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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FilmSummer Preview: Blockbusters v Art-house
We preview a summer of films, pitting the art-house against the event movie using a scientifically proven top trumps system that rates director kudos, fan anticipation, funniness, sexiness and that quintessential summer movie ingredient, explodiness Read more »| 03 May 2012 -
Film
Lucky Luke
Though he’s been gun-slinging since the forties, comic-strip cowboy Lucky Luke’s golden age came under the auspices of Asterix creator René... Read more »| 03 May 2012 -
BooksMarch Was Made of Yarn by Various
On March 11 2011, Japan’s north-east coast was hit by a massive earthquake, followed minutes later by a fifty-foot tsunami. The subsequent meltdown at ... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
BooksThe Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
Anais Hendricks is a fifteen year old orphan who is taken to the Panopticion, a home for chronic young offenders, after she is suspected of putting a policew... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
Music
Death Grips: “There's a lot of recycling and destruction in the making of our music”
A full-frontal assault on the musical culture of 2012, Death Grips might just be the most important band to arrive so far this century. Zach Hill discusses raw reality, release and borrowing Simon Cowell's printer Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
Theatre
The Captain’s Collection
With its evocative Celtic strains and poetic prose, the opening scenes from Dogstar’s revival of their first production, The Captain’s Colle... Read more »| 02 May 2012
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TheatreStanding Stanes – Besieging Malmaison
Tina Finch explains how Siege Perilous theatre company teamed up with Malmaison to recreate a lost Scottish play Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
Theatre
Hope Springs Arabian @ Oràn Mór
Working in conjunction with two separate theatres (Dundee Rep and Perth Theatre) would be ambitious enough for any company, but then the people behind A Pl... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
MusicBang On! – [sic]
The debut from 21-year-old Liverpudlian rapper Elliott Egerton expresses the frustrations, tensions and mundanity of inner-city poverty with disarming dire... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
Music
Geoff Barrow talks DROKK: "2000AD is as important to me as Public Enemy"
Portishead's Geoff Barrow gives us the lowdown on his new Judge Dredd-inspired synth project, DROKK. Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
Music
Taffy – Caramel Sunset
In the UK, Britpop’s spectre – not Pulp or Blur, but the bread and butter bands that once padded out Shine compilations – has kept a penite... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
Music
Admiral Fallow – Tree Bursts In Snow
Admiral Fallow are a success story to warm the most jaded of hearts, their measured ascent possessing the kind of slow-burn, grass-roots momentum that can&... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
Film
Movie Løve: Director Mia Hansen-Løve in interview
May sees the release of Goodbye First Love, the third film from Mia Hansen-Løve. The Skinny sat down with the talented director to discuss how she caught the filmmaking bug and her era-spanning narratives Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
Music
Divorce Album Fundraiser @ The Old Hairdressers, 11 May
Recording music does not come cheaply, kids. Aye, so Lou Barlow got away with making albums on a shoestring with his four track in the eighties, but times (a... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
Music
Scottish Wind, Scottish Rain: Frightened Rabbit's Highland Tour
As Scott Hutchison and co approach recording their fourth album, their first for a major label, the band opted for the road less travelled to preview new material. The Skinny caught up with them for a few drams on their Highland excursion Read more »| 02 May 2012