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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MusicTo 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 -
MusicAlvvays – 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 -
MusicBrian 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 -
MusicA 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
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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 -
Clubs
Skinned #2: Garth Be [Sweet Sticky]
Manchester's own Garth Be has been good enough to serve up the second course of our Skinned series, a rangy platter featuring the sounds of New World Aquarium, Funkinevil and Drexciya Read more »| 04 Jul 2014 -
Art
The Skinny Showcase: Jade Collin
The Skinny Showcase: Jade Collin Jade studied Theatre and Performance Design at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, before completing her degree in Fin... Read more »| 04 Jul 2014 -
Art
Edinburgh College: Let's Glow
Running through May and June in venues across Edinburgh, the Let’s Glow festival celebrates the creative students of Edinburgh College (the colleges fo... Read more »| 04 Jul 2014 -
Art
Liverpool Biennial 2014: The Best of the Rest
Jellyfish living in a Toxteth shop window, digital botanics at Metal, scrambled eggs at Cactus Gallery and musical roller-blading at The Royal Standard; we get you up to speed on the best of the exhibitions outside of the main Biennial programme Read more »| 04 Jul 2014 -
Art
Barnaby Barford: Broken China Dolls
Showing in Dovercot this month, artist Barnaby Barford sculpts onto porcelain figurines to tell bittersweet tales of the modern world Read more »| 04 Jul 2014 -
Theatre
National Theatre of Scotland: Black Watch @ SECC, 28 March - 13 April
"If he wants to know what it's like in Iraq, Cammy, he has to feel some fucking pain!" A man in military dress is bent over a young man, trying to break his ... Read more »| 04 Jul 2014 -
Comedy
The Little Theatre That Could
Placed just 17 miles from Manchester and 30 from Liverpool, Chorley Little Theatre – under the direction of Ian Robinson – is giving the big boys a run for their money. Catch a number of Edinburgh previews in the Lancashire picturehouse this month Read more »| 04 Jul 2014