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 Green Wave
Using a vivid collage of animations, interviews and source footage, The Green Wave explores the pro-Mousavi protests that followed Ahmadinejad’s &lsquo... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
Music
DJ Shadow – The Less You Know, The Better
Abandoning the goodtime crunk and tombola-plucked guests of 2007’s die-hard riling The Outsider, Josh Davis returns with a jukebox album, bound to at l... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
ArtResident Easel
RESIDENT: 11 brings together ten of the artists who've taken part in residency schemes across Scotland in the last year for an exhibition in Edinburgh's RSA. We caught up with two of them, Cheryl Field and Erica Eyres, to hear about their new work Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
ArtPatria O Muerte @ Such and Such
Patria O Muerte (Homeland or Death). The subtitle, A Photographic Exhibition of Cuba, explains the seemingly simple premise behind this solo exhibition by Du... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
Music
Stephin Merritt – Obscurities
Stephin Merritt has described curating Obscurities an ‘agonising’ and ‘depressing’ experience, with most candidate tracks decreed obs... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
Music
M83 – Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
M83’s last album, Saturdays = Youth, was their biggest critical and commercial success to date. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, then, is a curveball. W... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011
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Music
Keith Top Of The Pops & His Minor UK Indie Celebrity All-Star Backing Band – Fuck You! I'm Keith Top Of The Pops
Clearly saturated in ramshackle influences such as Half Man Half Biscuit, The Fall and Carter USM (who feature here), Keith TOTP can't quite shake off the co... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
FilmDrive
Danish auteur Nicolas Winding Refn (Pusher trilogy, Valhalla Rising) teams up with Ryan Gosling to produce a taut, ferocious and glossy homage to the seedy c... Read more »| 23 Sep 2011 -
Art
Fruit Tree Template
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Music
Martyn – Ghost People
Dutch producer Martyn's Brainfeeder debut isn't the 'statement' record that some observers might have anticipated, nor does it represent a wholesale paradigm... Read more »| 22 Sep 2011 -
Film
When China Met Africa
Napoleon once said, “China is a sleeping giant but when she wakes she will shake the world.” Capturing this rising titan’s strides into Afr... Read more »| 22 Sep 2011 -
Music
Rustie – Glass Swords
As the comical specificity of labels like ‘aquacrunk’ suggests, it’s generally a futile enterprise to attempt to negotiate the bewilderingl... Read more »| 22 Sep 2011 -
Music
Martin John Henry – The Other Half of Everything
After the disappointing split of De Rosa on the back of their excellent second album Prevention, this first solo offering by frontman Martin John Henry is a ... Read more »| 22 Sep 2011 -
Music
Feist – Metals
Leslie Feist returns with the eagerly anticipated follow up to 2007’s The Reminder which, assisted by an iPod iteration that even today seems quite dat... Read more »| 22 Sep 2011 -
Music
dEUS – Keep You Close
Opinions on dEUS vary wildly. The band effectively divided their career in two when they went on hiatus early last decade only to return with a significantly... Read more »| 22 Sep 2011