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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ClubsFloating Points @ Melting Pot, The Admiral, 6 October
For the last 11 years and counting, Melting Pot have been purveyors of the finest house and disco, and come Saturday 6 October they welcome none other than S... Read more »| 01 Oct 2012 -
MusicLive Music Highlights – October 2012
With the likes of Alexander Tucker, John Cale, Liars and WHY? swinging through town this month, it seems that as the nights draw in, the freaks come out to play Read more »| 28 Sep 2012 -
Music
Beth Orton – Sugaring Season
Thank God Beth Orton has that voice. Now more than ever, it’s the most pronounced separation between her and the less cool plethora of Radio 2-favoured... Read more »| 28 Sep 2012 -
Music
Omega Male – Omega Male
Omega Male is David Best of Brighton’s Fujiya & Miyagi and Sammy Rubin of Brooklyn’s Project Jenny, Project Jan – a partnership started... Read more »| 28 Sep 2012 -
Music
O2 Love Music Column – October 2012
Fans of art school chanteuse Natasha Khan, better known as Bat For Lashes, will be in for a treat this month. Third album The Haunted Man&nbs... Read more »| 28 Sep 2012 -
MusicCuddly Shark – Body Mass Index EP
As the name implies, Cuddly Shark are as adorable as they are frenzied and ruthless. The Elgin trio follow up their smashing self-titled debut with this st... Read more »| 28 Sep 2012
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Music
Young Smoke – Space Zone
The latest of Planet Mu’s footwork signings, Young Smoke’s approach differs in two distinct ways to the likes of Traxman or Chrissy Murderbot &nd... Read more »| 28 Sep 2012 -
Music
Drcarlsonalbion – La Strega And The Cunning Man In The Smoke
Dylan Carlson's growing obsession with British folkloristics is notably evident in his recent work with Earth, but it's deconstructed to an even greater exte... Read more »| 27 Sep 2012 -
Music
Schneider TM – Construction Sounds
An experimental musician who performs with former members of Neubauten and Can, Schneider TM is probably best known for his beguiling electro cover of The Sm... Read more »| 27 Sep 2012 -
Music
Seirom – 1973
A new double album from a man associated with fearsome black metal (Gnaw Their Tongues, among others) might sound an intimidating prospect. M.C. De Jong&r... Read more »| 27 Sep 2012 -
Music
Y Niwl – 4
Surfing in North Wales may involve a thicker wetsuit and a lot more shivering than its Californian equivalent, but in Y Niwl, the scene’s got a surf-ro... Read more »| 27 Sep 2012 -
MusicMurs X Fashawn – This Generation
Murs is a Los Angeles hip-hop legend, deep in the scene since 1993, with notable releases and collaborations including Felt (a duo he formed with Slug of Atm... Read more »| 26 Sep 2012 -
Clubs
Al Doyle (Hot Chip / LCD Soundsystem) @ Wrong Island, The Berkeley Suite, 5 October
Multi-instrumentalist, DJ and circulating member of Hot Chip, LCD Soundsystem and New Build, Al Doyle's reputation as a man who knows his classic electronic ... Read more »| 26 Sep 2012 -
Music
Thavius Beck – The Most Beautiful Ugly
An instrumental album from rapper and superproducer Thavius Beck has about fifty times as many ideas crammed into it as most hip-hop records, even without hi... Read more »| 26 Sep 2012 -
Music
Moon Duo – Circles
Moon Duo’s debut Mazes invited its listeners to get lost in a sonic labyrinth of stargazing krautrock jams. The title of successor Circl... Read more »| 26 Sep 2012