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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TheatreMove @ ABC
Tony Mills is not only one of the hardest working dancers in Scotland, he is almost one of the most restless. When not painting his body white for some Butoh... Read more »| 23 Jan 2011 -
MusicEmily Jane White – Ode To Sentience
Releasing her third album in as many years, Californian Emily Jane White’s prolific nature is matched only by her strict adherence to the purist folk c... Read more »| 21 Jan 2011 -
FilmThe Switch
“It's how everybody's doing it these days.” So says Debbie (Lewis) of the 'I'm getting pregnant party' during which her friend Kassie (Aniston) w... Read more »| 21 Jan 2011 -
Music
Chapel Club – Palace
On their debut, London-based five-piece Chapel Club offer up a remarkably accomplished take on the kind of stadium rock-meets-Joy Division sound familiar to ... Read more »| 21 Jan 2011 -
Theatre
The Ushers @ Tron
Raindog, founded around a group of actors with a vision of the plays that they wanted to see, has become more famous in the past decade for their film and te... Read more »| 20 Jan 2011 -
Music
The Tenebrous Liar – Run Run Run
Anyone who remembers with faint disappointment when the White Stripes and their ilk were the ‘saviours of rock and roll’ would do well to have a ... Read more »| 20 Jan 2011
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MusicJames Blake – James Blake
Having wowed audiences last year with a trio of acclaimed EPs, here Londoner James Blake expands his imaginative soul hybrid over eleven full tracks, and lau... Read more »| 20 Jan 2011 -
Music
The Dirtbombs – Party Store
Whereas Party Store’s predecessor set out to bring new life to the soul classics of the 70s, the Dirtbombs’ latest favours the seminal Detroit te... Read more »| 20 Jan 2011 -
Art
Clusterbomb @ Patriothall Gallery
Notwithstanding the occasional guidebook erroneously, and rather hilariously, describing Stockbridge as ‘bohemian’, it’s probably fair to s... Read more »| 20 Jan 2011 -
Art
Artur Zmijewski: Democracies @ Tramway
Set against a backdrop of nationwide public concern over government funding cuts, and a heightened political engagement within the art world, Artur Zmijewski... Read more »| 19 Jan 2011 -
Music
The Chemistry Set – This Day Will Never Happen Again
The Chemistry Set were a band who were all-too-often overlooked, emerging from the late 80s British neo-psychedelia scene with a sound that owed as much to E... Read more »| 19 Jan 2011 -
Film
The Green Hornet
During the 1930s families would gather round their crackling wireless to hear the radio adventures of a playboy billionaire turned crime fighter, but this wa... Read more »| 19 Jan 2011 -
Music
Deerhoof – Vs Evil
Deerhoof are a band of well-established contradictions, not just in terms of their skillful ability to combine leftfield musical experimentation with a solid... Read more »| 19 Jan 2011 -
Film
The Reef
Sharks are scary. Almost the perfect movie villains. There's no dialogue to worry about, no fiendish plan to come up with, and all they have to do is threate... Read more »| 17 Jan 2011 -
Music
The Go! Team: Rolling Blackouts are Go!
Cult live favourite The Go! Team's Ian Parton talks to us about the band's sample-heavy third LP, Rolling Blackouts Read more »| 17 Jan 2011