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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MusicHalf Cousin – Fantasy Belt
Kevin Cormack's adventure through the rugged musical landscape has lasted nearly ten years now; he first surfaced under the name Half Cousin in 2003 workin... Read more »| 25 Jul 2012 -
MusicSerengeti – C.A.R.
Credited to Serengeti, but featuring a three-way collab between the rapper and Anticon mainstays Jel and Odd Nosdam, C.A.R. is a deliciously loose and acces... Read more »| 25 Jul 2012 -
MusicOpossom – Electric Hawaii
On Electric Hawaii, New Zealand’s Kody Neilson has honed an infectious strain of Motown-inspired psych-pop. It’s a densely-layered record, comb... Read more »| 25 Jul 2012 -
Books
Redlegs by Chris Dolan
Chris Dolan leaves the mainly Glaswegian setting of his previous novel Ascension Day and relocates to the Caribbean for this tale. Elspeth Baillie,... Read more »| 25 Jul 2012 -
Books
Days of the Bagnold Summer by Joff Winterheart
Days of the Bagnold Summer is a short book – 80 pages, and only a few panels per page – but it’s never slight. Sue and Daniel Bagnold are a... Read more »| 25 Jul 2012 -
BooksClose Your Eyes by Ewan Morrison
After the birth of her daughter, Emma Phillips becomes obsessed with the death – or was it? – of her own mother in a road accident. The body... Read more »| 25 Jul 2012
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Music
The Apples – Fly On It
Israeli 'post-funk' band The Apples are obviously a tight band, trading funk licks on drums, bass, turntables, trumpet, trombone and sax with finely-honed pr... Read more »| 25 Jul 2012 -
MusicBabe, Terror – Knights EP
Sao Paolo's Babe, Terror are a little bit like the sonic equivalent of a Magic Eye poster. At first you stare and stare at the minimal, stripped down, effect... Read more »| 25 Jul 2012 -
Music
Bis / We Are the Physics @ Mono, 19 July
When not recording solo or infrequently gigging with Bis, Manda Rin likes to paint. Tonight’s show launches her Cover Versions and Other Hits exhibitio... Read more »| 25 Jul 2012 -
Music
Para One – Passion
The new album from Jean-Baptiste Laubier, aka Para One, incorporates a swathe of influences from the Parisian's varied career. As the producer behind the b... Read more »| 24 Jul 2012 -
Music
Hector Bizerk – Drums. Rap. Yes.
“I wanna be in one of those bands with pointy shoes and haircuts like Paul Weller,” says rapper Louie on the opening track of Hector Bizerk's f... Read more »| 24 Jul 2012 -
Music
Seams – Tourist / Sleeper
Split into two musical 'journeys,' Seams latest mini-album, comprising new material (Sleeper) and a well-deserved re-up of last year's Tourist EP, is an eleg... Read more »| 24 Jul 2012 -
Music
Wu Legends @ O2ABC, 12 July
If there’s one glaring factor that might stand to soil the Wu-Tang Clan’s legacy, it’s a no-show. Here tonight under the ‘Wu Legends&... Read more »| 23 Jul 2012 -
Film
Delicacy
Delicacy offers two love stories for the price of one: a marriage cut short by a traffic accident, and the tentative relationship between widow Nathalie (Tau... Read more »| 23 Jul 2012 -
Film
Airborne
Airborne opens with the UK gripped by severe storms: shop fronts blown out, transport networks gubbed – typical summer weather basically. It’s th... Read more »| 23 Jul 2012