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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FilmChris Weitz: Hollywood Chameleon
Genre hopping director Chris Weitz swaps sparkly vampires for real stakes in humanistic drama A Better Life Read more »| 29 Jul 2011 -
Music
The Icarus Line – Wildlife
A solo album in all but name (its working title was Joe Cardamone Versus The Icarus Line), Wildlife is a sporadically impressive outing that nevertheless fal... Read more »| 29 Jul 2011 -
Art
Mach Meets His Maker
A mere couple of weeks before his show opens at City Art Centre, David Mach finds time for a wee blether with The Skinny Read more »| 29 Jul 2011 -
FilmCaptain America : The First Avenger
With its star spangled coming attraction posters, there was a concern among non-US jingoists that Captain America: The First Avenger would arrive in cinemas ... Read more »| 29 Jul 2011 -
Books
Tretower to Clyro:Essays by Karl Miller
This is a genial collection of essays by an esteemed critic, including a foreword by one of his friends, Andrew O’Hagan, and pieces on his frie... Read more »| 29 Jul 2011 -
MusicRetox – Ugly Animals
Somewhat predictably for a band containing two members of The Locust, Ipecac's latest progeny specialise in envelope-pushing musical lunacy of the 100mph ext... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011
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MusicGrumbling Fur – Furrier
Even without knowing the illustrious pedigree behind Grumbling Fur, from Furfather’s gently shimmering ambience it’s already possible to see Guap... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011 -
Music
Metaltech – Burn Your Planet
How do you take a band like Metaltech, a nu-industrial trio with a love of Kiss-esque greasepaint and early 90s rock and techno? On one hand you have the alb... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011 -
MusicPaul Vickers and the Vicarage – Oom-pah!
There are some releases that even the most determined of pedants couldn’t pigeonhole and with Oom-pah’s trauma-inducing collision of avant-garde ... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011 -
Music
The Count & Sinden – Mega Mega Remix
Mega Mega Remix strikes as a particularly masochistic record for The Count & Sinden (or their label?) to commission: though a patchy affair, Mega Mega Re... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011 -
Music
Wooden Shjips – West
Gone is the lo-fi fugue of Wooden Shjips’ DIY recordings: West marks the San Franciscan psych-rock disciples’ debut in a “proper studio&rdq... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011 -
Film
Limitless
Limitless takes the headlines about American students who have been enhancing their exam performance with drugs and turns them into a slickly enjoyable thril... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011 -
Art
Sam Stead @ Patriothall Gallery
Taking the error message – familiar to those well versed in computer programming – ‘object reference not set to an instance of an object&r... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011 -
Books
The Immaculate Heart by Andrew Raymond Drennan
This book, his second published work, is something of a leap forward for Andrew Raymond Drennan, with his prose in particular significantly more confident th... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011 -
Books
A Summer of Drowning by John Burnside
John Burnside's eighth novel is both an evolution of his previous work and an entirely self-contained fable. It is set in the Norwegian Arctic Circle... Read more »| 27 Jul 2011