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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MusicNorth Atlantic Oscillation - Grappling Hooks
As a title, Grappling Hooks is highly ironic given that North Atlantic Oscillation’s debut album is sorely lacking a stable influence to give i... Read more »| 24 Feb 2010 -
Art
Trouble in the Forest
Good art is usually divisive – it causes arguments, provokes feeling; it makes us think about the things that matter. It can cause tears, laughter, vi... Read more »| 24 Feb 2010 -
Film
GFF 2010: Family Ties
We talk to French filmmaker Nathan Miller about his critically acclaimed feature I’m Glad My Mother is Alive. Read more »| 23 Feb 2010 -
MusicWhite Hinterland - Kairos
Lesser bands must hate White Hinterland. Armed with gorgeous swells of jazzy-electronica, Casey Dienel and Shaun Creeden make the complicated sound ridiculou... Read more »| 23 Feb 2010 -
Music
Fursaxa - Mycorrhizae Realm
Let me save you a trip to Wikipedia: a mycorrhiza is a symbiotic association between a fungus and the roots of a plant, which would locate a mycorrhizae real... Read more »| 23 Feb 2010 -
MusicMastodon @ Barrowlands, 19 Feb
Packing an abridged recital of the set they played at the ABC last summer – even if they are on stage for nigh on 90 minutes – Atlantan sludge be... Read more »| 23 Feb 2010
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Books
All's Right at Aye Write!
The Aye Write! festival is back, with as strong a lineup as ever. Read more »| 23 Feb 2010 -
MusicThe Smoking Hearts - Pride Of Nowhere
You usually know you're in for a good time when an album of the punk/hardcore ilk clocks in at less than half an hour - a potential short, sharp blas... Read more »| 23 Feb 2010 -
Music
White Hills - White Hills
Despite what its detractors might say, stoner rock is a diverse and intriguing genre. Given its propensity for mind-altering substances and ongoing mission t... Read more »| 23 Feb 2010 -
FilmGFF 2010: City of Life and Death
Not since Elem Klimov's Come and See (1985) has a film captured the atrocities of war in such a vivid, powerful fashion. City of Life and Death docum... Read more »| 23 Feb 2010 -
Music
Iain Shaw - May You Live All the Days of Your Life
With a title like May You Live All the Days of Your Life, Iain Shaw’s new LP was always going to be a little fey. Knocked out in four hours, th... Read more »| 23 Feb 2010 -
Film
Capitalism: A Love Story
Capitalism: A Love Story is a Michael Moore film, and by now we know exactly what to expect from this frustrating filmmaker. His take on the financia... Read more »| 23 Feb 2010 -
Film
GFF 2010: I Killed My Mother
As writer, director, producer and star of I Killed My Mother, 20-year-old Xavier Dolan has taken most of the inspiration for his first feature from his own l... Read more »| 23 Feb 2010 -
Music
Yeasayer @ Òran Mór, 17 Feb
Having shed their ‘Enya with bounce’ mantra to become ‘Depeche Mode on peyote,’ as facelifts go Yeasayer have undergone more than a l... Read more »| 22 Feb 2010 -
Film
GFF 2010: With One Voice
When erstwhile French rocker Jean-Yves Labat de Rossi decided to bring together musicians from Israel and Palestine, both Jews and Muslims, to form t... Read more »| 22 Feb 2010