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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ClubsWitness Presents Claude VonStroke
It might be mad, but it’s true. Sneaky’s is going super-sized for the night as Witness host the big-fun maximalism of Claude VonStroke in an inti... Read more »| 23 Apr 2012 -
Books
The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey
The Chemistry of Tears is fresh from the pen of Peter Carey, the guy who did more for Ned Kelly than Ned ever did for himself. This time Carey does the same ... Read more »| 22 Apr 2012 -
MusicMastodon: "Record Store Day is about remembering your roots"
As the clock struck midnight on Record Store Day 2012, we talked to Mastodon's Bill Kelliher about the importance of the occasion and the band's split single with Feist Read more »| 21 Apr 2012 -
MusicGraham Coxon @ The Garage, 17 April
Betatone Distraction look rather pleased with themselves tonight, as well they might: for each stop of his tour, Mr Coxon has sought nominations for support ... Read more »| 20 Apr 2012 -
Music
Meshuggah @ The Garage, 15 April
Devout fans of tonight's headliners give We Are Knuckle Dragger a hard time for their rawer, relatively less technical sound, but they sure as hell get the ... Read more »| 20 Apr 2012 -
Music
Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury – DROKK: Music Inspired By Mega-City One
Geoff Barrow of Portishead and film score composer Ben Salisbury have created something truly original in DROKK, their soundtrack for Mega-City One, home o... Read more »| 20 Apr 2012
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FilmBreathing
Non-professional actor Thomas Schubert excells as Roman Kogler, a sullen youth in a juvenile detention centre who must succeed in his new day-release job as ... Read more »| 20 Apr 2012 -
Music
Monoganon @ CCA, 13 April
Perfectly coupled with the vérité style film clips of botanic gardens and Scandinavian skylines projected above the band, Monoganon, the brai... Read more »| 20 Apr 2012 -
MusicForget Me Not ft. Neo – What Were You Gonna Say?
A new electronic label based in Edinburgh, Diamond & Raw have looked beyond the capital for their first release. Production talent is courtesy of Brist... Read more »| 19 Apr 2012 -
Music
Anathema – Weather Systems
Anathema's early contributions to doom metal are easy to disregard when they've been riding on the soft rock train with such grace for so long. If 2010's W... Read more »| 19 Apr 2012 -
Film
Director Xavier Gens on The Divide
Xavier Gens speaks to The Skinny about his new film The Divide, a grisly post-apocalyptic sci-fi horror hybrid. Like his previous efforts Frontier(s) and Hitman, it's not one to go to with your granny Read more »| 19 Apr 2012 -
Music
Ufomammut – Oro: Opus Primum
Ufomammut have been significant players in a well-populated heavy metal sect for some time now. Honourable disciples of sludge, these Italians are ever-dev... Read more »| 17 Apr 2012 -
Music
Cancer Bats – Dead Set on Living
Some fans may be pleased to know that the slow-burning artiness of Cancer Bats' 2010 offering Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones is dropped for a slicker, mor... Read more »| 17 Apr 2012 -
Film
The Divide
The title of Xavier Gens’ gristly post-apocalyptic survival movie is working on a myriad of levels. Firstly, it’s the heavy duty door that separa... Read more »| 16 Apr 2012 -
Music
Kassidy – One Man Army
It’s always easy to pick on a soft target. But, just why Kassidy seem to have provoked such vitriol in certain corners of the music community is perpl... Read more »| 13 Apr 2012