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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MusicdBass – Garden EP
Coming off a spate of gigs around the UK, dBass release their Garden EP, and if the 3 tracks don't quite capture the muscular risk-taking of their live attac... Read more »| 21 Oct 2010 -
MusicThe National @ O2 Academy, 26 Nov
Returning to the status of critical darlings without ever quite returning to the same well, The National have built a reputation of being one of the most sol... Read more »| 21 Oct 2010 -
Film
The Collector
A small time burglar gets more than he bargained for when he breaks into a house and discovers a bloodthirsty lunatic already preying on the defenceless fami... Read more »| 21 Oct 2010 -
Film
Predators
Predators opens with a bang. Or, more accurately, a whoosh. Our hero (Adrien Brody) wakes to find himself plummeting through the air towards the ground. A pa... Read more »| 21 Oct 2010 -
FilmTintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece
This live-action Tintin adventure from 1961, which sees the boy reporter and Captain Haddock on the trail of lost gold in the Aegean, gets so many details ri... Read more »| 20 Oct 2010 -
Music
DOOM @ The Arches, 20 Oct
DOOM has released some of the most fascinating hip-hop albums of the new millennium and created a lexicon that transcends the standard of most contemporary e... Read more »| 20 Oct 2010
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Music
The Fruit Tree Foundation – First Edition
It’s tempting to be abnormally lenient towards a record borne of a good cause, with lyrical ideas that deal with difficult, easily overwrought themes o... Read more »| 19 Oct 2010 -
Clubs
Mim Suleiman @ Huntleys and Palmers Audio Club
Since their parties commenced in December 2007, Huntleys and Palmers Audio Club have pursued a daring booking policy, promoting acts as diverse as Silver App... Read more »| 19 Oct 2010 -
ArtGet your designs into production
We hear about a lot of opportunities here at The Skinny, but this one particularly caught our eye, perhaps because it involves slicing through rubber and met... Read more »| 19 Oct 2010 -
Music
Killing Joke @ HMV Picture House, 15 Oct
Revered for their role in rearranging rock’s ever-changing template at least twice – from post-punk frontrunners to proto-industrial metal pionee... Read more »| 18 Oct 2010 -
Theatre
IETM
A Cornucopia of Contemporary Caledonian Creativity Read more »| 18 Oct 2010 -
Music
ESG - Dance to the Best of ESG
South Bronx's ESG (Emerald Sappire and Gold) are three street-smart sisters by the name of Scroggins who introduced punks' DIY ethic into dance music way bac... Read more »| 18 Oct 2010 -
Music
Teebs – Ardour
Los Angeles has never been more protean in dance circles than it is right now and here is Teebs to make the most of the scene's 'Seattle moment'. A collabora... Read more »| 18 Oct 2010 -
Art
Alex Hetherington @ Embassy
There’s nothing new under the sun. This seems to be the underlying principle behind Alex Hetherington’s work. He describes his art not without fi... Read more »| 18 Oct 2010 -
Music
KRS-One @ The Liquid Room, 7 Oct
“Waste no time,” KRS-One pleads of his DJ in-between classics. Aware that this boom-bap battle mass falls at the mercy of The Liquid Room's infam... Read more »| 15 Oct 2010