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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MusicLive Music Highlights – April 2011
Attention youths! Emotional guitar rock this way comes courtesy of Aberdeen (via Brighton) three-piece The X-certs. A solid rhythm section, battle-tested alt... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
ArtOmar Zingaro Bhatia: The Myth Maker
Life as an artist is hard, according to artist Omar Zingaro Bhatia. Not convinced, The Skinny looks to catch a glimpse of the man beneath the fiction Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
Music
The Metal Column – April 2011
As we slink into April, rolling news coverage continues to resemble about a dozen simultaneous disaster movies. Whilst continuing to be pummelled unmercifull... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
FilmOranges and Sunshine
Diplomatic dilemma and political blame-dodging; children being removed from their mothers, dispatched for ‘better lives’ in the colonies only to ... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
Film
Killing Bono
For many there’ll be no more tantalising film title this year than this one based on Neil McCormick’s autobiographical tale of his rivalry with h... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
MusicJosh T. Pearson @ Stereo, 26 March
For a man who has just released one of the saddest records in recent memory, Last of the Country Gentlemen, Josh. T Pearson takes to the stage with remarkabl... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011
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Music
Orkestra Del Sol – Lung Capacity
There are two ways of setting about summing up Lung Capacity, the latest album from Edinburgh’s brass-steppers extraordinaire. The first would be to fo... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
MusicHauschka – Salon des Amateurs
Salon des Amateurs is the latest in a growing collection of releases by risk-taking Düsseldorf-based composer Volker Bertelmann, alias Hauschka – ... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
Art
Johnny Charles Harris @ Big Mouth Coffee Company
"See a painting you like the look of? How much do you want to pay? Hundred quid? Tenner? A pound? Pay whatever you want," says imaginative – and brave ... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
Music
OvO – Cor Cordium
Drifting in the limbo between the percussive sludge of Jucifer and the surreal assault of Fantômas is OvO, an Italian duo who have been conducting audi... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
Music
Kode9 & The Spaceape – Black Sun
Hyperdub has always been the most experimental and forward-thinking of dubstep labels, and the panache with which Kode9 and Spaceape reinvented and deconstru... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
Music
Stranded Horse – Humbling Tides
Yann Tambour – formerly Thee Stranded Horse, now Thee-less – writes and performs on a miniature kora, a kind of African harp/guitar. Throughout H... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
Books
Paradoxical Undressing by Kristin Hersh
Based on the diaries she kept at the time, this absorbing and idiosyncratic memoir chronicles the early years of Kristin Hersh's band Throwing Muses, one of ... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
Music
Panda Bear – Tomboy
Bringing an aural sharpness in contrast to the kaleidoscopic, woozy swirl of 2007’s Person Pitch, Tomboy finds Noah Lennox further straddling the exper... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
Music
Trembling Bells – The Constant Pageant
While Alex Neilson may be the driving force behind the band, it’s still inevitable that the most arresting thing about any new Trembling Bells album wi... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011