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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MusicImogen Heap @ ABC, 8 Feb
Since hitting her stride with 2005's Speak for Yourself, singer songwriter Imogen Heap has constantly found new and innovative ways to create electronic hype... Read more »| 25 Jan 2010 -
ComedyWrite Here, Write Now
Everyone I know is writing a sitcom, including me. Read more »| 25 Jan 2010 -
Film
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Lee Daniels’ hard-hitting depiction of the life of a Harlem teenager will, without doubt, make a big splash at the Oscars this year. It’s... Read more »| 25 Jan 2010 -
Theatre
Chinese State Circus
The Chinese State Circus have moved from their habitual big top and into the theatre. Read more »| 23 Jan 2010 -
MusicGil Scott-Heron - Me and the Devil
If hip-hop is dead, then Gil Scott-Heron made a pact at the crossroads. With Me and the Devil he succeeds in resurrecting the genre’s gaudy corpse and ... Read more »| 22 Jan 2010 -
MusicComanechi @ Captain's Rest, 18 Jan
The Captain's Rest is compact, cosy and always perfect for its frequent louder gigs. This is especially true when they're packed to the gills like this one, ... Read more »| 22 Jan 2010
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Music
Souls of Mischief - Montezuma's Revenge
Montezuma's Revenge sees Oakland legends Souls of Mischief reunited for an album that won't fail to delight fans of quality hip-hop. Starting out on a defian... Read more »| 22 Jan 2010 -
Music
Danny and the Champions of the World - Streets of Our Time
Either we’ve been caught on a soppy day, or Danny and The Champions of the World make genuinely affecting country-folk. Australian-born, south London l... Read more »| 22 Jan 2010 -
Theatre
Save the Big Red Door
Edinburgh needs venues: The Big Red Door needs to be rescued. What is going on around the corner from one of Edinburgh's most notorious triangles? Read more »| 22 Jan 2010 -
Music
Chew Lips - Unicorn
East London boy-girl-boy trio Chew Lips do a good line in dance-pop, and since forming in early 2008 they've been busy fiddling with the electro template. Th... Read more »| 22 Jan 2010 -
Music
Miike Snow @ Stereo, 4 Feb
Songwriting duo Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg are responsible for some of Madonna and Kylie Minogue’s latest hits. Hell, they even won Britney... Read more »| 22 Jan 2010 -
Music
Nitzer Ebb - Industrial Complex
A lot of underground bands spent the 80s trying and failing to change the world. Nitzer Ebb decided instead to change electronic music – and th... Read more »| 21 Jan 2010 -
Music
Tom McRae - Alphabet of Hurricanes
Mercury-nomination aside, Tom McRae has never enjoyed the critical or commercial profile that might have been expected. Specialising in moody singer-... Read more »| 21 Jan 2010 -
Art
Gary Fabian Miller @ Ingleby Gallery
Admittedly some people love them, but this writer finds nothing more tedious than a room full of photographs. So it was with some trepidation that I stepped ... Read more »| 21 Jan 2010 -
MusicThe Sunshine Underground - Nobody's Coming To Save You
Despite their protests, The Sunshine Underground’s debut Raise The Alarm was pitched somewhere between Franz Ferdinand and The Rapture. In short, bass-... Read more »| 21 Jan 2010