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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MusicMotley Crue - Saints Of Los Angeles
Inspired by the band's 2001 autobiography, The Dirt, Motley Crue's ninth studio album, Saints Of Los Angeles - repackaged and re-released here to coincide wi... Read more »| 17 Jan 2010 -
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Punch And The Apostles - Punch And The Apostles
Debut album from theatrical Glasgow seven-piece. Read more »| 16 Jan 2010 -
MusicPantha du Prince - Black Noise
Hendrik Weber aka Pantha du Prince has always operated at the accessible, super-melodic end of the techno spectrum and Black Noise is being touted by many as... Read more »| 15 Jan 2010 -
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An Evening with Henry Rollins @ O2 Academy, 13 Jan
“I’m a maniac. And the older I get, the more pissed off I am,” growls Henry Rollins. With his fevered tones, and his bulky frame poised lik... Read more »| 15 Jan 2010 -
ClubsThe free party people don't mind paying for...
No big name DJs just good tunes for good people - and loud Read more »| 15 Jan 2010 -
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Nacional @ King Tut's, 8 Jan
With red noses onstage and a crowd clad in cosy winter clothes, The Social Services (***) have their work cut out restoring circulation to a shivering Tut's ... Read more »| 14 Jan 2010
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MusicOh No Ono - Eggs
Already named fifth best Danish album of the decade at home, Eggs arrives in the UK at the best possible juncture. With the musicianistas and opinio-bloggers... Read more »| 13 Jan 2010 -
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New Work Scotland 09: Rachel Adams
Stepping into the gallery space at the Collective is much more like setting foot into an extremely contemporary living room than the white cube, empty galler... Read more »| 13 Jan 2010 -
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The Mary Onettes - Islands
Few nations have embraced the indie-pop aesthetic like the Swedes. From the outlandish kitsch of Jens Lekman, to the chart-bothering efforts of Peter, Bjorn ... Read more »| 13 Jan 2010 -
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Citay - Dream Get Together
Though they're often lumped in with the freak-folk movement, there is something decidedly proggier about San Francisco’s Citay than, say, Devendra Banh... Read more »| 11 Jan 2010 -
Film
The Sea Wall
The Sea Wall stars Isabelle Huppert as a French widow who, accompanied by her two children Joseph (Gaspard Ulliel) and Suzanne (Astrid Berges-Frisbey), leave... Read more »| 11 Jan 2010 -
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Basia Bulat - Heart of My Own
Everybody knows the one about the ‘difficult second album’: promising musician shoots his/her bolt on a debut, spends a year piecing together fra... Read more »| 11 Jan 2010 -
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Ella Montclare - I Surrender
While the seemingly endless horde of eccentric and energetic young female performers (Flo, Marina, Little Boots, Ellie Goulding…) rush the charts, Ell... Read more »| 11 Jan 2010 -
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Treeless Mountain
Brooklyn-based So Yong Kim draws on her own memories growing up in Korea for her second feature film Treeless Mountain. Young sisters Jin and Bin are left wi... Read more »| 11 Jan 2010 -
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Tommy T - Prester John Sessions
One of the most ancient countries in the world, Ethiopia’s wellspring of history and mysticism – not to mention its status as the spiritual home ... Read more »| 08 Jan 2010