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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MusicKin - Dot Dot Dot EP
Manchester-baed Kin has one of the strangest and most compelling voices you’re ever likely to hear. It swells and builds like a more disturbing Karen O... Read more »| 23 Nov 2009 -
TheatreA Christmas Carol – with Extra Sauce
The fat man in the red suit is coming, putting stress on the credit cards and overdrafts. Blond Ambition urge us to treat ourselves. Read more »| 23 Nov 2009 -
Film
Paranormal Activity
Continuing the budgeting tradition of Blair Witch, Paranormal Activity is the similarly marketed, much-hyped story of young couple Kate Featherstone and Mica... Read more »| 23 Nov 2009 -
Music
2010: Year of the Rabbit?
As they prepare to unleash album number three, Finbarr Bermingham speaks to Frightened Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchison to find out what 2010 holds in store. Read more »| 23 Nov 2009 -
Music
Eagleowl - Sleep the Winter
A song’s beauty can reside in the slightest of touches, the line separating a graceful composition from a shiver-inducing one sometimes as ephemeral as... Read more »| 20 Nov 2009 -
Music
Mariachi El Bronx @ Òran Mór, 18 Nov
It's hard to know what to expect from a Mariachi band's support act, but Finnish duo Jakko and Jay transcend any such pondering with an intensely eccentric s... Read more »| 20 Nov 2009
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Music
The Clientele - Bonfires On The Heath
When US tastemakers Pitchfork unveiled their list of the decade’s greatest albums, UK readers would have been excused for quizzically raising e... Read more »| 20 Nov 2009 -
FilmOrzel
Is it art or film? It's both, and painfully exciting. Gareth K Vile reviews 85a and LowSalt's recent performance event. Read more »| 20 Nov 2009 -
Theatre
Citizens: Venue of the Month
With more scenery and name changes than perhaps any other theatre, the story of The Citizen's Theatre is as intriguing as those it has produced for the stage. Read more »| 20 Nov 2009 -
Music
Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind
Animal Collective are outstandingly prolific. So reason suggests that after ten years of activity, they have to put out the inevitable clunker, right? Wrong.... Read more »| 20 Nov 2009 -
Film
A Serious Man
Larry Gropnik (Stuhlbarg) is a midwestern Jewish physics professor and 1967’s answer to Job. He has a cheating wife, an incapacitated brother, ... Read more »| 20 Nov 2009 -
Music
The Flaming Lips @ O2 Academy, 15 Nov
Perhaps even euphoria suffers from diminishing returns. That the Flaming Lips trade in such a sought-after commodity so successfully is certainly not... Read more »| 20 Nov 2009 -
Music
Amy Millan - Masters of the Burial
An integral component in the success of Canadian indie heroes Stars and Broken Social Scene, Amy Millan’s mellifluous tones are somewhat exposed on thi... Read more »| 20 Nov 2009 -
ClubsAnnie Mac Presents @ Xplicit, 21 Nov
Xplicit offers a line-up to rival the average London night on 21 November as the Annie Mac Presents Tour arrives in Edinburgh. Hand-picked by the first lady... Read more »| 19 Nov 2009 -
MusicMaxwell Panther - Do You Feel Different Yet?
What’s lower than lo-fi? No-fi still sounds daft. Belo-lo-fi? Whatever - when the genre-baptists decide upon a suitable candidate, Maxwell Panther can ... Read more »| 19 Nov 2009