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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TheatreAl Seed: Splinters
Agata Maslowska observes Al Seed spread his wings and educate the people Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
MusicMeursault - Nothing Broke EP
Amongst the 'bigger' songs on Meursault's debut album, A Single Stretch of Land showed that songwriter and vocalist Neil Pennycook can do pared-back and rest... Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
Music
Zappa Plays Zappa
In an increasingly homogenised musical climate, how do you approach maintaining the legacy of a man who was, and still is, ahead of his time? Joe Barton talks to Dweezil Zappa, band leader of the Zappa Plays Zappa project, to find out how he’s keeping the memory, and music, of his father alive Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen - June, 2009
Plenty of new music in the D-12 sack this month, but Nick Mitchell finds that there's just no keeping a few Britpop veterans down Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
Music
Matteah Baim - Laughing Boy
Previously half of Metallic Falcons with Sierra Casady (of weird dream-pop eccentrics CocoRosie), second album Laughing Boy reveals Matteah Baim to be more g... Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
MusicThe Ghost of a Thousand - New Hopes, New Demonstrations
At a certain point, hardcore kids got sick of just mashing trap kits and chugga-chugga riffs. It seems Brighton-hailing The Ghost of a Thousand were some of ... Read more »| 01 Jun 2009
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MusicBellini - The Precious Prize Of Gravity
Albini-produced discordance on Italian/American Collective's third offering Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
Art
The Annuale 09
What to expect of the Embassy-run art festival as it turns six this month? A super reliable internet source profiles the developmental milestones of a six-ye... Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
Clubs
Holy Ghost @ Dirty Hearts Club, Snafu, 4 Jun
Hailing from Brooklyn, Holy Ghost! are Nicholas Millhiser and Alex Frankel. The pair were formerly part of the live rap group Automato whose debut was produc... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
Music
Meet E: A Werewolf in LA
Life rarely rained for Mark Everett, but it frequently poured. The man known as E has spent the past four years searching for answers from his heartbreaking past. Now he tells Finbarr Bermingham that he just might have found them Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
Film
12 Rounds
The Wrestler director Darren Aronofsky recently lamented the decline of the action movie muscle man. But with the recent comebacks of Willis, Stallone and Va... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
Music
goNorth 2009 @ Inverness (Various), 11-12 Jun
And so it seems the festival season has crept back upon us, sidling up with all the stealth and dexterity of a hungry cat, almost eerily unnoticed. First the... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
Music
Acoustic Ladyland @ The Voodoo Rooms, 24 Jun
Acoustic Ladyland are the antithesis of the anodyne listening experience provided by the common-or-garden ‘mellow sax trio’. Instead, London&rsqu... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
Music
Manic Street Preachers at Barrowlands, 25 May
Another dreich night in Glasgow fails to dampen the spirits outside the Barrowlands as the hordes bay for the live premiere of Journal for Plague Lovers. Pla... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
Clubs
Pat Mahoney @ Let It Bleed & The Deep End, Snafu, 6 Jun
The hip sounds of Brooklyn and the Death From Above label continue to infiltrate the Granite City throughout June with a night of the finest disco ever to em... Read more »| 29 May 2009