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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MusicStumbleine – Spiderwebbed
Transcending the alternately melancholy and blissful post-dubstep of his self-released EPs, Stumbleine explores a breathtakingly broad range of sounds on Spi... Read more »| 30 Oct 2012 -
Music
O2 Love Music Column – November 2012
Having bubbled under the surface since their 2010 debut album Innerspeaker, Australian psychedelic rockers Tame Impala look ready to boil over with their sec... Read more »| 30 Oct 2012 -
FilmA Simple Life
In perhaps the ultimate example of method acting, Andy Lau has spent his life as godson to Deanie Ip before playing opposite her in a dramatic role that mirr... Read more »| 30 Oct 2012 -
MusicPseudo Nippon – Colorama
The main difference between London-based Pseudo Nippon's second full-length and debut Universal Pork Tai Chi lies in the project's membership, whic... Read more »| 30 Oct 2012 -
ArtJill Todd Photo Award @ Whitespace
The Jill Todd Photographic Award is a new national award for emerging photographers in Scotland. Jill Todd was a talented young photographer who tragically d... Read more »| 29 Oct 2012 -
Music
Pangaea – Release
Hessle Audio's impressive back catalogue of high-sheen, experimental future bass goes back to 2007, with releases from leading lights such as Ramadanman and ... Read more »| 29 Oct 2012
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MusicCheval Sombre – Mad Love
Cheval Sombre has friends in high places. The second album from upstate New Yorker Christoper Propora features both members of MGMT and was co-produced by Sp... Read more »| 29 Oct 2012 -
Film
Rust and Bone
Switching gear again after the brilliant yet very different The Beat That My Heart Skipped and A Prophet, writer/director Jacques Audiard comes slightly unst... Read more »| 29 Oct 2012 -
Music
Sparks @ HMV Picture House, 21 October
For their 2 Hands 1 Mouth tour, Sparks have kept their overheads low: the voice of Russell, the key-playing hands of Ron, and nothing else. It’s bold, ... Read more »| 29 Oct 2012 -
Film
The Master
The Master opens at the close of WWII with sailor Freddie Quell (Phoenix), our perpetually horny hero, caressing a crumbling female sand sculpture. The rest ... Read more »| 29 Oct 2012 -
Music
Ogre – 194
Ogre, also known as Monster! Monster! has established a reputation as an unmissable live performer, sharing the bill with bass music legends such as Caspa, P... Read more »| 29 Oct 2012 -
Comedy
James Dowdeswell and Vladimir McTavish: The Grain And The Grape
Booze and comedy go well together, but James Dowdeswell and Vlad McTavish are setting out to get you off the lager and onto something with more class Read more »| 28 Oct 2012 -
Music
Prince Rama – Top 10 Hits of the End of the World
At first glance it would be rather easy to lump Prince Rama (aka sisters Taraka and Nimai Larson) in with the plethora of pseudo-mystical culture vultures ... Read more »| 26 Oct 2012 -
Music
Darren Hayman and the Long Parliament – The Violence
For the concluding instalment of his ‘Essex trilogy’, Darren Hayman rewinds the clock a few hundred years. The first two parts surveyed the songw... Read more »| 26 Oct 2012 -
Music
Monokle – Saints
St. Petersburg-based producer Monokle's fifth album, his first for Ki, a boutique label set up in 2009, is a glorious trek through glitch, IDM and experiment... Read more »| 26 Oct 2012