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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TheatrePitmen Painters - Working Class Aesthetics
Live Theatre Newcastle and The National Theatre production of Pitmen Painters by Lee Hall features many of the original 2007 cast. The play centres around Th... Read more »| 01 Aug 2011 -
MusicLive Music Highlights – August 2011
Get your motherfucking chakras aligned Edinburgh, because polysynth polymath Dan Lopatin (aka Oneohtrix Point Never) is getting ready to remix your conscious... Read more »| 29 Jul 2011 -
Music
The Metal Column – August 2011
In case you’ve been off dwelling with Norwegian cave metaller Mortiis, last month saw the timely demise of News of the World and it’ll be sadly m... Read more »| 29 Jul 2011 -
FilmChris Weitz: Hollywood Chameleon
Genre hopping director Chris Weitz swaps sparkly vampires for real stakes in humanistic drama A Better Life Read more »| 29 Jul 2011 -
Music
The Icarus Line – Wildlife
A solo album in all but name (its working title was Joe Cardamone Versus The Icarus Line), Wildlife is a sporadically impressive outing that nevertheless fal... Read more »| 29 Jul 2011 -
Art
Mach Meets His Maker
A mere couple of weeks before his show opens at City Art Centre, David Mach finds time for a wee blether with The Skinny Read more »| 29 Jul 2011
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Film
Captain America : The First Avenger
With its star spangled coming attraction posters, there was a concern among non-US jingoists that Captain America: The First Avenger would arrive in cinemas ... Read more »| 29 Jul 2011 -
Books
Tretower to Clyro:Essays by Karl Miller
This is a genial collection of essays by an esteemed critic, including a foreword by one of his friends, Andrew O’Hagan, and pieces on his frie... Read more »| 29 Jul 2011 -
Music
Retox – Ugly Animals
Somewhat predictably for a band containing two members of The Locust, Ipecac's latest progeny specialise in envelope-pushing musical lunacy of the 100mph ext... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011 -
Music
Grumbling Fur – Furrier
Even without knowing the illustrious pedigree behind Grumbling Fur, from Furfather’s gently shimmering ambience it’s already possible to see Guap... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011 -
MusicMetaltech – Burn Your Planet
How do you take a band like Metaltech, a nu-industrial trio with a love of Kiss-esque greasepaint and early 90s rock and techno? On one hand you have the alb... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011 -
MusicPaul Vickers and the Vicarage – Oom-pah!
There are some releases that even the most determined of pedants couldn’t pigeonhole and with Oom-pah’s trauma-inducing collision of avant-garde ... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011 -
Music
The Count & Sinden – Mega Mega Remix
Mega Mega Remix strikes as a particularly masochistic record for The Count & Sinden (or their label?) to commission: though a patchy affair, Mega Mega Re... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011 -
Music
Wooden Shjips – West
Gone is the lo-fi fugue of Wooden Shjips’ DIY recordings: West marks the San Franciscan psych-rock disciples’ debut in a “proper studio&rdq... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011 -
Film
Limitless
Limitless takes the headlines about American students who have been enhancing their exam performance with drugs and turns them into a slickly enjoyable thril... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011