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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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 -
MusicRockNess 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 -
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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 -
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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
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
TheatreGlas(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 -
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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 -
Music
Ambulances: A Strange Arrangement
Psychedelic indie oddities Ambulances are a band intent on remaining a mystery. The Skinny speaks to singer Sara Colston in the quest for a straightforward answer. Read more »| 15 Feb 2010 -
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Panda Su - Sticks and Bricks
What’s that Sooty? You can’t decide whether Panda Su is a breath of fresh air or a stale sigh of nothingness? That’s quite a pickle, my yel... Read more »| 15 Feb 2010