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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MusicUniversal Sex Arena – Women Will Be Girls
Look beyond the sleazy triumvirate of band name, album title and cover art (a kitsch bunga bunga fantasy in pen and watercolour), and the debut album from ... Read more »| 01 Feb 2013 -
ArtHenry Coombes – The Twilight Zone
He insists he’s not a curator, but the spectacular night of artists’ film and live performance he’s put together begs to differ. We chat to Henry Coombes ahead of his genre-bending GFF event Read more »| 01 Feb 2013 -
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Own Art @ Peacock Visual Arts
Our Art Editor takes a look at the events and facilities on offer at the Peacock Visual Arts centre Read more »| 01 Feb 2013 -
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A Bogan Abroad: Anticipating the Future
Among the spectres of GSA’s Mackintosh Museum Polish artist Mariusz Tarkawian predicts the art of the future. Peter Drew puts his crystal ball to the test Read more »| 31 Jan 2013 -
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Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – What the Brothers Sang
Last year, Dawn McCarthy and Will Oldham channelled their mutual passion for The Everly Brothers into a festive 7” containing a brace of cover versio... Read more »| 31 Jan 2013 -
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Death Becomes Them: Frightened Rabbit talk Pedestrian Verse
Frightened Rabbit look poised to take their emotional and anthemic sound to a wider audience with the release of Pedestrian Verse. We caught up with Scott, Grant and Gordon ahead of the impending tumult to talk life, death and the wisdom of Stereophonics Read more »| 31 Jan 2013
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MusicThao and the Get Down Stay Down – We the Common
On her third album as Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, Thao Nguyen’s nimble genre borrowings pay great dividends. There are touches of porch-front ... Read more »| 31 Jan 2013 -
MusicO2 Love Music Column – February 2013
Having pioneered many of the DJ techniques we take for granted to this day, Joseph Saddler, or Grandmaster Flash if you will, has assured his place in the hi... Read more »| 31 Jan 2013 -
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Godsticks – The Envisage Conundrum
The windy-yet-catchy songs laid to tape by Godsticks on their second full-length brings to mind like-minded outfits like Oceansize or Porcupine Tree, but s... Read more »| 31 Jan 2013 -
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Tristan Coleman – Still Life with Sound EP
This EP is Tristan Coleman’s debut release, but the Melbourne-based singer/composer/multi-instrumentalist already evinces an unusual breadth of visi... Read more »| 31 Jan 2013 -
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Fuzzy Lights – Rule of Twelfths
Rule of Twelfths refines an aesthetic nine years and three albums in the making, as Cambridgeshire quintet Fuzzy Lights tweak their pastoral-folk-meets-pos... Read more »| 31 Jan 2013 -
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The Metal Column – February 2013
Now you've beaten those stinking January blues, it's time to get back in the circle-pit and lose your mind, droogs. For a kick off, you could either hit up ... Read more »| 31 Jan 2013 -
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David Bazan @ Broadcast, 28 January
Since 2006, Seattle’s David Bazan has been through a tortured renunciation of Christianity, disbanded Pedro the Lion and Headphones, released two s... Read more »| 30 Jan 2013 -
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The Pictish Trail / Rozi Plain @ The Glasgow Art Club, 24 January
Despite its air of exclusivity (playfully mocked multiple times by tonight’s headliner), the Glasgow Art Club proves to be a felicitously intimate se... Read more »| 30 Jan 2013 -
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The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 30 January
Lineups for Knockengorroch, Bearded Theory, Beacon and SunSplash festivals; new videos from Grizzly Bear, Soundgarden, Karl Bartos and Animal Collective; Bjork's new Kickstarter project; plus comedian Michael J. Dolan on Woman's Hour Read more »| 30 Jan 2013