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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Film
A Departure For Scorsese?
You are Martin Scorcese. You have never won an Oscar... Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
Buy Tickets Now: Wolfmother
Ears will bleed! Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
The Vivians - Bannermans, September 18
prepare for ""the eargasm of your lives."" Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
The Rapture: Too Esoteric For A Saturday Night
Whoo! Alright! Yeah… Uh Huh Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
The Blockheads @ The Liquid Room
Tonight is more an effusive exorcism of yesteryear's ghosts. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
Liam Frost and the Slowdown Family @ King Tut's
We may be witnessing the birth of a new genre: hardcore folk. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006
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Music
The Early Years - The Early Years
may just be the ideal contemporary soundtrack to your next comedown Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Clubs
East Coast Aesthetics: Penpushers, Swingingman Records, Sweet E & ODC Get Serious
If we all moved to Hawaii we would make a soft rock album or a funky house album... The Brain, Penpushers Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Clubs
Drummed and Bassed (Column)
free entry to anyone who comes dressed as Tarzan Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
Jamie T - If You've Got the Money
what sets Jamie T apart is his sly lyrics and delivery Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
Dan Sartain - Replacement Man
Sartain sounds as if he's been raised in spit 'n sawdust saloons among stony-paced gunslingers Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
The Scare @ The Barfly
In a night of music courtesy of the southern hemisphere, it's the Kiwis who come out on top Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
T on the Fringe: Paolo Nutini @ The Liquid Room
I cannot but somehow feel that he would better in his parent's chippy, free from all the trappings of fame and glamour. He's just too nice. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
Red Sparowes / Made out of Babies / Battle of Mice - Triad
Outwith Julie Xmas's utterly essential performance, the music is standard Neurot affair. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
James Yorkston - The Year of the Leopard
an intimate warmth and calm that can't help but be contagious Read more »| 13 Oct 2006