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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MusicViva Stereo - Roar Lion Roar
Fence Collective mainstays Viva Stereo are stretched to the limits by personal circumstances: with members scattered from Aberdeen to Leicester, it's a wonde... Read more »| 27 Jan 2009 -
MusicTricky @ The Arches, 19 Feb
Emerging amidst the lads-and-lager brawl of mid-nineties Britpop, Tricky’s multifarious debut, Maxinquaye, flew in the face of the simplified collectiv... Read more »| 27 Jan 2009 -
Film
The Skinny Guide to Oscar Party Season
Love it or loathe it, Oscar season is here; you can try to avoid the pics of weeping starlets and triumphantly returning has-beens...or you can throw in the towel and host your own Oscar party, with our how-to guide. Read more »| 27 Jan 2009 -
MusicThe King Blues - Save The World, Get The Girl
Jonny ‘Itch’ Fox is not without talent. Save The World, Get The Girl portrays him as a bomb disposal expert, a Shaolin master, and a caped crusad... Read more »| 27 Jan 2009 -
ClubsJam The Box Launch Night @ GRV, 7 Feb
Named after an old Carl Craig track, Jam The Box has arrived to bring the fun back into clubbing. Read more »| 27 Jan 2009 -
Music
Daniel Merriweather feat. Wale - Change
Ronson's right-hand man fails to deliver on lacklustre debut. Read more »| 27 Jan 2009
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Music
Imelda May @ The Voodoo Rooms, 17 Feb
Winner of “Best Music Pub” award in 2008, the Voodoo Rooms has rapidly earned a reputation for hosting first-class gigs. Its dark, would-be smoky... Read more »| 27 Jan 2009 -
Comedy
Laugh them into Bed: the Novice’s Guide to Dating and Comedy
Lizzie Cass-Maran explains why the comedy club is the perfect place for a first date. Read more »| 27 Jan 2009 -
MusicAnonymous Tip - Not Your Orthodox
Twickenham punks Anonymous Tip have something to tell all you square, naïve fools. While you live your clueless lives as slaves to the system, they see ... Read more »| 27 Jan 2009 -
Music
Coldplay - Life in Technicolor II
Unless you've only recently been unearthed, you’re already well acquainted with Coldplay. But the blunt chances are that Life in Technicolor II won&rsq... Read more »| 26 Jan 2009 -
Music
Okker: Chords Before Style
Who needs a strategy when you can resign yourself to drinking meths in a ditch? Okker's Scott Wright tells Ewen Millar why five-year plans are overrated Read more »| 26 Jan 2009 -
Art
Charles Avery @ Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Charles Avery’s Islanders is an astonishingly good exhibition. ’Good’ is necessarily too facile a term: it is fascinating, entrancing, a tr... Read more »| 26 Jan 2009 -
Music
Easy Rider: Max Cavalera
Watch it, Europe: all your Yakult and croquettes belong to Max Cavalera. The ex-Sepultura and Soulfly legend dropped us a fax with the rider he needs while h... Read more »| 26 Jan 2009 -
Music
Popular Workshop - Her Birthday
With Albini slapped all over it like a Nike badge, there's no escaping what Popular Workshop are going for on this single: danceable indie but with the alter... Read more »| 26 Jan 2009 -
Music
Helene - Heliotrope
Formed in 2001, London-based collective Helene's career is in danger of beginning to plateau. It's to be hoped instead that Heliotrope, their dusky beauty of... Read more »| 26 Jan 2009