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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FilmAwake
After 84 minutes, chances are you won’t be awake watching this debut but instead drooling on the person next to you. Millionaire Clayton (Christensen) ... Read more »| 22 Aug 2008 -
Film
The Strangers
In The Strangers, a simple-enough plot revolves around a couple returning to their home in the country. But once back, their every move is watched, by strang... Read more »| 22 Aug 2008 -
MusicSantogold @ The Liquid Room, 19 Aug
Is the former A&R rep anything more than a carefully marketed, cross-genre musical magpie? Read more »| 22 Aug 2008 -
Music
Isosceles @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17 Aug
Angular guitar hits compliment the at-times carnivalesque organ pumping Read more »| 22 Aug 2008 -
Film
Fashion Victims
Despite its vague billing as a risque German 'gay interest' comedy, Fashion Victims is in truth a far straighter affair than the rainbow titles and sartorial... Read more »| 22 Aug 2008 -
MusicY'All is Fantasy Island - With Handclaps EP
YiFi are not just prolific - they're unstoppable Read more »| 21 Aug 2008
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Music
Punch and the Apostles @ King Tut's, 16 Aug
Almost certainly festival music in waiting Read more »| 21 Aug 2008 -
Music
Kristin Hersh: Paradoxical Undressing @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13 Aug
With strange tales of hanging out with rats, lounging with lizards, growing up in a hippy commune and wearing elephant shit sandals, Hersh’s monologues are consistently colourful and fluidly poetic Read more »| 21 Aug 2008 -
Music
Be A Familiar - Pain In The Heart
On-stage energy can't mask recorded, replayable mediocrity Read more »| 21 Aug 2008 -
Music
Super Adventure Club - Chalk Horror!
Super Adventure Club know it's no fun playing serious music if you have to take it seriously Read more »| 20 Aug 2008 -
Music
Manda Rin - DNA
It's become a backhanded compliment to say a band is "big in Japan," but Bis really were much bigger in the Far East than they ever were in Scotland, despite... Read more »| 20 Aug 2008 -
Music
Mercury Rev's Theory Of Evolution
As Finbarr Bermingham caught up with Jeff Mercel, percussionist, keyboardist and general man-about-band, we find out that Mercury Rev, unlike many of their fans, are not a band transfixed with the past and that their future is there to be embraced. Read more »| 20 Aug 2008 -
MusicMystery Jets - Half in Love with Elizabeth
Hearing the intro to this track for the first time, the question: 'Dear God, what have I done to deserve this?' rush through the mind. But seriously, it gets... Read more »| 20 Aug 2008 -
Music
Bonde do Rolê @ The Lemon Tree, 15 Aug
Carnival time halts for no man Read more »| 20 Aug 2008 -
Music
Conor Oberst - Souled Out!!!
If this record had a scent, it'd be pine or lemon - while perhaps not the number one aroma for many, a large cross-section of the populace can agree these tw... Read more »| 20 Aug 2008