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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ClubsLiza-Marie: A change of heart
We last interviewed Scotland's L-Marie in Sept 2006 for her successful mixtape release. Now step forward Liza-Marie, who talks to Scott Ramage about a change of name and a change in style Read more »| 16 Sep 2008 -
MusicTake A Worm For A Walk Week - The Monroe Transfer
Evil? Yep. Pop? Maybe if you squint. But twee? Never. Read more »| 16 Sep 2008 -
Music
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déja Vu Live
A conversation of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s merits could be the same today as it was in the 70s. Fan 1: “Have you heard that new album by ... Read more »| 16 Sep 2008 -
MusicO'Death - Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin
A brutal and riotous stomp of punk, bluegrass and swing Read more »| 16 Sep 2008 -
Art
Kate Davis @ Sorcha Dallas
A series of framed drawings runs across the two rooms of Sorcha Dallas gallery. In the first, a magazine page ground into gravel by a passing tyre, the word... Read more »| 16 Sep 2008 -
MusicBon Iver - For Emma
Nearly everything about the song For Emma exhibits some degree of plurality: Justin Vernon’s choir of falsettos, multiple guitar overlays, the lyrical ... Read more »| 16 Sep 2008
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Music
David Vandervelde - Waiting For the Sunrise
A top-down Cadillac drive through the breezy West Coast scene of the 70s, and something of a beautiful trip Read more »| 16 Sep 2008 -
FilmFaintheart
Brought to us by the unlikely combination of MySpace and Film4, Faintheart is a moderately entertaining British comedy. Eddie Marsan plays the loveable Richa... Read more »| 16 Sep 2008 -
Music
Meshuggah at The Garage Preview
Nobody likes it when a band cancels, not even the band. So when Meshuggah vocalist Jens Kidman tells a packed Garage how happy the Swedish experi-metal quint... Read more »| 15 Sep 2008 -
Music
Die! Die! Die! @ Captain's Rest, 9 Sep
If I know anything about Kiwi band managers - and having watched an awful lot of Flight of the Conchords, I’d say I'm pretty clued up - it’s that... Read more »| 15 Sep 2008 -
Music
The Faint - Fasciinatiion
While Fasciinatiion presses aural boundaries, it falls short lyrically Read more »| 15 Sep 2008 -
Film
Logan's Run
In this post-apocalyptic society, every aspect of life is cared for by the computer that controls the hermetically sealed cities. There is no work, just play... Read more »| 15 Sep 2008 -
Music
Lukestar - Lake Toba
Apparently well honed in the art of writing a melodic pop-punk tune Read more »| 15 Sep 2008 -
Music
The Black Dog - Detroit Vs Sheffield
The Black Dog re-appear with their third EP from the Radio Scarecrow long player. It’s probably the most high profile section from the project so far, ... Read more »| 15 Sep 2008 -
Music
In the Studio: Jubilee (Part Two)
In the second installment of Aaron North's three part missive from the studio, the singer and guitarist explains how his band achieved the jaw-dropping feat of harnessing the creative energies of Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Liars and Queens of the Stone Age for a track - and then made it a B-side Read more »| 12 Sep 2008