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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FilmThe September Issue
The September Issue documents the preparations for the largest ever issue of Vogue, while trying to gain some insight into the woman behind it all, Anna Wint... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
MusicX-Lion Tamer @ National Portrait Gallery, 21 Aug
Nestled into the central alcove of the National Portrait Gallery, in front of a 13ft graffiti mural of Jesus, Tony Taylor and his preppy v-neck is a somewhat... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
Books
The Death of Bunny Munro, by Nick Cave
Yes, that Nick Cave, musician extraordinaire. This isn’t his first foray into fiction – he scripted a well-received film, the Australian Western ... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
Books
Christopher Brookmyre: Creating Pandaemonium
A chat with Christopher Brookmyre about his new book, Pandaemonium, demons, quantum physics, and the nature of reality. Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
Music
Alice in Chains – Black Gives Way to Blue
Seattle survivors make good with their first studio album in 14 years Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
MusicVivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong
The second full-length from Brooklyn's Vivian Girls is a bit like a Woody Allen film: the plot has moved on, but the main ingredients remain resolutely the s... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009
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Music
The Victorian English Gentlemens Club – Love On An Oil Rig
Wilfully weird, The Victorian English Gentlemens Club are a band that will remain half-hidden in the darker extremities of British indie. No T4 spots, Radio ... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
BooksBletherheads, The Electric Circus, 29 Aug
AL Kennedy, Tam Dean Burn and Somerset Maugham award winner Rodge Glass are invited by the organisers of DiScomBoBuLate to show what they can do in a new per... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
Music
Enfant Bastard - Hunks Killing Arm/Accelerated Donkey Song (Leaf Style)
Cameron Watt should be designated a National Treasure. Even in a country so ludicrously teaming with musical talent, Watt's single-minded devotion to the DIY... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
Music
Christ. - Distance Lends Enchantment to the View
Some people struggle to shake off an association. There are those who pander to the expectation that comes with that association, and there are others (Chris... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
Music
Mew - No More Stories...
Alas, it seems unlikely that as a consequence of No More Stories, Mew are going to escape the all-too frequent comparisons with ethereal Icelanders Sigur R&o... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
Music
Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk
Americana supergroup hit the spot with superb debut release Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
Music
++Money Can't Buy Music - The Universe for Beginners
Gordon McIntyre has steadfastedly ploughed the emotive indie furrow since the late 1990s in the guise of ballboy, but here branches out into a collaboration ... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
Music
The Dodos - Time to Die
Second album syndrome shouldn’t affect The Dodos’ latest LP - Time to Die is actually the San Francisco outfit’s third studio recording. Ye... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
Music
Chuck Ragan - Gold Country
Citing “musical differences” after a band splits is generally doublespeak aimed at sparing blushes until the bloody truth makes its inevitable ap... Read more »| 24 Aug 2009