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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MusicShrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
The notion of lineage looms large for many heavy metal subgenres, and probably none more so than that of stoner doom. Consequently, this debut collaboration ... Read more »| 16 Nov 2009 -
FilmHarry Brown
One of the most morally debateable films of recent months, Harry Brown is a vigilante thriller which treads dangerously close to empty sensationalism. After... Read more »| 16 Nov 2009 -
Books
David Eagleman in Conversation
The minutiae of life can be boxed down to a list of statistics; 30 years tucked up in bed, 200 days in the shower, five months reading dog-eared magazines on... Read more »| 15 Nov 2009 -
Film
The White Ribbon
Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or winning film The White Ribbon, set in rural Germany in 1913, depicts the disintegration of a small community as viole... Read more »| 13 Nov 2009 -
Music
Mew @ ABC, 5 Nov
Pitchfork may have ridiculously yet somehow quite perfectly summarised Mew as “Queensryche meets Sigur Ros” in times gone by, but No More Stories... Read more »| 11 Nov 2009 -
Music
Daniel Johnston @ Queen's Hall, 4 Nov
From the eerie silence filling the packed auditorium of the Queen's Hall, it’s clear that this is no ordinary gig. The usual pint-holding scrum of atte... Read more »| 11 Nov 2009
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MusicMaps @ Nice'n' Sleazy, 6 Nov
Northampton duo Maps (ostensibly helmed by James Chapman) certainly have a solid fan base, if tonight's worship-like stance by the audience's front row is an... Read more »| 11 Nov 2009 -
Music
Jack Rose & The Black Twig Pickers @ Stereo, 7 Nov
After settling down into his fold-up chair, Nathan Bowles convinces a receptive crowd to conquer their shyness and come closer to the stage. Seated a... Read more »| 11 Nov 2009 -
ArtLara Favaretto @ Tramway
As anyone who had the misfortune of watching Final Destination 3D will tell you, the Car Wash can be a pretty treacherous place. I’m reminded of this u... Read more »| 11 Nov 2009 -
Theatre
In Transit
Gareth K Vile chats to Mark Prebble and Marion Short, the team behind In Transit at the GRV Read more »| 11 Nov 2009 -
Music
Yo La Tengo @ ABC, 6 Nov
The return of Yo La Tengo to Scottish shores carries an air of expectation. ABC1 draws a huddle of early comers for ex-Gorky's frontman Euros Childs' (***) c... Read more »| 10 Nov 2009 -
Music
Blueflint - High Bright Morning
With First Aid Kit spearheading the current 'traditional' revival within mainstream folk, the time seems ripe for talented Edinburgh duo Blueflint to cross o... Read more »| 10 Nov 2009 -
Music
Playing The Field
Following on from his critically successful debut, The Field returns to move our hearts and feet at Optimo this month. The Skinny reflects on his organic techno and has a word with the man himself. Read more »| 10 Nov 2009 -
Music
Violet Violet - The City is Full of Beasts
At its heart, punk ditched glam spectacle for raw emotion, rejecting bourgeois musical virtuosity because it had nothing to say to the disaffected yo... Read more »| 10 Nov 2009 -
Theatre
Insane in the Brain
It may seem an unlikely pairing - a seminal 60's novel on madness and a contemporary dance form from the ghetto - Bounce's "street dance version of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" is a slamdunk success. Read more »| 10 Nov 2009