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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MusicGallows – Gallows
Instead of flickering out after the departure of intimidating frontman Frank Carter, Watford-based hardcore punks Gallows have decided to soldier on with the... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
MusicOneohtrix Point Never / Rene Hell – Music For Reliquary House / In 1980 I Was A Blue Square
OPN's Music For Reliquary House finds Dan Lopatin revisiting the experimental modes of 2011's Replica but toning down that album's sense of rhythm and melody... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
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Band of Horses – Mirage Rock
Since relocating from Seattle to the American Midwest to record 2007’s joyous Cease to Begin, Band of Horses' song craft has come to reflect the sexte... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
FilmWar Trilogy
Aleksandr Dovshenko may not carry the same name recognition as contemporaries like Sergei Eisenstein or Dziga Vertov, but eighty years on his best work remai... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
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Lawless
John HIllcoat’s thriller, from a messy script by Nick Cave, charts the exploits of a family of Virginian bootleggers during Prohibition as their operat... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
MusicThe Metal Column – September 2012
Creeps, it looks like Summer might just be over. Perhaps it's time to step out of the shadows and rear your ugly mugs under the comfortable camouflage of tho... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012
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Music
The Fresh & Onlys – Long Slow Dance
San Francisco’s The Fresh & Onlys are old-fashioned songwriters – not only in the sense that their music evokes a panoply of traditions and... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
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Cat Power – Sun
Despite an at times tumultuous personal life, Chan Marshall’s output has always been driven by an assured, direct artistic vision; from the sultry Delt... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
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Live Music Highlights – September 2012
From righteous blues rock sisters to the most vital man in modern hip-hop, we've got your September gig calendar all sussed out Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
TheatreThe Static
A darkly comic coming-of-age tale about what happens when our darkest dreams come true Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
Film
Film Event Highlights – September 2012
GFT gets naughty with Brando and a stick of butter; Cameo is tearing film fans apart with a screening of a toxic bad movie; Hitch is still thrilling Filmhouse; Orson Welles is confounding DCA; and LCD Soundsystem go out on a high Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
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Anton Corbijn: Inside Out
Anton Corbijn: Inside Out follows the prolific Dutch photographer and filmmaker (Control, The American) whose unique visual style helped to define an era in ... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
Art
Art School Top Trumps
So you're off to art college, and well on your way to becoming a massive critical success. But have you chosen your art school correctly? Let's find out... Read more »| 03 Sep 2012 -
Theatre
Piatto Finale @ Zoo
A spoons solo? Must be more Lecoq-trained whimsy, this time from the company Superbolt Theatre. A more episodic, screwball piece than the bouffon o... Read more »| 01 Sep 2012 -
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I <3 Hamas and Other Things I'm Afraid to Tell You @ The Point Hotel
Despite a provocative title, I Heart Hamas... is not a particularly extreme offering as a perspective on Palestinian bequest and culture. Above all the story... Read more »| 01 Sep 2012