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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FilmThe Class
Laurent Cantet’s docudrama set in a tough Parisian Junior High, pits co-writer Francois Bégaudeau as Mr. Marin, a young teacher desperate to mak... Read more »| 12 Feb 2009 -
MusicLate of the Pier @ Òran Mór, 8 Feb
Despite attempts by a certain publication to convince otherwise, Late of the Pier have never been a comfortable fit for nu-rave 2.0 - too awkward, too unusua... Read more »| 12 Feb 2009 -
Music
Sergeant Buzfuz - High Slang
Buzfuz throw in gun-slinging country rhythms, anti-folk and subtle electronics Read more »| 11 Feb 2009 -
MusicVarious Artists - Floored Memory... Fading Location
Floored Memory...Fading Location, a compilation from FatCat’s instrumental imprint 130701, is a musical exploration of the head. The four artists featu... Read more »| 11 Feb 2009 -
Music
Red Hot and Clued In
Prior to the release of Dark Was the Night, Red Hot founder John Carlin explains the ever-present need to be vigilant about HIV and the ways that the creativ... Read more »| 10 Feb 2009 -
Music
BubbleWrap Holocaust - BubbleWrap Holocaust
A peculiar catchiness found in moments of clever sloganeering and post-modern poetry Read more »| 10 Feb 2009
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Music
Glissando @ Wee Red Bar, 6 Feb
Trampoline promotes a night of post-rock influenced groups, with mixed success. Read more »| 10 Feb 2009 -
Music
Oberman Knocks - 13th Smallest
This is a very strange body of work. If you’re into those ‘file under’ comparisons, you’d better make a new category, unless you&rsqu... Read more »| 10 Feb 2009 -
Music
First Aid Kit - Drunken Trees EP
Those Swedes have got it together. Apart from weathering economic armageddon quite comfortably, they're also pumping out spine-tingling pop (The Knife), phen... Read more »| 10 Feb 2009 -
MusicFabriclive 44 - Commix
Delving into the deeper end of the drum and bass spectrum, Commix have brought back the jungle in the next instalment of the Fabric Live series, number 44. ... Read more »| 10 Feb 2009 -
Theatre
Manipulate
Agata Maslowska enjoys the joy of puppets Read more »| 10 Feb 2009 -
Theatre
Juan Martin Flamenco
Gareth K Vile tries to impress a date with his sophisticated and taste. She doesn't turn up, but he is impressed by Juan Martin. Read more »| 10 Feb 2009 -
Music
Red Hot 4 U
Dark Was The Night is the fifteenth collection from the Red Hot Organisation, dedicated to fighting Aids through pop culture. Paul Mitchell looks at four of ... Read more »| 09 Feb 2009 -
Music
Mongrel - Hit From the Morning Sun
In their finer moments here, Mongrel come over as snotty and snappy thanks to some furious emceeing from guest vocalist Pariz-1. The group pools members from... Read more »| 09 Feb 2009 -
Music
Electricity in Our Homes - Gymnastics
So these guys can be seen playing über-short sets in London’s trendiest nightspots (‘cos they’re all down there) and generating quite ... Read more »| 09 Feb 2009