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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FilmNot Quite Hollywood
The history of Australian films is the history of girls walking around rocks, dingoes stealing babies and Jenny Agutter in a pool of water. At least it is if... Read more »| 14 Jan 2009 -
MusicMy Vitriol: Back For Good?
After six years in the wilderness, My Vitriol recently dipped their toe back in the water with a short UK tour at the end of last year. Ryan Drever has a word with a slightly tour-damaged Som Wardner to ask the simple question: Where the hell have they been? Read more »| 14 Jan 2009 -
Film
Eden Lake
“Run for the hills, the hoodies are coming!”. Well, not quite, but that was the general response to James Watkins’ debut feature, a backwoo... Read more »| 14 Jan 2009 -
MusicAntony & The Johnsons - The Crying Light
Antony proves he was well worth the wait with album number three. Read more »| 13 Jan 2009 -
Film
"My name is Harvey Milk. And I'm here to recruit you."
The release of Milk, the new biopic on the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the US, isn’t a story to be resigned to history. Gail Tolley discusses. Read more »| 13 Jan 2009 -
Music
Omar Rodriguez-López - Old Money
Frantic, eclectic guitar mania accompanied by his instrumental cohorts from Mars Volta Read more »| 12 Jan 2009
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Music
The Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage
If lead single Throwing Bones doesn’t slap a big smile on your mug, you may want to check your pulse for recent activity. Read more »| 12 Jan 2009 -
Music
Bricolage - Bricolage
Bricolage are unashamedly in thrall to Scottish indie from the 1980s. There's no denying that the Glasgow-based foursome can pull off a convincing Orange Jui... Read more »| 09 Jan 2009 -
Music
Okker - Two Axes
Winter is a bad time to be promoting underground music. The sheer quantity of rubbish that crams the shelves of music stores turns even the most discerning c... Read more »| 09 Jan 2009 -
MusicAnimal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
God only knows where they go from here... Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
Music
The Bronx: Road Warriors
In a manner somewhat suited to his band's style, The Bronx vocalist Matt Caughthran catches up Ryan Drever with on the road to talk records, movies and mariachi bands. Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
Music
Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird follows 2007's critical success Armchair Apocrypha with an intricate beauty of an LP that's by turns introspective and inst... Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
MusicRemember Remember: Commit To Memory
Graeme Ronald, lynchpin of modern classical ensemble Remember Remember, gets into a ‘loop’ with Darren Carle to discuss keeping it real in a computer world. Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
Music
Dälek - Gutter Tactics
Like an industrial hip-hop soundtrack to your worst (or favourite) Lynchian nightmare, New Jersey duo Dälek prophesise the apocalypse via the medium o... Read more »| 08 Jan 2009 -
Music
Fight Like Apes - ...And the Mystery of the Golden Medallion
Ireland’s Fight Like Apes splatter their debut album on an unsuspecting record-buying public this month like Day-Glo paint. Singer Maykay makes like Jemina P... Read more »| 08 Jan 2009