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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Theatre
Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair tweaks the traditional 'boy meets girl' scenario into girl meets boy, girl meets another boy, and another boy... Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
MusicFrightened Rabbit - Head Rolls Off
A bold new year's resolution made hymnal Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
MusicHoly Fuck @ Stereo
A musical hormone imbalance that will turn you into a sweaty convulsing mess whether you like it or not Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
MusicThe Dirty Dozen - March
From soft-rock stadium rockers to pan-continental beat plunderers, Nick Mitchell rakes around The Skinny's mail bag for that golden single Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Books
The Happiest Man in the World by Alec Wilkinson
It is a little underwhelming that Wilkinson's style is so consistently considered Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Film
Once DVD Review
The sleeper hit of last year. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008
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Music
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Dig, Lazarus, Dig!! is too polished and preened to stagger down Cave's own self-made path of righteousness Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
MusicMetal Up Your Ass - March, 2008
Dust down your musket, pull on those combats and wage hostilities at the finest in heavy gigs in Scotland this month. Easy on the slam dancing though, eh Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Clubs
Hip-hop Core Highlights
Well as the nation drags itself from the despair of winter and into the alleged joys of spring there's only one major talking point of the hip-hop calendar t... Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Music
The Long Blondes - Century
If you can't stand reinvention in the name of chart-bound populism then this new century's definitely not for you... Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Music
Yeasayer - Wait For The Summer
Will wedge your mind open to the possibility that even panpipes are acceptable in music Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Music
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
An extraordinarily accomplished and thoroughly engaging piece of Mancunian songsmithery Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Clubs
Slam - Staccato Rave
Everything in this track blends together nicely, and images of a packed dancefloor throbbing to this song easily come to mind Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
FilmThe Game Plan
One suspects The Skinny isn't read by too many seven year old girls, so the intended audience for The Game Plan is unlikely to be put out by the news that, i... Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Music
Autechre: Dancers in the Dark
With leotards on standby, The Skinny prepped itself for a deep and meaningful with Autechre's Sean Booth, and was pleasantly surprised by the plain speaking Mancunian's willingness to chat about his opinions on music, MySpace and getting smoked out with his mates. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008