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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ComedyTig Notaro – Live!
Comedy has been in the news for all the wrong reasons recently. Aggresive, misogynistic, tolerant of rape and, worst of all, a bit pointless. That final char... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: October 2012 Horoscopes
ARIES Your intestinal parasite has gotten rather large lately, and this month things cross a very special barrier when you finally become the parasite trappe... Read more »| 05 Oct 2012 -
MusicThe Lost and Damned: ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead return with a fury
As they set about releasing their blistering eighth album, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead’s multi-instrumentalist Jason Reece talks Texan prog, German punk and Scottish niceties Read more »| 05 Oct 2012 -
FilmWho'll Blink First?: Filming Ai Weiwei
With her documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry out on DVD on the 8 Oct, The Skinny talks to director Alison Klayman about the challenges involved in creating her sympathetic portrait of a complex man. Read more »| 05 Oct 2012 -
Film
Ruby Sparks
Not another indie movie, Ruby Sparks is the second feature from Little Miss Sunshine directing duo Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton. Penned by actress Zoe ... Read more »| 05 Oct 2012 -
Music
Pyramid Songs: Efterklang bring their elegant new LP to The Usher Hall
From a frozen ghost town in the Arctic to the stage of Sydney Opera House, Efterklang’s Rasmus Stolberg maps out their fourth album’s journey Read more »| 04 Oct 2012
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Books
Battleborn by Clare Vaye Watkins
Nevada is a curious place, a barometer of presidential elections - the state has an almost faultless record in voting for the winner. And whilst the gambling... Read more »| 04 Oct 2012 -
Music
Anything Goes: Duff McKagan talks Loaded, GN'R's legacy and living in the present
As he looks forward to Loaded's part in Alice Cooper's Night of Fear in Edinburgh this month, founding Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan discusses new project Walking Papers, the future of Velvet Revolver and the legacy of his old band Read more »| 04 Oct 2012 -
Music
Gallows: "It's time for us to come back and come back hard"
Following the release of their ferociously uncompromising self-titled album last month, Gallows' Laurent "Lags" Barnard and Wade MacNeil talk us through the band's new global outlook, the birth of Venn Records, and the future of Gallows 2.0. Read more »| 04 Oct 2012 -
MusicBrasstronaut – Mean Sun
As their clunky name indicates, trumpets aren’t just an occasional adornment in Brasstronaut’s songwriting; they’re its heart. Like debut... Read more »| 04 Oct 2012 -
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 -
Music
Grizzly 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 -
Film
The 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