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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MusicStrange Daze: Kurt Vile comes of age
Philadelphian troubadour Kurt Vile waxes poetic on rock biographies, giving up drugs, and why loving your couch doesn't make you a slacker Read more »| 04 Apr 2013 -
ArtOpinion: What's your Northwest?
The Skinny is new in the Northwest of England. We spoke to some of those involved in Manchester and Liverpool's arts scenes about place, community, and belonging Read more »| 04 Apr 2013 -
FilmZaytoun
A cross-conflict road movie set during the 1982 Lebanese war, Zaytoun gets plenty right. For one, it looks fantastic, with cinematographer Dan Laustsen lensi... Read more »| 04 Apr 2013 -
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Thursday Till Sunday
Thursday Till Sunday is the story of a family road trip, and we experience much of it from the perspective of 10-year-old Lucía (the excellent Santi A... Read more »| 04 Apr 2013 -
Film
Cop and Robber: Derek Cianfrance on The Place Beyond the Pines
New American drama The Place Beyond the Pines reunites director Derek Cianfrance with his Blue Valentine lead Ryan Gosling. Cianfrance speaks to The Skinny about this epic tale of fate and fatherhood Read more »| 04 Apr 2013 -
MusicAkron/Family – Sub Verses
On seventh album Sub Verses, Akron/Family again manage to sound both formidably outré yet instinctively graspable. No Room is a brooding beast of... Read more »| 04 Apr 2013
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Julie Brook @ Dovecot Studios
Julie Brook is an artist whose work is inextricably linked to the environment that she inhabits; she is drawn toward a physical connection to the landscape t... Read more »| 04 Apr 2013 -
Clubs
Numbers: In Their Prime
Jackmaster and Spencer reflect on a decade of Numbers and introduce the Pleasure Principle Weekender, which launches in Cornwall this month Read more »| 03 Apr 2013 -
Music
Fear And Coping In Oklahoma: The Flaming Lips Unveil The Terror
With brilliant new Flaming Lips album The Terror taking what Embryonic started to bleak new extremes, Wayne Coyne explains why he’s packing away the confetti gun and focusing on survival Read more »| 03 Apr 2013 -
Film
Dark Skies
If Dark Skies’ opening credits didn’t tell you it was produced by the people who brought you the Paranormal Activity franchise and Insidious... Read more »| 03 Apr 2013 -
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Northwest Film Event Highlights – April 2013
This month’s movie highlights include the life and death of JC, a trio of horror double-bills and Pedro Almodóvar’s return to his raunchy 80s roots Read more »| 03 Apr 2013 -
Art
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 3 April
In today's Bulletin: Rachel Maclean, Ilana Halperin and Collective at Edinburgh Art Festival, David Bowie is front-runner for Mercury Prize, Alec Baldwin interviews Thom Yorke, plus new music from Primal Scream, Flaming Lips, BEAK>, The Knife and more Read more »| 03 Apr 2013 -
Music
Sølyst – Lead
As the rhythmic powerhouse between krautrock/electronica/post-rock fusionists Kreidler, Thomas Klein has proved his chops as one of the most accomplished and... Read more »| 03 Apr 2013 -
Music
Neon Neon – Praxis Makes Perfect
Neon Neon’s auspicious debut, Stainless Style, was written in homage to '80s ‘icon’ John DeLorean with the sonic palette to match, but... Read more »| 03 Apr 2013 -
Music
The Thermals – Desperate Ground
The righteous fury of The Thermals continues to burn with intensity some ten years after their debut. The subjects that singer Hutch Harris has taken aim at ... Read more »| 03 Apr 2013