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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ArtAgainst Anti-Intellectualism @ SWG3
On the exhibition’s poster is written its title in block capital letters in black tape. Its visceral nature little correlates with what one imagi... Read more »| 25 Oct 2011 -
Music
Yusaf Azak – Prizefighter EP
Having previously released an album with locally respected Edinburgh based label Song, by Toad, Yusaf Azak has chosen to release this EP on his lonesome thro... Read more »| 25 Oct 2011 -
MusicMarble Valley – Breakthrough
Having ex-Pavement and Silver Jews drummer Steve West at the helm has consistently led globe-spanning collective Marble Valley towards the slacker cool of hi... Read more »| 25 Oct 2011 -
MusicLou Reed & Metallica – Lulu
A collaboration between Velvet Underground founder Lou Reed and thrash pioneers Metallica is indeed as bizarre as it sounds. Read: Lulu is a 90 minute concep... Read more »| 24 Oct 2011 -
Music
Sandro Perri – Impossible Spaces
Sandro Perri – best known for his work under the Polmo Polpo moniker – combines relaxing, intimate folk and long, meandering instrumental section... Read more »| 24 Oct 2011 -
Film
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Loosely based on the true story of serial killer Henry Lee Lucas, who confessed to over 600 murders, John McNaughton's controversial magnum opus is as far fr... Read more »| 24 Oct 2011
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Film
In the Realm of the Senses
A film based on the exploits of a woman who carried her lover's severed penis around in her handbag really ought to be more entertaining than this. Director... Read more »| 24 Oct 2011 -
Music
Sonic Youth – Hits Are For Squares
Hits Are For Squares sees a gallery of pop culture's most credible Generation X-ers chipping in with their nomination for Sonic Youth's most killer anti-cla... Read more »| 24 Oct 2011 -
ArtWarp And Woof @ CCA
Artists Anna Barham (London) and Bea Mahon (Dublin) show together for the first time at CCA’s exhibition Warp and Woof. Both originally studied mathema... Read more »| 24 Oct 2011 -
Music
Tom Waits – Bad As Me
Tom Waits' music does what all great art should, it creates worlds. His is a universe as vivid and colourful as any film despite the fact they’re birth... Read more »| 24 Oct 2011 -
Music
Fruit Tree Foundation Showcase @ Nobles, 20 October
Mentors Withered Hand, James Yorkston and Rod Jones performed with upcoming songwriters Marie Collins, Liz Cronin and Lucy Cathcart Frödén to sho... Read more »| 21 Oct 2011 -
Film
The Yellow Sea
Here director Hong-jin Na looks beyond Hollywood’s horizon of expectation and makes the outsider cliché contemporary with a story initially livi... Read more »| 21 Oct 2011 -
Music
Herman Dune @ King Tut's, 16 October
In recent months, Jon Hamm, a blue yeti, and a Spanish lager endorsement have proffered two versions of the perfect Herman Dune show. The Hamm-and-furball-st... Read more »| 21 Oct 2011 -
Music
Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat – Cruel Summer EP
To coincide with what Aidan Moffat calls his ‘first proper tour in five years’ the former Arab Strap raconteur and current collaborator Bill Well... Read more »| 19 Oct 2011 -
Comedy
Terra Nova – Sexy TV?
I like to rate the shows I watch on a scientifically acknowledged scale known as “IF THIS SHOW HAD TITS, HOW MUCH WOULD I WANT TO FUCK IT?’Steven... Read more »| 19 Oct 2011