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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TheatreDance Maximus @ Buzzcut
Dance Maximus are coming for you, your brothers and sisters - and your firstborn. Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
Theatre
IAM @ Tramway
IAM captures music, movement and moments of magic. Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
TheatreGoddess @ The Storytelling Centre
“The earth is trembling with the promise of a new wave,” announce three actresses. Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
Art
Cancer Sucks: The Honest Death of Tutu the Feminist Performance Artist
Stephanie Torrance looks at how feminist artists are dealing with breast cancer. Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
Music
Holy Mountain / Happy Particles / Body Parts @ Mono, 5 May
From the divine to the ridiculously heavy, as Holy Mountain kick out jams straddling the vintage and the envelope-pushing. Read more »| 10 May 2012 -
MusicNasty P – Story So Far
Story So Far by Nasty P is a cohesive, satisfying collection of hip-hop cuts aimed squarely at the dancefloor. Read more »| 10 May 2012
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Film
The Raid
Unlikely pairings can be perfect. Indonesian film The Raid centres around a police bust in a large tower block filled with criminals, guns, and machetes; unl... Read more »| 10 May 2012 -
Music
King Tuff – King Tuff
Even if this brand of finely tuned garage rock is not entirely groundbreaking, and the infectious vocal hooks on each track are largely some variation on c... Read more »| 09 May 2012 -
Music
Cornershop – Urban Turban
Cornershop have been releasing records for more than 20 years but are still bizarrely viewed in some quarters as one-hit-wonders. It's an entirely undeserv... Read more »| 09 May 2012 -
Music
Track-by-track: El-P Unveils Cancer4Cure
Pushing hip-hop ever forward with his first full-blown album in five years, maverick Brooklyn producer El-P explains Cancer4Cure's compelling origins Read more »| 09 May 2012 -
Film
West Meets East: Director Gareth Evans on The Raid
He's the man behind the most exciting martial arts movie to come out of Asia in years. His name is Gareth Evans... and he's Welsh. We spoke to the talented director after his blistering new film The Raid closed GFF 2012's FrightFest in style Read more »| 09 May 2012 -
Music
Still Flyin' – On a Bedroom Wall
The second LP from San Francisco’s Still Flyin’ takes its cues from the dreamy atmospheres of understated 80s indie; the textures of opener Els... Read more »| 08 May 2012 -
MusicDead Mellotron – Glitter
Given the celebrated output of Deerhunter/Atlas Sound foreman Bradford Cox, it’s surprising just how few imitators he has. There’s good reason fo... Read more »| 08 May 2012 -
Film
Café De Flore
After a brief sojourn into British period drama with The Young Victoria, Quebecois Jean-Marc Vallée returns home for Café De Flore, and in the ... Read more »| 08 May 2012 -
Film
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
Through a haze of marijuana smoke we’re introduced to Jason Segel’s Jeff, a 30-year-old galumph who makes the actor’s earlier man-child cha... Read more »| 08 May 2012