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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MusicIn Pictures: The Billy Kelly Songwriting Award Launch @ Oràn Mór, 20 March
The hunt for unsigned talent gets underway at the opening of the 2012 Billy Kelly Songwriting Award at Oràn Mór. Acts can submit their demos to... Read more »| 26 Mar 2012 -
FilmCrows Zero
Suzuran Senior High School for Boys is notorious as 'the toughest in the nation', an educational establishment where the droog-like pupils indulge in perpetu... Read more »| 26 Mar 2012 -
ClubsO2 Love Music Column: Action Bronson | Skrillex | Picante
Action Bronson O2 Academy, Tue 3 Apr, 7pm, £10 advance Action Bronson is one of those rap stars who arrives seemingly from nowhere already fully... Read more »| 26 Mar 2012 -
Clubs
Blawan @ i AM, Sub Club
Hessle Audio, Clone and R & S ingenue Blawan arrives at i AM as one of a handful of acts to herald the Sub Club's 25th anniversary celebrations, quite th... Read more »| 25 Mar 2012 -
FilmRivals: Rangers & Celtic – shades of green, blue and grey
Glasgow's notorious Old Firm is profiled in the first in a series of documentaries looking at rivalries across the globe. We spoke to journalist Kev Kharas, the host of Rivals: Rangers & Celtic Read more »| 23 Mar 2012 -
Film
GFF 2012: The Kid With a Bike
All you really need to know about the Dardenne brothers' new film is that it concerns a kid and his bike. Watching the work of this extraordinary filmmaking ... Read more »| 22 Mar 2012
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Film
GFF 2012: Wild Bill
Treading the line between gritty social realism and slick gangster action, Wild Bill brings drugs, guns and family drama to Stratford, London. This directori... Read more »| 22 Mar 2012 -
MusicFather Murphy @ Nice n Sleazy, 14 March
For all their irreverent chat, Fat Janitor don’t mess around. Pummeling Nice n Sleazy with dense hardcore, the Jannys’ bracingly raw sound is eff... Read more »| 21 Mar 2012 -
Music
Heavy Metals: An Interview with Feist
From the Parisian studio where she recorded her previous album The Reminder, and mixed her latest, Metals, Leslie Feist discusses Record Store Day, her relationship with physical releases, and the sound she calls Modern Ancient Read more »| 21 Mar 2012 -
Music
Killing Joke @ 02ABC, 12 March
Nothing could stop this gig being a triumph: not support band The Icarus Line's petulant crowd-baiting and latter-day attempts to fuse Primal Scream with emo... Read more »| 21 Mar 2012 -
Music
Frankie Rose – Interstellar
Gone are ‘the Outs’ and the playfully fuzzy textures of Frankie Rose’s debut album; little is left to signify her involvement with Vivian ... Read more »| 19 Mar 2012 -
Music
Martyn – Hello Darkness EP
Much-touted post-dubstep producer Martyn returns with a 12” on Brainfeeder that shows real promise and development. With beautifully textured, melanc... Read more »| 19 Mar 2012 -
Music
Sunshine Social – Sunshine Social EP
Sunshine Social were never supposed to be a band. Songwriter Calum Macdonald had been gaining a reputation as a performer around the bars of Glasgow without ... Read more »| 19 Mar 2012 -
Film
Outlaw Immortal: The world of Roger Corman
To coincide with the release of Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel, we profile the King of the Bs, Roger Corman Read more »| 19 Mar 2012 -
Music
Liz Green – O, Devotion!
It’s been five years since Liz Green’s debut single, but the belated arrival of album O, Devotion! has only sharpened her talents. Bad Medicine r... Read more »| 19 Mar 2012