Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
-
MusicBomb The Bass - Back To Light
Tim Simenon, former poster boy of the DJ sampling revolution in the 1980s, has reinvented himself under the Bomb The Bass moniker with each successive album.... Read more »| 17 Feb 2010 -
ArtJulian Oliver @ Hannah Maclure Centre
For any gallery-goer justifiably wary of safe, cutesy painting, the process behind Julian Oliver’s solo show Back Buffer reveals a welcome hyper-violen... Read more »| 17 Feb 2010 -
MusicGil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
Socio-political funk pioneer, revered poet, arguably one of the godfathers of the hip-hop scene, Gil Scott-Heron has suffered at the hands of addiction and i... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010 -
Music
RockNess 2010 @ Clune Farm, Dores, 11-13 Jun
Only five years have passed since Fatboy Slim first engaged some witty word play and introduced Loch Ness to camping for the beat-loving hedonist under the b... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010 -
MusicYeongene - Bonnie Gene
Two worlds collide on this first European release from South Korean chanteuse Yeongene. So there's the far eastern element, and there's a flavour of Glaswegi... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010 -
Music
Spoon @ King Tut's, 14 Feb
It pays to have influential friends. First White Rabbits acquire the production skills of Britt Daniel for second album It’s Frightening, then the Spoo... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010
-
Music
Hot Chip @ HMV Picture House, 13 Feb
Hot Chip attract an unusual Saturday night audience blend: part muso, part fashionista, part clubber. So credit to support band Casiokids for appealing to al... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010 -
Art
Public Image @ The Cooper Gallery
The Cooper Gallery’s new group show Public Image takes as its theme the ambiguous relationship between ‘us’ and images. Even the greenest o... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010 -
Art
Facing East @ Manchester Art Gallery
Even though it’s Chinese New Year and Chinese lanterns adorn Albert Square, Manchester City Gallery’s newest exhibition of work from East Asia is... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010 -
Music
Charles Hayward @ CCA, 25 Mar
As one-third of influential vangardists This Heat, drummer/composer/singer Hayward reconsidered the experimentalism of krautrock by way of punk’s unequ... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010 -
Music
Harvey Milk - Harvey Milk
Way back when they were completely unknown, these sludgelords recorded an ultra-crushing debut with Bob Weston (the other Shellac guy) behind the helm. The s... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010 -
Theatre
Glas(s) Act
Glas(s) introduce us to that rare beast - a married couple... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010 -
Film
The Headless Woman
In Lucrecia Martel's The Headless Woman, all it takes is a bump on the head to throw the central character's whole world out of sync. Verónica... Read more »| 15 Feb 2010 -
Music
Quasi - American Gong
Quasi have always been seen as something of a footnote in the history of American alternative rock - this despite the band's inherent likeability and a strin... Read more »| 15 Feb 2010 -
Music
Pontiak - Sea Voids
Bookended by doom-laced instrumentals that border on boogie, this confusing nine-song album skips impulsively from acoustic ballads and subdued soft rock to ... Read more »| 15 Feb 2010