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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Clubs
Andrew Weatherall: It's Only Rock 'n' Roll But I Like It
Standfirst: From early creative efforts as a member of the Boys Own collective and his producer/remixer role in the early nineties indie-dance axis, to his seminal club nights, Sabresonic and Bloodsugar, and recordings as Sabres of Paradise and Two Lone Swordsman, Andrew Weatherall has continually stamped his own, maverick approach on proceedings.
PQ: ""Primeval, visceral, poor folk's rebel dance music.""
Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
ClubsCristian Vogel - Double Deux / Delicado
Does anyone remember when Christian Vogel just made music? Wasn't he one of those ""pioneering wonky techno"" types? Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
ClubsCadence Weapon - Breaking Kayfabe
Influenced by techno, old-school hip-hop, Bob Dylan, and grime, but sounding like none of them, this album is uniquely challenging and innovative, like Kanye West with a fetish for literate wordplay, and a head full of Nintendo beats Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Art
John Stezaker
Stezaker reflects back on the viewer's method of receiving the imagery and our imaginative capacity to project and create identities within what we see Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
MusicMother & The Addicts - Science Fiction Illustrated
Mother and his troupe of zealots are ripening deliciously... Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Film
Tan Lines
It's the summer holidays in small town Australia, where all the kids have to sustain them for weeks on end is a combination of surfing, skateboarding and par... Read more »| 08 Sep 2007
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Music
Smashing Pumpkins - That's the Way
Corgan would have done well to eject this into his colossal skip of wonky rarities Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Film
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
Lacking in charm, wit, and overall humour Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Music
Gallows - In the Belly of a Shark
If the big-wigs at Warner say heavy is in, heavy is fucking in Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Music
Figure 5 - Nitty Gritty
Slamming my hand onto the emergency button, I prise the doors open and blissfully throw myself down the lift shaft into oblivion Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Music
I Was a Cub Scout - Our Smallest Adventures
Not quite sharp enough to pierce the skin Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Music
Von Sudenfed @ The Arches
There's a thin line between madness and genius, and Von Sudenfed seem to play hopscotch around that line Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Music
Richard Hawley @ Queens Hall
Richard Hawley could play the SECC and it would still feel intimate Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Music
Seasick Steve @ The Liquid Room
Steve's incongruity is strangely comforting Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Music
Kharma 45 @ Cabaret Voltaire
These boys carry their own sound, and it's electrifying Read more »| 08 Sep 2007