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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MusicCocos Lovers – Johannes
There’s an unquestionably familial feel to their debut album, rendering Johannes more of a songs-around-the-campfire piece Read more »| 06 Mar 2010 -
Theatre
All That Glitters...
The debut of new company Playathome is described as 'a visual and aural experience' Read more »| 05 Mar 2010 -
MusicLaura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
Two years is clearly a long time in Laura Marling’s world. In the interim since Alas, I Cannot Swim, the Hampshire-born nu-folkster has gone from a hon... Read more »| 04 Mar 2010 -
Music
Wooden Shjips - Vol. 2
Turns out that the ghosts of some 60s acid-casualties have possessed a modern day group of San Franciscans in order to have them to play tunes of a forty yea... Read more »| 04 Mar 2010 -
Music
Bonobo - Black Sands
There are a few new strands woven into the tapestry of Simon Green’s Bonobo. The surprises start with Kiara Prelude, whose lush strings drop in... Read more »| 03 Mar 2010 -
Art
Dromos @ Generator Projects
The Generator’s show Dromos takes as its lofty aim the creation of “a New Babylon of discovery” unconstrained by the rigid white cube. Inco... Read more »| 03 Mar 2010
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MusicDamon's Finest Five
Blur – Parklife (1994) Britpop's finest hour, the album that launched a thousand magazine trend pieces about Essex lads behaving badly. So, that's mid-... Read more »| 03 Mar 2010 -
MusicAutechre - Oversteps
Having aggressively tested the limits of loop-based electronic music with the diamond-perfect vignettes of 2008's Quaristice, Oversteps finds Autechre revisi... Read more »| 03 Mar 2010 -
Music
City Dweller, Successful Fella
Damon Albarn has come a long way since Blur and the heights of Britpop. As the third Gorillaz album gets ready to launch, we consider Albarn's development from indie-rock singer to multi-genre auteur. Read more »| 03 Mar 2010 -
Theatre
Beyond the Stance
This sharply contrasting double bill from one of France's most lyrical radical choreographers is a return to the roots of New Territories and a striking example of Catherine Diverres' range and eloquence. Read more »| 03 Mar 2010 -
Music
To Rococo Rot - Speculation
For their eighth album, To Rococo Rot maintain their established aesthetic - impersonal atmosphere, sparingly stocked with isolating electronics and ... Read more »| 03 Mar 2010 -
Theatre
Promises Promises
It should have been a normal day. Instead semi-retired supply teacher Maggie Brodie encounters a highly charged situation when the new girl in her class needs to be exorcised in her classroom. Read more »| 03 Mar 2010 -
Film
March Film Events: 2010
The GFT has outdone itself this month with not one, but two horror double bills – in one weekend! Fans of the video nasties can treat themselves to the... Read more »| 03 Mar 2010 -
Music
Sennen - Age Of Denial
Norwich’s Sennen brush aside the Alan Partidge jokes in favour of grungey shoe-gaze post-rock. From the title track’s fuzzy opening seconds to th... Read more »| 03 Mar 2010 -
Music
The Paradox of Choice: Dillinger Escape Plan Interviewed
As The Dillinger Escape Plan prepare to break loose with album number four this month, guitarist Jeff Tuttle explains how a modern problem forced them to write their most expansive offering to date. Read more »| 02 Mar 2010