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 Beaches of Agnes
A delightful and idiosyncratic autobiographical documentary from one of cinema’s greatest directors: Agnes Varda. The Beaches of Agnes combines clips f... Read more »| 25 Sep 2009 -
BooksTransition By Iain Banks
Iain Banks’ new book is of a sort that Iain M Banks could have put his name to – because this book, though it has a (sort of) contemporary settin... Read more »| 25 Sep 2009 -
Clubs
Launch Me Into Space
Underground label Solardisco Recordings is making quite a name for itself with a radio show, club night and now releases in association with New York label DFA Read more »| 25 Sep 2009 -
TheatreAn Argument about Sex
An age-old row is set in the contemporary world: Stewart Laing and Pamela Carter get ready to rumble. Read more »| 25 Sep 2009 -
MusicFirst Aid Kit - Hard Believer
With Fleet Foxes and Animal Collective opening the log cabin door for the plaid-shirted flocks of pastoral folk bands, it’s likely First Aid Kit will s... Read more »| 24 Sep 2009 -
Music
Kurt Vile – Childish Prodigy
Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty were referenced in reviews of last year’s compilation Constant Hitmaker, but on the evidence of this record Kurt Vile i... Read more »| 24 Sep 2009
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MusicWojtek Godzisz - Wojtek Godzisz
Wojtek Godzisz’s voice is a curious one – at times it’s gravely with rock-and-roll abandon, at others he’s crooning like ... Read more »| 24 Sep 2009 -
Music
Editors – In This Light and On This Evening
If Ian Curtis hadn’t hanged himself in 1980, and Joy Division had carried on throughout the ensuing decade, they may well have ended up sounding like t... Read more »| 24 Sep 2009 -
Music
Liam Finn: He'll Be Lightning
The Skinny speaks to the heir to the Kiwi musical throne to find out that Peaches Geldof has given rock 'n' roll children a bad name Read more »| 24 Sep 2009 -
Books
Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography by Rodge Glass
Reviews written for the paperback edition of this entertaining biography are pre-empted by the fact that Gray himself has written his own review of the book ... Read more »| 24 Sep 2009 -
Film
Rage by Sally Potter
Ah, critics do love a ‘trend’ or better still a new ‘movement’. The latest buzz phrase to get us critics hopping about and casually d... Read more »| 24 Sep 2009 -
Music
The Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come
John Darnielle's Mountain Goats mine the Bible for inspiration on one of the most heartfelt albums of the year Read more »| 23 Sep 2009 -
Music
Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights
It begins with what sounds like a chainsaw being run though a wah-wah. Within seconds the first of many stomach-churning riffs dive-bombs into your conscious... Read more »| 23 Sep 2009 -
Music
Ancestors - Of Sound Mind
Sporting a press release that compares their experimentalism to that of Peter Brötzmann and Miles Davis whilst equating their musical 'thought crusade' ... Read more »| 23 Sep 2009 -
Music
The Low Miffs & Malcolm Ross - Malcolm Ross & The Low Miffs
There’s a strange twang of sadness on hearing The Low Miffs retreading steps so gleefully Read more »| 23 Sep 2009