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 Fighter
Micky Ward (Wahlberg) is a plucky welterweight who’s been given a rough deal in life – his family. His manager/mother Alice (Leo) and his trainer... Read more »| 28 Jan 2011 -
MusicVarious Artists – Woolly Jumpers
This collection from scattershot French label Wool Recordings is nothing if not testing. Its 18 tracks kick off with the sickly Drug Song by Dave Bixby, an o... Read more »| 28 Jan 2011 -
Art
SALONVERT @ Embassy, Until 30 Jan
‘Eclectic’ is an apt description of SALONVERT at the Embassy. Like all members shows, it offers an array of medium and messages. Oil paintings, d... Read more »| 28 Jan 2011 -
Music
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – Tao of the Dead
It's to their credit that, some seventeen years into their career, Trail of Dead still court the image of a relatively cutting-edge act. These days the produ... Read more »| 28 Jan 2011 -
MusicBear Claw – Refuse This Gift
Two bass guitars, one drum kit and an abundance of bloody good ideas: that about sums up the ingredients behind this Steve Albini-recorded Chicago trio. Grit... Read more »| 28 Jan 2011 -
TheatreRob Drummond: Wrestling the Critic
For his latest play, Rob Drummond has experienced blood, sweat, tears and physical injury. And that was just his research... Read more »| 28 Jan 2011
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Music
Tu Fawning: Out Like Bats
Motivated by classical influences and hailing from backgrounds that have little to do with the dark matter of their music, Joe Haege gives a whistle-stop introduction to the enigma of Portland misfits Tu Fawning Read more »| 27 Jan 2011 -
MusicJad Fair – His Name Itself is Music
Jad Fair’s latest is a rambling collection of bewilderingly odd performance poetry, accompanied by intermittent samples and percussion. One set of Dada... Read more »| 27 Jan 2011 -
Art
Hannah James @ Rhubaba
Hannah James’s work functions beneath a guise of opacity. Her oeuvre consists of deliberately bad camera angles and hazy images. The past year of her p... Read more »| 27 Jan 2011 -
Art
Window to the West: The Rediscovery of Highland Art @ City Art Centre
Installing a contemporary art exhibition that self-professedly aims to “rediscover highland art” is certainly a risky strategy. After all, when s... Read more »| 27 Jan 2011 -
Music
Holton’s Opulent Oog – Love in the Mist
The bafflingly-monikered Holton’s Opulent Oog’s penchant for folky psychedelia is allowed loose on record once again, and a thoroughly enjoyable ... Read more »| 27 Jan 2011 -
Books
The Liberation of Celia Kahn by J. David Simons
Set against the background of rent strikes, anti-war sentiment and a revolution brewing in Russia, a young Jewish woman from the Gorbals gains her first tast... Read more »| 27 Jan 2011 -
Music
Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I
Whilst Earth’s latest may sound like no great departure for those casually familiar with their sound, particularly in the last five years, those who ha... Read more »| 27 Jan 2011 -
Music
La Sera – La Sera
Some bands instigate scenes by inspiring others to emulate them; others simply go forth and multiply. The Vivian Girls seem to be inadvertently following the... Read more »| 27 Jan 2011 -
Music
Toddska – Cowboy/Gal From England
The fourth release on Toddla T's Girls Music imprint sees him teaming up with DJ Mag's newly crowned Best of British winner for Best Producer, Roska. Straigh... Read more »| 27 Jan 2011