mental health and technology at FACT
As an exhibition exploring the relationship between technology and mental health opens at FACT, artist Katriona Beales talks about her new commission dealing with internet addiction Read more »| 04 Mar 2015
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Music
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – Chasing Yesterday
The promise of Noel Gallagher's Amorphous Androgynous collaboration seems like the product of a weird drug-infused dream these days. The combination of a sol... Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
Theatre
Amanda Gaughan: Hedda Gabler
Amanda Gaughan talks strong women on stage and the pull of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, in advance of its run at The Lyceum later this month. Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
Music
Liturgy – The Ark Work
Liturgy faced both praise and ridicule back in 2011 with the publicity surrounding Aesthetica, an LP that strengthened the quartet's hyper-intense fusion of ... Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
Film
Radiator wins Glasgow Film Festival audience award
It was announced on Sunday that Tom Browne’s debut feature Radiator has won the first Glasgow Film Festival audience award. The film – which foc... Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
Clubs
Northwest Clubbing Highlights – March 2015
Pisces rejoice: seemingly every night in the Northwest is celebrating their birthday this month, and a range of dignitaries from the house and techno illuminati will grace our dingy basements to toast them Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
Music
Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
She’s a smart one, Courtney Barnett. Like all the best observational lyricists, she can summon – or at least suggest – profundity in t... Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
Books
Mark Ellen: Pop Court Chronicler
Mark Ellen has documented late 20th century pop music's biggest moments in his memoir Rock Stars Stole My Life! Here he regales us with tales of those times and offers a lament on why modern day stars just don't cut the mustard (or anything else) Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
Music
Modest Mouse – Strangers To Ourselves
Eight years, eh? Modest Mouse finally return, unscathed – indeed, unMarred – by lineup changes and relocations, and the inclusion of some electro... Read more »| 04 Mar 2015 -
Music
Sacred Paws – Six Songs EP
Guitar, drums and two vocals; the Sacred Paws line-up couldn't be more straightforward. But their first proper release after being signed by Mogwai's Rock Ac... Read more »| 04 Mar 2015