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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MusicBang On! – [sic]
The debut from 21-year-old Liverpudlian rapper Elliott Egerton expresses the frustrations, tensions and mundanity of inner-city poverty with disarming dire... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
MusicGeoff Barrow talks DROKK: "2000AD is as important to me as Public Enemy"
Portishead's Geoff Barrow gives us the lowdown on his new Judge Dredd-inspired synth project, DROKK. Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
MusicTaffy – Caramel Sunset
In the UK, Britpop’s spectre – not Pulp or Blur, but the bread and butter bands that once padded out Shine compilations – has kept a penite... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
MusicAdmiral Fallow – Tree Bursts In Snow
Admiral Fallow are a success story to warm the most jaded of hearts, their measured ascent possessing the kind of slow-burn, grass-roots momentum that can&... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
Film
Movie Løve: Director Mia Hansen-Løve in interview
May sees the release of Goodbye First Love, the third film from Mia Hansen-Løve. The Skinny sat down with the talented director to discuss how she caught the filmmaking bug and her era-spanning narratives Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
Music
Divorce Album Fundraiser @ The Old Hairdressers, 11 May
Recording music does not come cheaply, kids. Aye, so Lou Barlow got away with making albums on a shoestring with his four track in the eighties, but times (a... Read more »| 02 May 2012
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Music
Scottish Wind, Scottish Rain: Frightened Rabbit's Highland Tour
As Scott Hutchison and co approach recording their fourth album, their first for a major label, the band opted for the road less travelled to preview new material. The Skinny caught up with them for a few drams on their Highland excursion Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
Music
I Like Trains – The Shallows
It would be too easy to write off I Like Trains as post-rock also-rans; over the last five years the Leeds outfit have flirted with the notion of a breakthro... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: May 2012 Horoscopes
ARIES You’ve always told people you were an 'animal lover' but no-one ever thought you meant literally. In May you experience love at first sight when... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
MusicMummy Short Arms – Old Jack's Windowless Playhouse
In an ideal world, Mummy Short Arms would have called in Steve Albini to produce their debut album. He would have been the man to capture the full intensit... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
Music
Bigg Jus – Machines That Make Civilization Fun
Lyrically, Bigg Jus hasn't switched up the formula much for Machines – his flows are still acerbic, passionate attacks on inequality and established p... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
Music
The Cribs – In the Belly of the Brazen Bull
These are bleak times for the mid-Noughties’ bright young things: The Libertines are a spent force, Razorlight have collapsed under Jonny Borrell&rsquo... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
Music
El-P – Cancer4Cure
It's been five years since El-P's I'll Sleep When You're Dead. There's not much point prefixing anything the rapper/producer behind the Definitive Jux l... Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
Music
The Afghan Whigs: "We stayed true to ourselves; always walked our own line"
As the reunited Afghan Whigs prepare to take the stage for the first time in 13 years, a reflective Greg Dulli offers an album by album guide to the inimitable soul rockers’ catalogue. Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
Music
Garbage – Not Your Kind of People
Garbage have never been a band of much substance but at their peak they produced some brilliantly damaged pop music. Not Your Kind of People conten... Read more »| 01 May 2012