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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MusicThe Horrors / TOY @ The Liquid Room, 16 January
From the ashes of Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong, London quintet TOY are more in thrall to the magpie-like sensibilities of their current tour mates than ... Read more »| 25 Jan 2012 -
MusicSpeech Debelle – Freedom of Speech
Speech won a Mercury for her debut – the intimate, confrontational confessional of Speech Therapy. On Freedom Of Speech she turns her attention outward... Read more »| 25 Jan 2012 -
Comedy
What do comedians expect from reviewers?
Reviewers are an occupational hazard for comedians, but who reviews the reviewers? Local legend Teddy tells us what he'd like to see in critics. Read more »| 25 Jan 2012 -
BooksThe Last Holiday by Gil Scott-Heron
The Last Holiday is a deeply personal, if self-conscious, telling of Gil Scott-Heron’s life. The writer and musician’s early life is described fr... Read more »| 25 Jan 2012 -
Art
Jane and Louise Wilson: Artists Without Borders
Photography of the atomic city of Pripyat, abandoned after Chernobyl, and video work exploring the hotel room location of a Hamas leader's murder – Jane and Louise Wilson arrive at DCA Read more »| 25 Jan 2012 -
Music
FOE – Bad Dream Hotline
First off, if you're eagerly reading this article in anticipation of new material from the brilliant mathematical prog/jazz/hardcore outfit that graced the H... Read more »| 25 Jan 2012
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Music
RM Hubbert – Thirteen Lost & Found
First & Last was perhaps ungenerously characterised as a ‘low-key introduction’ to RM Hubbert’s solo methods within these pages as we g... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
Music
Clutch @ Bar Bloc, 20 January
Clutch successfully grafts its big sound to the small stage of Bar Bloc. Chaos ensues... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
Music
United Fruit @ King Tut's, 16 January
After an acoustic warm-up session in the downstairs bar from Jonathan Snee (Flood of Red), Kings Tut's New Years Revolution series continues with a set from ... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
Music
A Winged Victory for the Sullen @ Òran Mór, 15 January
“You can keep chatting – Dustin’s just having a meltdown,” explains A Winged Victory for the Sullen’s Adam Wiltzie as their exp... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
Music
M83 / Porcelain Raft @ The Arches, 19 January
Like post-Fromageau M83, Porcelain Raft is effectively one man’s nom de plume, but, also like M83, Mauro Remiddi is not performing alone, with live dru... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
MusicMull Historical Society – City Awakenings
After two albums under his own name, Colin MacIntyre has readopted his former moniker for the first time in eight years. While the intervening releases only ... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
Film
Rolling Thunder
With a script written by Paul Schrader, Rolling Thunder is an unlikely cut-and-paste job between a classic 70s meditation on damaged masculinity and a brutal... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
Film
Albatross
Leather clad tearaway and wannabe writer Emilia (Findlay) takes a job at a hotel on the South Coast run by the dysfunctional Fischer family. She forms an unl... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
Books
Exile by Jakob Ejersbo
Exile is set in Tanzania in the late 1980s and follows the late teenage years of Samantha, a second generation ex-pat. Packed off to an international board... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012