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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MusicAlphabeat - The Beat Is...
Co-opting the sounds of yesteryear is hardly uncommon in pop, but it works better if the chosen template is, say, eighties electro, rather than the shitty fo... Read more »| 22 Feb 2010 -
MusicThe xx @ Studio 24, 9 Mar.
South London band are down a member but up a whole load of compliments. Read more »| 22 Feb 2010 -
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Four Tet @ The Bongo Club, 13 Mar
Given his messianic status, it’d be fair to hail Hebden’s appearance as something of a must see. Read more »| 22 Feb 2010 -
FilmGentlemen Prefer Blondes
This month sees the cinematic re-release of the 1953 hit Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, telling the story of Lorelei (Marilyn Monroe) and Dorothy (Jane Russell), ... Read more »| 22 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: Samurai, Sake and Cyber Dogs
Discover a variety of stories and ideas in this year's Japanese film focus. Read more »| 22 Feb 2010 -
FilmGFF 2010: Yatterman
There's nothing like a cross between Indiana Jones and LazyTown on cocaine to get audiences talking: Yatterman is a wonderfully kooky film which repr... Read more »| 22 Feb 2010
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GFF 2010: Dogtooth
In Yorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth, the outside world is a terrifying place; at least, that's the fiction two parents have concocted for their three grown... Read more »| 22 Feb 2010 -
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Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Last year a couple of L.A. producers gathered an all-star cast of guests for an album about peace, love and understanding: N.A.S.A.'s The Spirit of Apollo wa... Read more »| 22 Feb 2010 -
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Vampire Weekend @ HMV Picture House, 14 Feb
Vampire Weekend’s preppy chic was always going to go down a treat on a school night in Edinburgh, but the ecstatic cheers from teenaged girls suggest t... Read more »| 21 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: The Ghost Show
Roll up, roll up, and experience a unique show about fairgrounds, vaudeville, cinema and an elephant's day out. Read more »| 21 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: About Elly
The true nature of About Elly sneaks up on the audience. Asghar Farhadi's Silver Berlin Bear winner begins as a light-hearted affair with a group of friends ... Read more »| 21 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: Sights and Sounds
We explore the eclectic Music and Film Festival programme. Read more »| 20 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: Beyond the Pole
Poking fun at recent po-faced, Ben Fogle style documentaries, Beyond the Pole follows friends and every-men Brian and Mark (Rhys Thomas and Stephen M... Read more »| 20 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: Court (13) in Session
They make boats which barely float and machines which hardly fly: who on earth are the Court 13 collective? Read more »| 20 Feb 2010 -
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GFF 2010: American: The Bill Hicks Story
When he died at 32, Bill Hicks had been performing stand-up comedy for almost twenty years. In American: The Bill Hicks Story, family and friends trace his t... Read more »| 20 Feb 2010