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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MusicFFS – Franz Ferdinand and Sparks form new band, plot summer tour
Glasgow art rockers Franz Ferdinand have joined forces with LA new wavers Sparks for a new project. Taking the name FFS, the transatlantic sextet will u... Read more »| 10 Mar 2015 -
MusicFutureEverything: Alec Empire/Tristan Perich @ RNCM, Manchester, 27 February
As the RNCM’s concert hall is plunged into darkness, it would seem that Tristan Perich – presenting new work Noise Patterns – really w... Read more »| 10 Mar 2015 -
TheatreIn Good Company: Front Row Theatre
A company spearheaded by graduates of UCLan hopes to offer a platform for emerging talent, as well as produce plays with a social conscience Read more »| 10 Mar 2015 -
Art
Jesse Wine @ BALTIC, Gateshead
Three low plinths are stages for mobiles in the ground floor gallery of BALTIC, each holding accompanying props. These new works in Young man red, Jesse Wine... Read more »| 10 Mar 2015 -
MusicFutureEverything: Koreless @ Royal Northern College of Music, 25 February
Even for a producer who revels in fracturing recognisable electronic tropes into loosely connected flotsam, the addition of both Daedelus-collaborating visua... Read more »| 10 Mar 2015 -
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LoneLady – Hinterland
Writing his Manifesto of Futurism in 1909, Fillipo Tomasso Marinetti stated his desire to sing the virtues of railway stations, factories, bridges, and an un... Read more »| 10 Mar 2015
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MusicLightning Bolt – Fantasy Empire
Noise rock cognoscenti of a volatile disposition might want to cover their eyes and ears: the unthinkable has happened. Yes, Lightning Bolt – that... Read more »| 09 Mar 2015 -
Film
Northwest Film Event Highlights – March 2015
It gets a bit dusty in this month's event column as Manchester institution Cornerhouse delivers its final ¡Viva! events and a celebratory That’s a Wrap! film season Read more »| 09 Mar 2015 -
Film
Scotland Film Event Highlights – March 2015
There's a horror tinge to this month's film highlights: the Daughters of Darkness spook the GFT, The Rocky Horror Picture Show's audience members terrify Cineworld and a whole night of All Night Horror Madness at Cameo and the Grosvenor Read more »| 09 Mar 2015 -
Music
Glasgow's Ripcord collective unleash charity punk compilation
Glasgow-based punk collective Ripcord have released a compilation album to raise money for mental health charities. Featuring Scotland's high-speed melodici... Read more »| 09 Mar 2015 -
Music
Leader of the Pack: Wolf Alice's Ellie Rowsell interviewed
As they prepare to release their debut album, Ellie Rowsell tells The Skinny why Wolf Alice have little time for indie pop convention Read more »| 09 Mar 2015 -
Film
Maidan
Sergei Loznitsa’s Maidan is a film that achieves a visceral sense of immediacy by keeping its distance. Shooting from judiciously chosen vantage points... Read more »| 09 Mar 2015 -
Theatre
Autumn Portaits
Autumn Portraits begins as one might expect, with puppeteer Eric Bass donning a mask and silently bending the will and the actions of one of his many, many p... Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
Theatre
And Then He Ate Me @ Traverse
Strange, fantastical and dark, And Then He Ate Me is a fairytale for the stage that bites back. Created by the award-winning French company Velo Theatre, thi... Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
Theatre
Dance of The Magnetic Ballerina @ Traverse
From an achromatic gloom, the figure of Andrea Miltnerova materialises, on a contained platform adrift in the middle of the enormous Traverse One stage. Evok... Read more »| 06 Mar 2015