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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TheatreNederlands Dans Theater 2 @ EFT
Popular dance company NDT2 perform to enraptured audiences at Edinburgh's Festival Theatre. Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
TheatreLong Day’s Journey Into Night @ Theatre Royal
Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer winning autobiographical play charts the slow, slow destruction of a family as they tear each apart from the inside. Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
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Dance Maximus @ Buzzcut
Dance Maximus are coming for you, your brothers and sisters - and your firstborn. Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
TheatreIAM @ Tramway
IAM captures music, movement and moments of magic. Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
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Goddess @ The Storytelling Centre
“The earth is trembling with the promise of a new wave,” announce three actresses. Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
ArtCancer Sucks: The Honest Death of Tutu the Feminist Performance Artist
Stephanie Torrance looks at how feminist artists are dealing with breast cancer. Read more »| 11 May 2012
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Music
Holy Mountain / Happy Particles / Body Parts @ Mono, 5 May
From the divine to the ridiculously heavy, as Holy Mountain kick out jams straddling the vintage and the envelope-pushing. Read more »| 10 May 2012 -
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Nasty P – Story So Far
Story So Far by Nasty P is a cohesive, satisfying collection of hip-hop cuts aimed squarely at the dancefloor. Read more »| 10 May 2012 -
FilmThe Raid
Unlikely pairings can be perfect. Indonesian film The Raid centres around a police bust in a large tower block filled with criminals, guns, and machetes; unl... Read more »| 10 May 2012 -
Music
King Tuff – King Tuff
Even if this brand of finely tuned garage rock is not entirely groundbreaking, and the infectious vocal hooks on each track are largely some variation on c... Read more »| 09 May 2012 -
Music
Cornershop – Urban Turban
Cornershop have been releasing records for more than 20 years but are still bizarrely viewed in some quarters as one-hit-wonders. It's an entirely undeserv... Read more »| 09 May 2012 -
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Track-by-track: El-P Unveils Cancer4Cure
Pushing hip-hop ever forward with his first full-blown album in five years, maverick Brooklyn producer El-P explains Cancer4Cure's compelling origins Read more »| 09 May 2012 -
Film
West Meets East: Director Gareth Evans on The Raid
He's the man behind the most exciting martial arts movie to come out of Asia in years. His name is Gareth Evans... and he's Welsh. We spoke to the talented director after his blistering new film The Raid closed GFF 2012's FrightFest in style Read more »| 09 May 2012 -
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Still Flyin' – On a Bedroom Wall
The second LP from San Francisco’s Still Flyin’ takes its cues from the dreamy atmospheres of understated 80s indie; the textures of opener Els... Read more »| 08 May 2012 -
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Dead Mellotron – Glitter
Given the celebrated output of Deerhunter/Atlas Sound foreman Bradford Cox, it’s surprising just how few imitators he has. There’s good reason fo... Read more »| 08 May 2012