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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ArtPlatform 7: Getting a Leg Up
An exhibition facilitated by Somewhereto_ asks whether artists can get down off their soapboxes and work collaboratively as one voice Read more »| 04 Oct 2012 -
MusicGrizzly Bear's Daniel Rossen talks Shields' tricky genesis
Rossen explains why a desert retreat, self-imposed pressure, and scrapping an album's worth of material turned in to blessings in disguise for the Brooklyn quartet Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
FilmThe Fairy
La Fée is the third feature from a three-way filmmaking partnership, in which each member shares three roles: writer, director, and performer. It&rsqu... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
Music
Bat For Lashes' Natasha Khan talks new LP The Haunted Man
Bat for Lashes' third album sees Natasha Khan laying bare her voice, her soul and her body – she tells us how The Haunted Man expresses her new-found joy in life Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
Comedy
Alexei Sayle: "What I did before – he wasn't me"
Having reinvented comedy in the 80s, Alexei Sayle is making a return to standup. And not a moment too soon... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
ClubsThe House That Lil' Louis Built
Being at the vanguard of house music from its inception was much less pleasure than pain, as DJ, producer, writer and now filmmaker Lil' Louis launches the world's first house music exhibition Read more »| 03 Oct 2012
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Music
Dog Is Dead – All Our Favourite Stories
Nottingham’s Dog is Dead have been all over this summer’s festival calendar, and with good reason. Debut LPAll Our Favourite Stories sounds ... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
Music...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – Lost Songs
Coming with an overtly political manifesto, Trail of Dead’s eighth studio album Lost Songs fittingly stands as their most direct statement in some time... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
Film
The Arrival of Wang
Not, as one might initially guess, a top-shelf title heralding the debut of a new adult entertainment star, The Arrival of Wang is a low budget sci-fi thrill... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
Film
Some Guy Who Kills People
Everyone wants revenge on the assholes from high school, especially Kevin Boyd (Kevin Corrigan). When he's released after 11 years in the mental institution ... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
Film
The Landlord
In his directorial debut, the great Hal Ashby tackled race relations head on with this fable of gentrification and radical chic. Elgar (Beau Bridges) is a sp... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
Film
Moonrise Kingdom
Like Wes Anderson's previous films, Moonrise Kingdom is located in a place that is at one remove from reality, where he can create a jewel-like world with a ... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
Music
Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind
With so much made of “tricky” second and third albums, not many platitudes exist to explain the challenge faced by those bands with the gumpt... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
Music
Rozi Plain – Joined Sometimes Unjoined
Where Rozi Plain’s debut Inside Over Here was pieced together from various home recordings, the creation of Joined Sometimes Unjoined involved a full b... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
Music
Lukid – Lonely at the Top
Although previous Lukid records have always been beautifully complex and intricate, they have also been fairly easy to place within contemporary electroni... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012