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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MusicCapillary Action - So Embarassing
Despite having one of the worst covers ever to drop out of an envelope, this is actually a surprisingly enjoyable record. That is to say, it nicely satisfies... Read more »| 22 Apr 2009 -
Music
Alec Empire - Shivers EP
Having lost his way creatively in recent years, Alec Empire desperately needed to deliver on his latest mini-album. Instead, Shivers is definitively the wors... Read more »| 22 Apr 2009 -
MusicLady Sovereign - Jigsaw
Lady Sovereign’s sophomore effort has a lot to live up to. Her first album produced a U.S. number one single and established the 5ft 2in pocket dynamit... Read more »| 22 Apr 2009 -
MusicBlack Poets - Innocents and Thieves
To all the bands out there who currently sound like Pavement: you could be in trouble. It's funny how history's backdrop defines what's going to be successfu... Read more »| 22 Apr 2009 -
MusicFriendly Fires @ The Picture House, 6 May
They might have rode in amid next-big-thing hysteria, but dismiss St Albans trio Friendly Fires as over-hyped at your peril. Last year’s self-titled de... Read more »| 22 Apr 2009 -
Theatre
Magnetic North Chase After Mary Rose
Michael Cox discusses the updating of a late play by the author of Peter Pan: from lost boys to the lost mother. Read more »| 21 Apr 2009
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TheatreCopenhagen
Susannah Radford finds rich ideas in a play that intersects physics and relationships. Read more »| 21 Apr 2009 -
Comedy
Comics welcome ban on stags and hens at The Stand
The Stand turns away rowdy stag and hen nights and the comedians are definitely in favour. Read more »| 21 Apr 2009 -
Music
the pAper chAse - Someday This Could All Be Yours (Part 1)
A series of brilliant, if skewed, alternative pop songs Read more »| 21 Apr 2009 -
Music
Therapy? @ ABC2, 4 May
More than 20 years into their career, Irish alternative metal veterans Therapy? are back on tour in support of their tenth LP. Crooked Timber, this latest fu... Read more »| 21 Apr 2009 -
Clubs
Big Midget is Back
Lady Sovereign returns with a new album, her own record label a stronger drive than ever. David McNamara discovers how her career was almost ruined and the truth behind the sporty spice rumours. Read more »| 21 Apr 2009 -
Music
We See Lights @ 13th Note, 3 Apr
With raw four-part harmonies and the occasional ukulele, Woodenbox with a Fistful of Fivers (****) careen through a rockabilly set of macabre mariachi folk. ... Read more »| 21 Apr 2009 -
Music
Power Up: We Are The Physics @ Studio 24, 8 May
It’s impossible not to love We Are The Physics’ way with words. Their moniker was originally We Are The Physics Club And Therefore Everything We ... Read more »| 21 Apr 2009 -
Film
Happy Birthday GFT!
If you tend to prefer your cinemas with a little charm and magic, without overt corporate sponsorship and pesky multiplex convenience, you may also like to k... Read more »| 21 Apr 2009 -
Clubs
Mixed Bizness @ Sneaky Pete’s, 2 May
Eclectic seems to be the new buzzword around DJ circles, so instead of listing all the genres that Boom Monk Ben might play, we’ll just say he likes to... Read more »| 21 Apr 2009