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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MusicRed Light Company – Fine Fascination
Red Light Company make no bones about the fact that they’re here “to make a huge record”. And with their debut they have fulfilled this aim... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
Clubs
Nevereverlandpresent Afrika Bambaataa @ The Arches, 13 Mar
Apologies, I was under the impression that there was some kind of economic crisis gong on and that our culture of gross, tasteless excess would have to stop.... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
MusicBronto Skylift - Eagle/Falcon
What with the fashionable rise of happy-clappy dross à la the Knack-pilfering Ting Tings in recent times, it’s not often a two-piece like Bronto... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
MusicRush - Retrospective III
It's Rush, for goodness' sake Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
ClubsSound of the Police
Chris Ratcliffe investigates the Metropolitan Police Department's new powers that are smothering music events Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
Clubs
Evolution of the Subcity Party
Rosie Davies takes a look at the history of Subcity events as they prepare to host their most exciting guest yet Read more »| 25 Feb 2009
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Music
Wavves - So Bored
Music fans of a certain age might remember this guy from the nineties called Beck. He made fuzzy, lo-fi, lazy-sounding stoner anthems that hid a wealth of id... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
Music
Parts & Labor @ Captain’s Rest, 16 Feb
There’s doing it yourself and there’s doing it before the head settles on a bystander’s Guinness; tonight Brooklyn quartet Parts & Labo... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
Music
The Long Lost - The Long Lost
The romantic ideals that hippies espouse are often more appealing than hippies themselves; free love and flower power all sound fine in principle, but they'r... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
Theatre
The Mystery of Irma Vep @ The Lyceum Theatre
Even a solid comic duo can't pull Irma back from the brink in The Lyceum's latest production. Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
Music
First Aid Kit @ The Enterprise, London, 23 Feb
First Aid Kit are a pair of Swedish sisters aged 15 and 18. They play enigmatic, stripped-down folk, and much has been made of their seemingly world-weary ta... Read more »| 24 Feb 2009 -
Music
Dirty Projectors @ ABC, 29 Mar
David Byrne-endorsed Dirty Projectors encompass many of the eclectic influences into their music that Jeff Buckley did. Elements of jazz and avant-garde are ... Read more »| 24 Feb 2009 -
Music
De Rosa - Prevention
The Lanarkshire lads are comfortable where they are, no longer subservient to ‘obvious single’ pretensions. Read more »| 24 Feb 2009 -
Music
Lindsay Sugden & The Storm - Lindsay Sugden & The Storm EP
At times rattly and percussive, at others, delicate and intricate - and that only accounts for Lindsay Sugden’s guitar playing which blends distinctly ... Read more »| 24 Feb 2009 -
Film
Bronson
A prison warden looks straight at Charlie Bronson, and calmly informs him “you’re ridiculous”. In truth, Bronson ought to be just another c... Read more »| 24 Feb 2009