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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MusicMission of Burma – Unsound
Perhaps few would’ve predicted that Mission of Burma’s ‘one-off reunion show’ in 2002 would lead to anything beyond maybe a smatteri... Read more »| 28 Jun 2012 -
FilmThe Battle of Algiers
Cinema so often instructs us what to think. Lighting, score, even camera angles push buttons in our minds, clearly identifying friend and foe. Then we have T... Read more »| 28 Jun 2012 -
Music
Mike Patton and the Ictus Ensemble – Laborintus II
Mike Patton’s public love affair with Italian music continues apace with a fine performance of this seminal avant garde work. Ostensibly written to cel... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
Books
The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Dream of the Celt is a re-imagining of the life of Irish nationalist Roger Casement. As a young man Roger believed in the ideals of the British Empire ... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
TheatreZippo's Circus presents Gold
Roll up, roll up... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
Music
Konx-Om-Pax – Regional Surrealism
Having seen the videos he has made for the likes of Rustie, Hudson Mohawke and Martyn, you might have expected Konx-Om-Pax's debut album to be full of hype... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012
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Music
Jeremiah Jae – Raw Money Raps
A psychedelic, multi-layered, intentionally awkward piece of work, Raw Money Raps is the direct descendent of Madlib and Dilla’s groundbreaking freefor... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
Music
Twin Shadow – Confess
After debut Forget had us falling headlong in love with Twin Shadow’s intimate synth-pop, it’s hard not to approach Confess with second-date jit... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
MusicOFF! / Trash Talk @ King Tut's, 21 June
Trash Talk open up a night of quickfire hardcore with the menacing dissonance of Hash Wednesday – a sludgy, doom-laden number far removed from the res... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
Film
Bobcat Goldthwait on God Bless America
Bobcat Goldthwait is best remembered as 'that shrill bloke from the Police Academy movies'. He also happens to be one of America's most distinct filmmakers. The Skinny speaks to him about his latest black comedy, God Bless America Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
Theatre
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake in 3D
This ravishing production from Sadler’s Wells in London is at once contemporary and utterly timeless. Bourne’s re-telling of the classic ballet h... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
TheatreBeckett Double Bill @ The Citizens Theatre
Everything about Dominic Hill’s re-staging of Krapp’s Last Tape is bigger - the bleak comedy, the gesticulations and sighs, even the leading man.... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
Theatre
27 @ The Citizens Theatre
American Epidemiologist Dr Richard Garfield (Patrick Drury) and his team travel to the West of Scotland to persuade the residents of a convent to participate... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
Theatre
Ann Boleyn @ EFT
On a pristine, beautifully lit stage, a barefoot, ghostly Anne Boleyn makes her entrance. In classical RSC style she addresses the audience, challenging them... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
Theatre
Tosca @ Theatre Royal
Sex and death, politics and religion - opera is well suited to the big themes, and Giacomo Puccini was better suited than most to his chosen medium. Tosca re... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012