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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MusicJet - Shine On
The rock revolution is still in full swing, meaning there's a huge audience for any band that can actually play their instruments Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Film
The Wicker Man - Original Soundtrack
the original tapes were thought lost, or even destroyed, for many years Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Film
Free Forever: Limited Edition, 2-disc DVD
briefly the biggest band in the UK Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
Live Music Roundup for October
Howling Bells are exactly the kind of band you should be getting excited about. Go and see them Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
MusicPlacebo - Meds
a single for the staunch Placebo fan only Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
Xfm column October - Leave Emo Alone!
In clubs I've seen people furious at people dancing to Fall Out Boy, and at me for playing it! Read more »| 13 Oct 2006
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Music
The Black Keys @ ABC
This sort of hook-laden, straight up bluesy-rock really deserves a much wider audience. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Art
Torsten Lauschman
The non-sequiturs both baffle and attract Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Art
Karl Haendel - Make Me A Down a Pallet on Your Floor
In one space, Haendel has managed to simulate the entire impact of the media Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Art
Jeremy Deller
One bewildered woman strolled past the work and knocked on the office door, asking where the exhibition was Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Film
Withnail and I: 20 Years On
between Hamlet and hangovers Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Film
The Eye…Infinity
the film's comic touches sit uneasily with its attempts at atmospheric horror Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
Why Bonobo's 'Days To Come' Feels So Real
a confident, rounded, multi-instrumental sound. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Theatre
The Merchant of Venice
as is typical of many of Shakespeare's plays, the action drags on for too long Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Theatre
Two
The denouement is not so much redemptive as repulsive Read more »| 13 Oct 2006