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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ArtJeremy Millar @ CCA
The first piece encountered in Jeremy Millar’s current show, Resemblances, Sympathies and Other Acts, is one that hauntingly resonates after viewing. C... Read more »| 04 May 2011 -
MusicWild Beasts: "We don't have to scream from the top of our lungs anymore"
With the follow-up to their Mercury-nominated Two Dancers due to drop any day, Wild Beasts' Hayden Thorpe talks progress, success, and Bono's big yap Read more »| 03 May 2011 -
MusicThe Dirty Dozen – May 2011
With the obvious exception of Beady Eye, this month’s singles pile gets a shed more lovin’ thrown at it than by our local rock stars of recent times. Well, summer time is on the way after all, a natural aphrodisiac as the Fresh Prince once claimed Read more »| 03 May 2011 -
FilmInsidious
Inadvertently inventing torture-porn can’t be the proudest moment in the careers of James Wan and Leigh Whannell, respectively the director and writer ... Read more »| 03 May 2011 -
Film
Joe Cornish: "I bullied my way in front of the camera, but in truth I was always much happier behind it”
Joe Cornish swaps Song Wars and Star Wars spoofs for high-octane action and political commentary in his blistering directorial debut Attack the Block Read more »| 03 May 2011 -
Music
Citizens – Try Harder EP
Citizens have at last captured the sheer raw aggression of their live shows Read more »| 03 May 2011
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Music
Efrim Menuck – Plays "High Gospel"
As a founding member of both Godspeed You! Black Emperor and A Silver Mount Zion (under its many varied monickers) Efrim Menuck has spent 15 years as a centr... Read more »| 03 May 2011 -
Music
Enablers – Blown Realm and Stalled Explosions
Enablers’ mélange of stream-of-consciousness poetry and juddering math-rock was never going to make them stadium-fillers, but there was always s... Read more »| 03 May 2011 -
Music
Everything's Getting Older: a track by track guide
To celebrate the imminent release of his collaboration with musical polymath Bill Wells, fellow Falkirk troubadour Aidan Moffat introduces Everything's Getting Older Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
Music
That Fucking Tank @ 13th Note, 24 April
The proto-industrial clamour of Rollor has plenty of strengths, like a drum machine that’ll make the fillings in your teeth rattle, and Matt Harris&rsq... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
Film
Reel Talk: Film distributors love the smell of easy money in the morning
Everyone loves 70s American cinema, right? The scattershot chaos of Altman, the swaggering rock and roll of Scorsese, those DePalma fever dreams; a golden ag... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
Music
Austra – Feel It Break
With a tense phantom-like clasp, Katie Stelmanis’ icy vocals disarm the listener, seeping under one’s skin like anaesthetic. Her operatic procliv... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
Music
James Pants - James Pants
James Pants' latest album was recorded in his parents' basement— his parents being two Presbyterian ministers— a fact which is both at home and a... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
Film
Film Events in May
With Ghostface back haunting cinema in Scream 4, it's appropriate to ask the question: do you like scary movies? If so, May is chock-full of films for you. T... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
BooksEverybody Loves You When You're Dead by Neil Strauss
Whilst not being the world’s number one pick-up artist, as detailed in his book The Game, Neil Strauss works at his day job, interviewing celeb... Read more »| 02 May 2011