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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ArtSonica: Ecstatic Arc @ Tramway
The premiere of Robbie Thomson’s new live performance work is a truly awesome mix of theatre, music and visual art. It's centerpiece is a Tesla coil mo... Read more »| 17 Nov 2012 -
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Sonica: Sandglasses @ Tramway
A minimalist concept masks a complex combination of media in Juste Janulyte’s Sandglasses. Four cellists are encapsulated within large tulle columns, h... Read more »| 16 Nov 2012 -
ArtSonica: Our Contemporaries @ Tramway
Our Contemporaries is dystopian sci-fi pared down to basic components. Mookyoung Shin’s futuristic nightmare mixes automation with bureaucracy. Rows ... Read more »| 16 Nov 2012 -
FilmSilver Linings Playbook
Silver Linings Playbook is a romantic comedy about two bipolar screw-ups trying to win a dance competition. Chris Tucker is in a supporting role. It should b... Read more »| 15 Nov 2012 -
Music
Buck 65 / The Levee Strollers @ King Tut's, 11 November
Tonight's support act are a downhome (although Glaswegian) country and western band called The Levee Strollers. Their enthusiastic but wholly incongruous per... Read more »| 14 Nov 2012 -
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The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 14 Nov
The Skinny's latest columnist, the News Badger (meles meles nuntius; Brock to his friends) joins us for the first of a daily roundup of the latest news and gossip from the world of culture! Read more »| 14 Nov 2012
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Theatre
My Shrinking Life @ Tron
Twelve years ago, celebrated Scottish actor Alison Peebles was diagnosed with the degenerative condition multiple sclerosis. This unsparing show for the Nati... Read more »| 14 Nov 2012 -
MusicBill Wells & Aidan Moffat / Rick Redbeard @ Cottiers, 7 November
After several years of performing solo with next-to-nowt to line his merch stand, Rick Anthony’s Rick Redbeard guise is picking up pace. Debut album Th... Read more »| 13 Nov 2012 -
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Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti @ Stereo, 8 November
Ariel Pink has come a long way from making music in his bedroom. Hailed as a lo-fi pioneer and championed by the likes of Animal Collective, the Beverly Hi... Read more »| 13 Nov 2012 -
MusicDizraeli & The Small Gods – Never Mind
Unlike Scroobius Pip, another artist who made the transition from hip-hop influenced poet to rapper with a record deal, Dizraeli's flow is based on literate,... Read more »| 13 Nov 2012 -
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Sonica: Palimpsest @ Tramway
Four robots, two artists and one large drawing space, illuminated on the floor. A projector in the ceiling casts images upon the floor and the artists respon... Read more »| 13 Nov 2012 -
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Animal Collective @ O2 ABC, 7 November
In the past we’ve witnessed Animal Collective wing it with a man down as well as push brand new material on the back of an already shrink-wrapped fre... Read more »| 12 Nov 2012 -
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Andrew Black and Tony Swain @ The Duchy
The Duchy’s annual pairing of artists at different stages of their career, Aereated Bread Company presents work by Andrew Black, a recent Painting and ... Read more »| 12 Nov 2012 -
Film
Amour
We're used to Michael Haneke films being difficult viewing experiences, but Amour is something different from this great filmmaker. Often accused of being co... Read more »| 12 Nov 2012 -
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Soundgarden – Past, Present, and Future
On the day their comeback album is released in the UK, Soundgarden's Ben Shepherd gives The Skinny an insider's view of the Seattle legends' story so far, with a few surprise guest questions along the way Read more »| 12 Nov 2012