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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Film
Westworld
A consequence-free environment with a disposable android population, Westworld is the theme park of the future where the most illicit and amoral of wild-west... Read more »| 17 Sep 2008 -
Music
Wire @ The Arches, 11 Sep
It's "Pink Flag!" over here and "Pink Flag!" over there—all through the night. Nostalgia is a delicate thing at a rock show. There’s a certain un... Read more »| 17 Sep 2008 -
Music
The Record Round Up: September, 2008
The Round Up will critically acquaint you with some of the month’s brightest (and shitest!) long-playing releases Read more »| 17 Sep 2008 -
Music
Scars on Broadway - World Long Gone
Its simplistic, stabbing staccato rhythm is perhaps even hooky enough to rival Chop Suey Read more »| 17 Sep 2008 -
Clubs
Liza-Marie: A change of heart
We last interviewed Scotland's L-Marie in Sept 2006 for her successful mixtape release. Now step forward Liza-Marie, who talks to Scott Ramage about a change of name and a change in style Read more »| 16 Sep 2008 -
Music
Take A Worm For A Walk Week - The Monroe Transfer
Evil? Yep. Pop? Maybe if you squint. But twee? Never. Read more »| 16 Sep 2008
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Music
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déja Vu Live
A conversation of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s merits could be the same today as it was in the 70s. Fan 1: “Have you heard that new album by ... Read more »| 16 Sep 2008 -
Music
O'Death - Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin
A brutal and riotous stomp of punk, bluegrass and swing Read more »| 16 Sep 2008 -
Art
Kate Davis @ Sorcha Dallas
A series of framed drawings runs across the two rooms of Sorcha Dallas gallery. In the first, a magazine page ground into gravel by a passing tyre, the word... Read more »| 16 Sep 2008 -
Music
Bon Iver - For Emma
Nearly everything about the song For Emma exhibits some degree of plurality: Justin Vernon’s choir of falsettos, multiple guitar overlays, the lyrical ... Read more »| 16 Sep 2008 -
Music
David Vandervelde - Waiting For the Sunrise
A top-down Cadillac drive through the breezy West Coast scene of the 70s, and something of a beautiful trip Read more »| 16 Sep 2008 -
Film
Faintheart
Brought to us by the unlikely combination of MySpace and Film4, Faintheart is a moderately entertaining British comedy. Eddie Marsan plays the loveable Richa... Read more »| 16 Sep 2008 -
Music
Meshuggah at The Garage Preview
Nobody likes it when a band cancels, not even the band. So when Meshuggah vocalist Jens Kidman tells a packed Garage how happy the Swedish experi-metal quint... Read more »| 15 Sep 2008 -
Music
Die! Die! Die! @ Captain's Rest, 9 Sep
If I know anything about Kiwi band managers - and having watched an awful lot of Flight of the Conchords, I’d say I'm pretty clued up - it’s that... Read more »| 15 Sep 2008 -
Music
The Faint - Fasciinatiion
While Fasciinatiion presses aural boundaries, it falls short lyrically Read more »| 15 Sep 2008