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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FilmPontypool
Pontypool may be disguised as a zombie film, but it in fact offers a whole new take on the concept. More in keeping with the plague-ridden undead in 28 Days... Read more »| 09 Oct 2009 -
FilmPandorum
When Corporal Bower (Ben Foster) wakes from hypersleep aboard the Elysium things are not looking good: the lights are out, the reactor is about to shut down,... Read more »| 08 Oct 2009 -
ArtMike Inglis @ The Arches
For his new Arches show, Inglis goes back to his original printmaking and street paste-ups. Shadows Fade – titled after a headstone inscription in Ingl... Read more »| 08 Oct 2009 -
Music
Har Mar Superstar - Dark Touches
You may be aware that the position of principal white-skinned disco-funkster has recently been vacated by MJ’s passing, leaving the field wide open for... Read more »| 06 Oct 2009 -
MusicPixies @ SECC, 4 Oct
Last time Pixies played the SECC, punters got Teenage Fanclub, BMX Bandits and Cud as support before the stage belligerently collapsed. There’s only on... Read more »| 06 Oct 2009 -
Music
The Mountain Goats: Songs and Scripture
The Skinny waxes with head Mountain Goat John Darnielle to talk ambition, God and Santa Claus Read more »| 06 Oct 2009
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Music
Miike Snow - Black and Blue
This Swedish three piece (ok, singer Andrew Wyatt is American) have previous in that two of them (as Bloodshy and Avant) wrote and produced Britney Spear's 2... Read more »| 06 Oct 2009 -
Music
Frank Turner @ QMU, 15 Oct
Former Million Dead vocalist tours in support of third solo LP Read more »| 05 Oct 2009 -
Music
Fanfarlo @ King Tut's, 30 Sep
Resembling slap-dash Texan carnies, Woodenbox With A Fistful of Fivers immediately appeal. They’ll possibly balk at the comparison, but imagine the Rum... Read more »| 05 Oct 2009 -
Film
Lords of The Wing
Michael Gillespie talks to the makers of the visually breath-taking documentary The Crimson Wing Read more »| 05 Oct 2009 -
Clubs
Torture Garden: No Pain, All Gain
Get exotic and erotic with Torture Garden's happening of burlesque beats and beautiful bodies. Read more »| 05 Oct 2009 -
Music
Japanese Voyeurs - Sicking & Creaming EP
One of the oft-forgotten facts about 90s grunge is that quite a lot of the bands involved weren't actually any good [presumably you're talking about the wave... Read more »| 05 Oct 2009 -
Music
Sufjan Stevens - The BQE
A soundtrack to a highway – Stevens' races toward brilliance. Read more »| 05 Oct 2009 -
Music
Offshore – Aneurysm EP
Despite clocking in at under 15 minutes in length, Aneurysm still manages to display significant stylistic breadth. The title track brings together c... Read more »| 04 Oct 2009 -
Music
Kings of Convenience - Declaration of Dependence
In making an album with a limited palette of sounds, you tread a fine line between producing something stark and something monotonous. Whilst Declaration of ... Read more »| 03 Oct 2009