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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FilmYou Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Half a decade since his hypnotic feature debut Hiroshima Mon Amour, Alain Resnais’ latest reverie dissects many of the same themes: love and death, per... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013 -
MusicUlrich Schnauss – A Long Way to Fall
Ulrich Schnauss’ finely-honed blend of melodic techno and shoegazey electronica places A Long Way to Fall in the company of similarly blissed-out recor... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013 -
MusicCuddly Shark – The Road to Ugly
Few bands have monikers as apt as Cuddly Shark’s; fun and loveable, but sharp in tooth. Like last year’s Body Mass Index EP and their self-titled... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013 -
Music
Matthew E. White – Big Inner
As well as being the debut album from Richmond, Virginia’s Matthew E White, Big Inner is the vanguard release from Spacebomb, White’s S... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013 -
MusicFat Goth – Stud
“I think you’ve got too much time on your hands,” deadpans Fraser Stewart at the conclusion of the magnificent Debbie’s Dirty Harry, ... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013 -
Music
Everything Everything – Arc
Everything Everything's mission statement is to make pop music that sounds like no one else – a mantra the Manchester-based band have regularly tr... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013
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Music
Plantman – Whispering Trees
Close your eyes during Plantman’s debut album and you’ll be transported back to an era of pre-Britpop Indie. Given Matt Randall’s (AKA Plan... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013 -
Music
Falty DL – Hardcourage
New York's Drew Lustman, aka Falty DL, likes to mess with people's expectations. Influenced by house, garage, RnB and future bass, he never settles on one st... Read more »| 04 Jan 2013 -
Music
Toro Y Moi – Anything in Return
The third LP from Chaz Bundick sees the producer’s lush, pop-oriented blend of house and hip-hop take a bold stride towards the mainstream, without s... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
Music
Miaoux Miaoux tackles January's singles pile
Requesting we keep the identities of the artists secret (“I’m going to try and guess”), Julian Corrie aka Miaoux Miaoux slips on his critic’s hat. “This reviewing gets harder as you go along,” he laughs. “I’m feeling my brain starting to melt a little..." Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
Clubs
DJ Chart: Gerry Blythe (New Life / Kill Yr Idols)
New Life and Kill Yr Idols resident Gerry Blythe brings us a DJ chart full of the kind of upfront, sexy, classic house and disco tracks that have been turning heads at Bar Bloc and the Berkeley Suite, including tracks by Andy Stott, Todd Terje and Adult. Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
Film
Film Event Highlights – January 2013
What better way to kick off the new year than with one of the worst films ever made, Showgirls (14 Jan, GFT)? Paul Verhoeven's 1995 tale of a girl's rise to ... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
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2013's Coming Attractions
What's a fanboy to do? With Batman swanning around Florence drinking Fernet Branca and Iron Man, Thor et al. back to making mediocre movies on their lonesome, things are looking grim. But don't despair: here are some films that might be great in 2013 Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
Music
The Pictish Trail – Secret Soundz Vol. 2
Many artists develop signature sounds; rarer is the musician who accrues several. Johnny Lynch is one of the few to do so successfully, with a palette as d... Read more »| 03 Jan 2013 -
Art
Choose life. Choose economy
A major group show at Stills and CCA explores how the economy impacts on every aspect of life. We stepped off the treadmill briefly to chat to curators Angela Dimitrakaki and Kirsten Lloyd Read more »| 03 Jan 2013