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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FilmBitch Slap
Boobs, bullets and blood burst out of the screen in Xena alumnus Rick Jacobson’s patchy tribute to the Russ Meyer exploitation movies of yester... Read more »| 07 Apr 2010 -
MusicCaribou: Selling Live Water
Doctor of mathematics Dan Snaith, a.k.a. Caribou, talks to The Skinny about trying to make 'dance music out of water'. And a 1, and a 2, and a 1,2,3,4... Read more »| 06 Apr 2010 -
MusicHinterland @ Various Venues, Glasgow, 3 April
Squeezed from two days into one and scaled back from fifteen venues spread city-wide to a half-dozen proximate haunts, Hinterland have reformatted 2009&rsquo... Read more »| 06 Apr 2010 -
Music
Son Lux – Weapons EP
Building six tracks from one takes some doing, but that’s the gauntlet Son Lux’s Ryan Lott throws down on the Weapons EP. As the standout... Read more »| 06 Apr 2010 -
MusicPeggy Sue - Fossils and Other Phantoms
With a number of name changes – from Peggy Sue and the Pirates through ‘and the Pictures’, to now, simply, Peggy Sue - not to mention three... Read more »| 06 Apr 2010 -
Music
Cypress Hill - Rise Up
“In 1991, an artist in Compton picked up Cypress Hill’s debut album. What he heard blew him away; the futuristic funk with a diehard dedication t... Read more »| 06 Apr 2010
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Film
Beyond Happiness: Todd Solondz talks about Life During Wartime
Todd Solondz’s Life During Wartime returns to the same characters made famous in his caustic social satire Happiness. He talks to The Skinny about balancing humour with poignancy and why his latest film is not quite a sequel Read more »| 06 Apr 2010 -
Music
The Twilight Sad @ ABC, 2 April
Take A Worm For A Walk Week have the reputation of perverted lions – unsettling, dangerous - but tonight they’re eccentric puppy-dogs. They&rsquo... Read more »| 06 Apr 2010 -
Theatre
That's All Folks
A marriage in chaos before the best man gets up to toast the couple. Inspector Sands investigates. Read more »| 05 Apr 2010 -
Music
Limozine - Evil Love
Evil Love is a spluttering tip of the cap to old school rock n' roll, which sees London-based quartet, Limozine dole out chunky three chord struts wh... Read more »| 05 Apr 2010 -
Music
Meursault: Escape from Auld Reekie
In a flourishing music scene, Meursault are one of Edinburgh's brightest hopes in recent years – it's high time everyone else caught on Read more »| 05 Apr 2010 -
Music
She & Him - Volume Two
While adjustments have been made, She & Him’s sophomore release is very much an extension of their first. A choir of merrily chirruping Zooeys and ... Read more »| 05 Apr 2010 -
Film
The Cry of the Owl
This low-key adaptation of one of Patricia Highsmith’s lesser-known stories finds a troubled divorcee (Considine) becoming obsessed with a pretty young... Read more »| 05 Apr 2010 -
Film
Raging Phoenix
Thailand continues its dominance of the martial arts genre with this latest effort from the producers of Ong-Bak. Deu (Chocolate star Yanin) is a rock drumme... Read more »| 05 Apr 2010 -
Music
Whiplash - Losing Control
Australian MC, Whiplash, doesn't so much spit rhymes as dribble them, drooling nearly indecipherable vocal trails that are nearly all lost in a maze of gawdy... Read more »| 04 Apr 2010