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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ComedyTrodd en Bratt: Well Done You
Ruth Bratt is from the comedy circuit. Lucy Trodd is from the serious circuit. Their show is a bit of both. Both women are excellent actors and talented cha... Read more »| 08 Aug 2012 -
MusicMatthew Dear talks Beams, Eno and the rhythm of life
As Ghostly founder Matthew Dear prepares to release the follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Black City, we caught up with him to talk about Brian Eno, the tempo of 'real life,' love, and Elton John Read more »| 07 Aug 2012 -
MusicSwans – The Seer
With a running time of two hours, Swans' second album since the project's reactivation in 2010 is something of an endurance test. Yet, given band leader M... Read more »| 07 Aug 2012 -
MusicNed Collette & Wirewalker – 2
The second album from Ned Collette’s Wirewalker project, and the first since the Melbourne-born songwriter relocated to Berlin, subtly augments his ... Read more »| 07 Aug 2012 -
Film
Jackpot
The success of Headhunters suggested an inevitability to Jo Nesbø’s canon being mined for more dark tales to turn into modestly budgeted, easy t... Read more »| 06 Aug 2012 -
Film
Brave
Pixar takes a turn to fairytale-telling, princess protagonist-leading animation with Brave. Set in the Scottish Highlands, fiery-headed Merida (Kelly MacDona... Read more »| 06 Aug 2012
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FilmThe Forgiveness of Blood
From Colombian drug-mules in debut Maria Full of Grace to Balkan blood feuds in The Forgiveness of Blood, American director Joshua Marston again uses an out... Read more »| 06 Aug 2012 -
Film
Monster Brawl
At some point every horror fan has wondered who'd win if two headline monsters got to duking it out. Writer/director Jesse T. Cook takes that to the next lev... Read more »| 06 Aug 2012 -
Music
Factory Floor: "We're still totally unsure of what we do; it's still exploratory"
Factory Floor have dragged industrial music kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century with their blend of techno, experimental noise and improvised performance Read more »| 03 Aug 2012 -
Clubs
Com Truise: "I do like to pretend I'm at NASA Control, launching space shuttles"
As Com Truise releases his rarities compilation and prepares for a return to Scotland, he talks to The Skinny about sci-fi, synthesisers and his home at Ghostly International Read more »| 03 Aug 2012 -
Music
Morrissey @ The Usher Hall, 30 July
With no current record deal and self-imposed retirement looming (2014, he says), Morrissey has everything and nothing to prove tonight. Recent reports sugg... Read more »| 02 Aug 2012 -
Music
Dan Deacon – America
America by name, America by nature. Dan Deacon's follow-up to his 2009 career high Bromst is swathed in the big, bold and sometimes graceless chutzpah of the... Read more »| 02 Aug 2012 -
Music
Stealing Sheep – Into the Diamond Sun
If you've heard Stealing Sheep's single Shut Eye, you'd be forgiven for writing them off as an all-girl Fleet Foxes tribute act. Nothing wrong with that,... Read more »| 02 Aug 2012 -
Music
Nathan Fake – Steam Days
For an artist whose first album cradled one of techno’s most evocative slow-burners to date, anything that follows is always going to be held up in c... Read more »| 02 Aug 2012 -
Music
Franz Nicolay – Do The Struggle
Anyone who ever saw him play with The Hold Steady would never have doubted whether Franz Nicolay had the cojones to be a good frontman. And so it has trans... Read more »| 02 Aug 2012