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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MusicSpiritualized in the next dimension
In time-worn tradition, Spiritualized frontman Jason Pierce finds that there's nothing quite like dying to propel the artist's work into the public consciousness. So he did it, twice! Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
BooksA Good and Happy Child by Justin Evans
Evans seems to have written this with a film treatment already in mind Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Music
Green Peppers - Adventures in the Slipstream
An album safe to cosy up to, if not to entirely enliven the spirits Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
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Lykke Li - Breaking It Up
Breaking It Up is essentially an incredibly silly pop song done very well. At the core is a soft kick-drum embellished with handclaps and Lykke Li's velvet-... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
ClubsRobert Hood @ Monox, Soundhaus, 23 Aug
Monox should be extremely proud to bring one of the greatest legends of Detroit techno to the Soundhaus. As one of the founding members of the influential Un... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
MusicNouvelle Vague @ The Liquid Room, 8 Aug
Oozing Gallic charm as they work their way through their second night of sexy Bossa Nova'd 1980s hits Read more »| 12 Aug 2008
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Clubs
How's Your Party? @ Sub Club, 29 Aug
The How’s Your Party crew throw their second bi-monthly Friday-nighter, welcoming the return of A-Trak and Sinden. The youngest ever DMC world champio... Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
Music
Earlimart - Hymn and Her
Returning with their sixth album, Earlimart continue to craft Death Cab-lite songs heavy on oh-so-sincere soporific sensitivity but light on anything with th... Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
Music
Drive-By Truckers @ The Liquid Room, 6 Aug
The Truckers play up to their slack-jawed stereotype, but there's much more to this lot than the typecast Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
Music
Bowerbirds - Hymns for a Dark Horse
Winds its way through a faintly Slavic wilderness, trailing alluring poetry behind Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
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Pivot - O Soundtrack My Heart
‘Soundtrack’, it seems, is the operative word for this second album from antipodean electro-garage rockers Pivot. Opening duo In The Blood and th... Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
Theatre
The Factory @ Southside Zoo, 3-25 Sep
Bristol-based physical theatre gets political and aggressive. Another hit from the Southside Zoo. Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
MusicShout Out Louds @ Cabaret Voltaire, 7 Aug
The sort of harmless, sugary indie-pop that American film and TV studios dribble over Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
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The Icarus Line @ King Tut's, 6 Aug
The Icarus Line look as though they could still take on the world, the question is whether they really want to Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
Music
Jaguar Love - Take Me To The Sea
Whitney's shrill squealing does the otherwise fine instrumentation on this debut album from Jaguar Love absolutely no favours Read more »| 11 Aug 2008