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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ClubsThe free party people don't mind paying for...
No big name DJs just good tunes for good people - and loud Read more »| 15 Jan 2010 -
MusicNacional @ King Tut's, 8 Jan
With red noses onstage and a crowd clad in cosy winter clothes, The Social Services (***) have their work cut out restoring circulation to a shivering Tut's ... Read more »| 14 Jan 2010 -
MusicOh No Ono - Eggs
Already named fifth best Danish album of the decade at home, Eggs arrives in the UK at the best possible juncture. With the musicianistas and opinio-bloggers... Read more »| 13 Jan 2010 -
Art
New Work Scotland 09: Rachel Adams
Stepping into the gallery space at the Collective is much more like setting foot into an extremely contemporary living room than the white cube, empty galler... Read more »| 13 Jan 2010 -
Music
The Mary Onettes - Islands
Few nations have embraced the indie-pop aesthetic like the Swedes. From the outlandish kitsch of Jens Lekman, to the chart-bothering efforts of Peter, Bjorn ... Read more »| 13 Jan 2010 -
MusicCitay - Dream Get Together
Though they're often lumped in with the freak-folk movement, there is something decidedly proggier about San Francisco’s Citay than, say, Devendra Banh... Read more »| 11 Jan 2010
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Film
The Sea Wall
The Sea Wall stars Isabelle Huppert as a French widow who, accompanied by her two children Joseph (Gaspard Ulliel) and Suzanne (Astrid Berges-Frisbey), leave... Read more »| 11 Jan 2010 -
Music
Basia Bulat - Heart of My Own
Everybody knows the one about the ‘difficult second album’: promising musician shoots his/her bolt on a debut, spends a year piecing together fra... Read more »| 11 Jan 2010 -
Music
Ella Montclare - I Surrender
While the seemingly endless horde of eccentric and energetic young female performers (Flo, Marina, Little Boots, Ellie Goulding…) rush the charts, Ell... Read more »| 11 Jan 2010 -
Film
Treeless Mountain
Brooklyn-based So Yong Kim draws on her own memories growing up in Korea for her second feature film Treeless Mountain. Young sisters Jin and Bin are left wi... Read more »| 11 Jan 2010 -
MusicTommy T - Prester John Sessions
One of the most ancient countries in the world, Ethiopia’s wellspring of history and mysticism – not to mention its status as the spiritual home ... Read more »| 08 Jan 2010 -
Film
Mugabe and the White African
Mugabe and the White African delivers an emotive insight into the effects of Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe’s land acquisition policy. The docum... Read more »| 08 Jan 2010 -
Film
It's Complicated
The middle-aged demographic is notably underserved in mainstream romantic comedy, but on the occasion that it is, it would be nice to see an alternat... Read more »| 08 Jan 2010 -
Music
Homework: We Should Not Regress
Edinburgh-based quartet Homework have been lighting up the capital with their jittering ADD art-rock in recent months, bagging a slot at T In The Park and making noise with their sought after debut EP in the process. A critical year awaits. Read more »| 08 Jan 2010 -
Music
Emika - Drop the Other
Drop the Other is how Nico might have sounded had she been wearing a helmet in 1988 and lived to remain at the avant garde of the Berlin scene. It’s a ... Read more »| 08 Jan 2010