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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MusicThe Dälek of Enlightenment
Many players, labels, fads and facets have come and gone since Dälek came to play with rugged beats and dystopian rhymes ten years ago. Will Brooks tells Dave Kerr why they’ve survived. Read more »| 31 Oct 2008 -
MusicDeSalvo: Schizophonic
DeSalvo elicit as much fear as they do admiration from those privy to their catharsis Read more »| 31 Oct 2008 -
Theatre
Suddenly Last Summer
Gareth K Vile wishes for a Scottish accent in a solid double bill. Read more »| 31 Oct 2008 -
Music
Can He Still Kick It?: Five Degrees of Q-Tip
Next Monday (3 Nov, 2008), hip-hop legend Q-Tip (known in some circles as Kamaal the Abstract, but his mum shouts Jonathan Davis out the back door at tea tim... Read more »| 31 Oct 2008 -
Music
Guru's Jazzmatazz @ The Voodoo Rooms, 6 Nov
Bugsy Malone meets Louis Armstrong in a hip-hop odyssey for classy cats Read more »| 31 Oct 2008 -
FilmNovember Film News
Jonathan Melville takes a look at some of the films screening away from the multiplexes this month. Read more »| 31 Oct 2008
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Music
UpCdownC - Embers
The considerable intelligence underlying the songwriting is always apparent Read more »| 31 Oct 2008 -
MusicParts & Labor – Receivers
Brooklyn’s monopoly on harbouring some of the finest contemporary bands on the planet continues with this compelling curveball from noise-punk combo Pa... Read more »| 30 Oct 2008 -
Music
ballboy @ The Mill
They seem to have been about forever, but November sees local indie favourites ballboy make their debut at The Mill with a much anticipated double header. Songwriter in chief Gordon McIntyre spoke to Finbarr Bermingham about recent developments in ballboy's world. Read more »| 30 Oct 2008 -
Music
A Muso’s Top 10: Bonehead
Since his departure from Oasis at the turn of the millennium, the whereabouts of Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs have remained a mystery – ‘somewhere in ... Read more »| 30 Oct 2008 -
Music
Death Cab Have the Facts and They're Voting: Change
The USA is in its biggest economic crisis in years. Hurricanes are literally tearing the country's infrastructure apart. The upcoming election is the most pivotal in years. Oh, and there's a war going on? Finbarr Bermingham finds Death Cab For Cutie's Chris Walla with a head full of steam Read more »| 30 Oct 2008 -
Music
Optimo - Sleepwalk
Don't make the mistake of putting Optimo's new mix CD on for a gym visit or before a night out - it'll slow your treadmill to a halt or stunt the momentum of... Read more »| 30 Oct 2008 -
MusicRed Light Company - Scheme Eugene
Red Light Company prepare for their forthcoming tour with the release of this second single. A slab of earthshaking indie-rock, Scheme Eugene boasts twinkly ... Read more »| 30 Oct 2008 -
Music
Broken Records - Lies
Kurt Cobain once stated that the only two places he would ever live would be Seattle or Edinburgh, a comment that aptly summed up a transatlantic love affair... Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
Music
Jack & Kyle: "The D Will Never Die!"
"It’s important to me that music be glorious. And it’s important to me that whatever we do next be glorious. But will it be a tour? Will it be a movie? Will it be a TV show? Or will it just be me and Kyle talking to you? I don’t know. One thing’s for sure, it shall be glorious." - Jack Black Read more »| 29 Oct 2008