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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MusicBig Boi @ O2 Academy, 3 Nov
As one half of the biggest selling hip-hop group of all time, by rights OutKast’s Antwan ‘Big Boi’ Patton should have sold out the Academy ... Read more »| 11 Nov 2010 -
MusicFoals @ HMV Picture House, 31 Oct
Smoke machines work overtime while eerie cuts from Ozzy, Maiden and Tool’s Lateralus – a lingering nod to that ‘math-rock’ lineage &n... Read more »| 11 Nov 2010 -
FilmStrange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields
A rare chance to see Strange Powers, a documentary following the creative and personal life of Magnetic Fields singer/songwriter Stephin Merritt Read more »| 11 Nov 2010 -
Music
Engineers: Daydream Vacation
Mark Peters of ambient shoegaze wonders Engineers talks us through the ten tracks he couldn't bear to be without on a desert island Read more »| 09 Nov 2010 -
Music
Various Artists – Scientist Launches Dubstep into Outer Space
Strip the ‘step’ out of dubstep, and what are you left with? A reminder that the futurist genre often draws more from the gloomy chambers of prop... Read more »| 09 Nov 2010 -
Music
Zion I - Atomic Clock
In a thirteen year career which began with their cassette-only, 1997 underground smash, Into The Woods, Bay Area hip-hop duo Zion I (DJ Amp Live and emcee Zu... Read more »| 09 Nov 2010
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MusicDrive-By Truckers @ ABC, 10 November
Pack yer flask full of bourbon and head on down to O2 ABC for an Alabama Ass-Whuppin' courtesy of Southern Rock's great revivalist hope, Drive-By Tru... Read more »| 08 Nov 2010 -
Music
Otherpeople – Drink
With recent live shows having demonstrated something of an arsenal of potential singles at their disposal its a wonder how Glasgow's Otherpeople even decided... Read more »| 08 Nov 2010 -
Music
Starter for Eleven: Kele Okereke
We ask Kele a few tricky ones about the NME Album of the Year Awards. Mudhoney remain atop the leaderboard with 5.5 points...is the London-based singer up to the challenge? Read more »| 08 Nov 2010 -
Music
Kele Okereke Music Playlist: Under the Influence
In the years when Oasis, Spiritualized and Queens of the Stone Age were cleaning up at the NME awards, Kele was listening to other things... Read more »| 08 Nov 2010 -
Music
Quest For Fire – Lights From Paradise
Opening with the unapologetic pace of The Greatest Hits By God – any more slower and we’ll be going back in time – which growls wit... Read more »| 08 Nov 2010 -
Music
Orange Juice: Three Cheers for Our Side
Edwyn Collins speaks about the forthcoming release of the complete works of Orange Juice, Coals To Newcastle Read more »| 05 Nov 2010 -
Art
Gray's in Crisis
As well as being heavily criticised for plans to confer an Honorary Degree on controversial American tycoon Donald Trump, Robert Gordon University recently informed employees of plans to cut staffing levels at its Art School by around 20% Read more »| 05 Nov 2010 -
Music
Fence Halloween
Glittery globes and cardboard cacti transform Stereo and its half-finished lane-neighbour The Old Hairdresser into appropriately galactic settings for a Spac... Read more »| 05 Nov 2010 -
Film
The Cameo's All Night Horror Madness
For a generation of twenty-somethings, slack parenting and older brothers and sisters led to us watching horror films at a far younger age than we should hav... Read more »| 05 Nov 2010