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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ArtKit Leffler @ Patriothall Gallery
What more suitable way for a late-April art show to open, than with a homage to the impending Royal wedding? In her work, Kit Leffler appropriates images fr... Read more »| 09 May 2011 -
MusicDavid Thomas Broughton @ The Arches, 6 May
RM Hubbert is discreetly building a reputation as a strikingly talented and distinctive performer of acoustic guitar instrumentals. His flamenco-tinged piece... Read more »| 09 May 2011 -
Books
Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
Alternate history novels can often be clichéd works, where the alteration is that either the Nazis won World War 2, or the South won the American Civi... Read more »| 09 May 2011 -
TheatreME ME ME: Mobile Evolution @ G12
“I seem to be always trying to get myself off the ground.” Read more »| 09 May 2011 -
Film
Biutiful
It's not as if we expected a frothy comedy from director Iñárritu, but Biutiful raises the bar for just how grim things can get in a film. Uxba... Read more »| 09 May 2011 -
Film
Holy Rollers
Director Kevin Asch’s first feature film follows the bizarre true story of Sam (Jesse Eisenberg), a naive and awkward Hasidic Jew embroiled in an ecsta... Read more »| 09 May 2011
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MusicWaldner – Found and Lost
When your voice is as prominent in the mix as David Waldner’s is on Found and Lost, it’s difficult to disguise lyrical faux-pas. Musically, Waldn... Read more »| 09 May 2011 -
Film
Outside the Law
Much like his Oscar-nominated 2006 film Days of Glory, Rachid Bouchareb's Outside the Law gives us an Algerian perspective on key events in French history. T... Read more »| 09 May 2011 -
Comedy
Richard Herring: Christ on a Bike
Christ On A Bike is a resurrection of the show that started Herring’s career as a solo comedian in 2001, and the original run passed off without major ... Read more »| 06 May 2011 -
Music
Fight Like Apes @ King Tut's, 1 May
The sun is shining, the weather is sweet and there’s a room just itching for some Irish punk hijinks, but before that there’s the NME-weaned styl... Read more »| 06 May 2011 -
Music
Keelhaul @ Nice 'n' Sleazy, 28 April
Given that Britain seems to be swept away in mass wedding hysteria, it’s heartening to see that at least a few people have dragged themselves away from... Read more »| 06 May 2011 -
Music
Pseudo Nippon – Universal Pork Tai Chi
Alongside rib-tickling lingual mistranslations, you may now confidently add musician Pseudo Nippon to the list of curios produced by the head-knocking betwee... Read more »| 06 May 2011 -
Music
Moon Duo's Ripley Johnson: "I have control freak tendencies sometimes"
Moon Duo's Ripley Johnson on the importance of location, two heads being better than four, and why he believes in karma Read more »| 05 May 2011 -
Music
Hero Worship: Jeff Tweedy
Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchison waxes lyrical on his admiration for Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy Read more »| 05 May 2011 -
Music
Explosions in the Sky: "We definitely don’t want to do any sort of George Lucas tinkering with the past"
Explosions in the Sky’s Chris Hrasky explains how the cult Texan instrumentalists made it back from the brink, and why they'll never mess with their history Read more »| 05 May 2011