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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ArtSalford Degree Show 2014: Creativity Unleashed
With degree show season coming to an end, we look back at the University of Salford's graduating visual arts students, who showed as part of Create at Salford Festival 2014 Read more »| 11 Jul 2014 -
MusicConor Oberst @ Manchester Cathedral, 8 July
Our adolescent idols look different through the hazy lens of time. Cult indie-folk philosopher Conor Oberst has mellowed a lot in recent years, phasing out h... Read more »| 10 Jul 2014 -
TheatreCabaret: Status 2014
What happened to the cabaret revival? We take a look at some of the month's events to find it in rude health Read more »| 10 Jul 2014 -
TheatreScene Change
Where does Liverpool’s freshest creative talent congregate? It was a question that Liverpool’s Everyman and Playhouse Young Producers found had n... Read more »| 10 Jul 2014 -
Books
Mark Z. Danielewski – Paper at the Cutting Edge of Fiction
Visionary writer Mark Z. Danielewski on stitching narrative threads, the joy of collaboration, why you'll never read an e-book of his work, and the loneliness of the young novelist Read more »| 10 Jul 2014 -
Art
Walk On: 40 Years of Art Walking @ The Atkinson, Southport
Artists walking? They get ferried around by Saatchi limo don’t they? At the very least some smart, gallery-paid-for black cab. Apparently not so. They ... Read more »| 09 Jul 2014
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Art
Launch Pad: About Painting @ Castlefield Gallery/Agency
Bringing together eight painters from across the UK, Castlefield’s new exhibition Launch Pad: About Painting, explores the variety of abstract painting... Read more »| 09 Jul 2014 -
Music
To Rococo Rot – Instrument
The latest from these Berlin experimentalists belies its uncompromising title; for the first time in an eight album career, they’ve chosen to embellish... Read more »| 09 Jul 2014 -
Music
Alvvays – Alvvays
Looking for your summer soundtrack? Get ready to swoon. This ain’t no hackneyed trust exercise either, so make sure you’re stood well away from s... Read more »| 09 Jul 2014 -
Music
Midnight Masses – Departures
The loss of loved ones both started and very nearly ended Midnight Masses. Established in 2008 by Autry Fulbright and buddy Jason Reece of …And You Wi... Read more »| 08 Jul 2014 -
Music
Brian Reitzell – WATCH_DOGS OST
Finding esoteric music in videogames isn’t so hard on the fringes of the indie scene, but for a multi-million dollar, next-gen, new hope like Watch Dog... Read more »| 08 Jul 2014 -
Music
A Matter of Choice: Kiran Leonard interviewed
Prodigious Oldham songwriter Kiran Leonard is a teenager who fully embraces our era of all-access Read more »| 07 Jul 2014 -
Theatre
Venue of the Month: Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre
Presenting the Northwest’s answer to the Globe – in Chester Read more »| 07 Jul 2014 -
Art
Skin and Bones @ 1 Royal Terrace
Royal Terrace Committee Show Skin and Bones hosts the architecturally enhanced but bodily based sculptural installation from its founding artists Ruth Swital... Read more »| 07 Jul 2014 -
Film
Back to Reality: David Gordon Green on Joe
David Gordon Green has one of the strangest CVs in Hollywood, easily switching from lyrical drama (George Washington) to goofy stoner comedies (Pineapple Express). He's back in a more contemplative mood with Joe, a lived-in slice of American Gothic Read more »| 07 Jul 2014