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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Music
Secret Chiefs 3 - Path of Most Resistance
An absolutely essential release for anyone who wants their music to surprise, inspire and excite. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Music
Editors - An End Has a Start
The borrowed idiosyncrasies that made their debut highly listenable are missed. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Art
RSA Annual Exhibition
Visual monogamy is impossible Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Clubs
Funk D'Void - Lovin'
Lars returns as Funk D'Void with his first solo release in three years Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Music
New Blood: Clean George IV
"Generally speaking, there's always an awful amount of dross and a couple of good things anywhere in the western world..." - George Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Clubs
Dame Shirley Bassey - The Living Tree
A club mix does not a club artist make Read more »| 10 Jun 2007
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Music
Slam - No One Left To Follow
The attention to build on both tracks shows competent understanding of what the modern techno dancefloor requires, while maintaining enough hooks to keep bodies moving. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Music
Queens of the Stone Age - 3's & 7's
A short and sweet southern fried hors d'oeuvre. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Music
Seafood - Love Song / I'll Be There In The Morning
Could be interesting as a performance piece, certainly, but not as recorded work. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Music
Metal Up Your Ass - June 2007
Beckon forth the sun and all its pleasures... with metal. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Music
The Maccabees @ The Garage, 9 May
It's so achingly now, it's almost comical. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Music
Mogwai @ The Liquid Room, 13 May
Mogwai @ The Liquid Room - Ten Years Later! Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Music
Manic Street Preachers @ Barrowlands
Ever the peerless breed, and being served harsh condemnation by their detractors for as long as they've existed, the Manics finally look to be riding somethi... Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Film
Fantastic Four: Reserving Judgement - Surf's Up
Let's be careful not to write movies and actors off before we see them. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Books
The End Of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas
A hugely playful novel, tripping over itself with name-dropping and then theory-dropping. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007