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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TheatreLove and Other Strangers
There are two sides to every story and Colin Garrow’s new comedy Love Song in Sixteen Bars is no exception Read more »| 26 Apr 2010 -
MusicCocoRosie - Grey Oceans
Grey Oceans – the fourth album from the US-born, Paris-based sisters Casady – is a schizophrenic and intense tug o’ war. Eerie open... Read more »| 23 Apr 2010 -
Music
Wildbirds & Peacedrums - Retina EP
Having recovered from troublesome clouds of volcanic sulphur, Scotland faces a far more devastating Icelandic invasion. Though Swedish by nationality, Wildbi... Read more »| 23 Apr 2010 -
Music
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Cosmogramma begins with sledgehammer beats, but quickly mutates. A wafting haze of analogue clicks and dust permeate the veins of this intriguing record, len... Read more »| 23 Apr 2010 -
Music
Hrdvsion - Where Did You Just Go?
Billed as the record on which he embraces the DJ's primary task of pleasing the crowd, Where Did You Just Go? begs another question: just what did Hrdvsion s... Read more »| 23 Apr 2010 -
Music
Eagleowl - Into the Fold EP
Moody and atmospheric, Eagleowl deliver a complex and weighty EP with Into the Fold. Bookended by the doleful title track and sombre but triumphant N... Read more »| 23 Apr 2010
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MusicMike Patton - Mondo Cane
Musically, there's not much ground that Mike Patton hasn't covered, and yet it was with a pang of delicious surprise that we welcomed the news of Mondo Cane:... Read more »| 22 Apr 2010 -
MusicFuture Islands - In Evening Air
From the opening refrain of Baltimore trio Future Islands’ official sophomore release we’re met by the rabid growl of singer and lynchpin Sam Her... Read more »| 22 Apr 2010 -
Music
Steve Mason - Boys Outside
The post-split material released by ex-Beta Band members has been almost as enigmatic as the group’s seminal output on their three EPs and albums. Sing... Read more »| 22 Apr 2010 -
ArtJim Lambie Metal Urbain @ Modern Institute
The behemoth that is the GI International Festival of Visual Art keeps rumbling along, with Jim Lambie’s solo exhibition marking the opening of the Mod... Read more »| 22 Apr 2010 -
Music
The Tivoli Vs. Cabaret Voltaire - National Service Rewind
Cabaret Voltaire don’t need much of an introduction – if they weren’t long-established scene vanguards, Blair Street proprietors mi... Read more »| 22 Apr 2010 -
Art
Christoph Büchel @ Tramway
If your taste runs to big, immersive, visceral work that swallows you whole, leads you through an unknown realm and spits you out, bewildered, shaken and sub... Read more »| 22 Apr 2010 -
Music
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
The first thing James Murphy ever did as LCD Soundsystem frontman was confess to a serious music addiction. Losing My Edge, his 2002 debut single, was an acu... Read more »| 22 Apr 2010 -
Art
Benny Merris: Bubble and Squeak
Benny Merris has been smoking it up in Amsterdam. He's been going through a hashish Renaissance, he tells me, and it shows. Each of the 19 paintings exhibite... Read more »| 21 Apr 2010 -
Theatre
The Cherry Orchard
When Chekhov wrote the Cherry Orchard his first audience was his wife, who promptly burst into tears upon finishing it, pissing the great man off no end; he had intended it as a comedy. Read more »| 21 Apr 2010