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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Film
Last House On The Left
Summer is fast approaching and so is the slew of next generation horrors also known to the studios as reimaginings and known to the rest of us as rehashing. ... Read more »| 04 Jun 2009 -
Music
Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP
Okay, this is how EPs should be done. Five songs in fifteen minutes that serve to remind us just what a freakish talent Bradford Cox actually is. As his gorg... Read more »| 03 Jun 2009 -
Film
The Beautiful Game
Looking for Eric is full of the unexpected. Not only is it a comedy from an unlikely director it also stars the football legend Eric Cantona who demonstrates, among other things, his skill at playing the trumpet. Gail Tolley finds out that what initially sounds like an unlikely premise actually works rather well. Read more »| 03 Jun 2009 -
Music
The Warlocks: Fevered Dreamers
Before they unleash The Mirror Explodes - their most accomplished album to date - Mark Shukla talks to uncompromising LA outsiders The Warlocks and finds out what keeps them awake at night Read more »| 03 Jun 2009 -
Music
Various Artists - Causes 2
Causes 2, the second in Waxploitation Records' charitable series, balances musical quality with worthy causes, making it worth your money for all the right reasons. Read more »| 03 Jun 2009 -
Clubs
TitP Highlights
Chris Duncan looks forward to a weekend in the Slam tent Read more »| 03 Jun 2009
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Film
Aria
Aria producer Don Boyd could never have anticipated that twenty-two years after his film’s release, multiplex cinemas would be screening pristinely fil... Read more »| 03 Jun 2009 -
Music
Withered Hand - You're Not Alone EP
After the rollicking full band sing-along of first EP Religious Songs, this second EP showcases the more reflective side of Withered Hand's Dan Willson, here... Read more »| 02 Jun 2009 -
Music
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Sonic Youth's greatest album is always whichever one you heard first - unless that was NYC Ghosts & Flowers (you poor thing). The band's famous experimen... Read more »| 02 Jun 2009 -
Music
Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor
An album ornamented in the existential backdrop of perdition, between Arcadia and Abaddon, The Bachelor veers between notions of armageddic chaos and the tra... Read more »| 02 Jun 2009 -
Music
James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game
James Blackshaw made his name with his prodigious talent on the twelve-string guitar, but eighth album The Glass Bead Game suggests that dexterous fingerpick... Read more »| 02 Jun 2009 -
Music
Akron/Family @ Captain's Rest, 22 May
Freak-folk trio Akron/Family bring their lucky rabbits foot to the Captain's Rest. Read more »| 02 Jun 2009 -
Theatre
Balgay Hill
Anna Fenton looks at a study of one of Dundee's most famous sons. Read more »| 02 Jun 2009 -
Music
Wavves: Surfing the Zeitgeist
Setting the blogosphere ablaze with pure sun-drenched euphoria in recent months, Nathan Williams has endured – rather than enjoyed – an unlikely ... Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
Music
Frank Zappa: A Mother of Invention
There are many artists who are praised as being ‘ahead of their time’, but in Frank Zappa’s case, you begin to wonder whether the man possessed some kind of time-machine, so eerily prophetic were his musical innovations. These are just a few of the ways in which Zappa was a composer way avant of the garde Read more »| 01 Jun 2009