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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MusicKurt Wagner & Cortney Tidwell Present Kort – Invariable Heartache
As musical partnerships go, Kurts and Cortneys go together less like a horse and carriage than a horse and a grunge Yoko prone to worrying Twitter-spasms. We... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
ClubsGold Panda: Well Groomed
One of the golden boys (excuse the pun) of 2010, Essex beatsmith Gold Panda talks about sampling, Ghostly International and the progress of his live show Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
MusicSquarepusher presents Shobaleader One – d'Demonstrator
Whether or not its highly dubious back-story is a smoke screen (allegedly Shobaleader One is a band formed by Tom Jenkinson together with a bunch of ... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
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The Last Battle – Heart of the Land, Soul of the Sea
For a band of six, Edinburgh’s The Last Battle sport a frail, minimal sound on debut album Heart of the Land, Soul of the Sea, based almost entirely on... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
FilmBrother
“You Japanese are so inscrutable”. It is a relief when a character says this in Brother for Beat Takeshi always has me reaching for the thesaurus... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
MusicGlasser – Ring
Glasser is Cameron Mesirow, a precociously gifted songwriter who, in crude splicing terms, evokes a Bat For Lashes/Dirty Projectors love affair on her revela... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010
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Music
Iain Campbell – ABSOLUTELY the best ABBA since ABBA
With numerous high-profile and high-concept multi-media performances and exhibitions now under his belt, the man formerly trading under the moniker +Do-NEIMA... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
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The Phantom Band – The Wants
Following on from last years’ blindsiding debut Checkmate Savage, feral Glaswegian sextet The Phantom Band have wasted precious little time in surfing ... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
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Belle & Sebastian – Write About Love
If the near-five year wait since The Life Pursuit and last year’s brilliant brace of albums from Camera Obscura and Butcher Boy led you to question Bel... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
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Warpaint – The Fool
Court martial! On charges of worst band-related misnomer since Mogwai entitled a post-rock album Happy Songs for Happy People. Los Angeles all-lady four-piec... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
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Track-by-track: The Phantom Band's Guide to The Wants
Strap yourself in as robo-folk's finest follow-up last year's inventive opus, Checkmate Savage this month. Track-by-track, The Phantom Band unveil The Wants... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
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Swans: The Ecstatic
The Phantom Band's Rick Anthony engages Michael Gira, mainstay of recently resurrected New York no wave crusaders Swans and founder of Young God Records Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
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Ice Cube: "I never left the game, the game’s trying to leave me"
From his furious beginnings with NWA to a latter-day rebirth as the lord of light family entertainment, this month Ice Cube returns to answer the critics who say Hollywood has diminished his edge Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
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Yeasayer's Chris Keating: "It’s all about not getting bored"
Chris Keating looks back at the success of second album Odd Blood whilst keeping an eye on the band’s glittering future Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
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Jamie Kenyon: Baptism by Fire
In the lead up to the Tatham & O'Sullivan show at the CCA we speak to new Programmer Jamie Kenyon about how he's settling into his new job Read more »| 28 Sep 2010