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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ComedyAlexei Sayle: "What I did before – he wasn't me"
Having reinvented comedy in the 80s, Alexei Sayle is making a return to standup. And not a moment too soon... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
ClubsThe House That Lil' Louis Built
Being at the vanguard of house music from its inception was much less pleasure than pain, as DJ, producer, writer and now filmmaker Lil' Louis launches the world's first house music exhibition Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
MusicDog Is Dead – All Our Favourite Stories
Nottingham’s Dog is Dead have been all over this summer’s festival calendar, and with good reason. Debut LPAll Our Favourite Stories sounds ... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
Music
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – Lost Songs
Coming with an overtly political manifesto, Trail of Dead’s eighth studio album Lost Songs fittingly stands as their most direct statement in some time... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
Film
The Arrival of Wang
Not, as one might initially guess, a top-shelf title heralding the debut of a new adult entertainment star, The Arrival of Wang is a low budget sci-fi thrill... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
FilmSome Guy Who Kills People
Everyone wants revenge on the assholes from high school, especially Kevin Boyd (Kevin Corrigan). When he's released after 11 years in the mental institution ... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012
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FilmThe Landlord
In his directorial debut, the great Hal Ashby tackled race relations head on with this fable of gentrification and radical chic. Elgar (Beau Bridges) is a sp... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
Film
Moonrise Kingdom
Like Wes Anderson's previous films, Moonrise Kingdom is located in a place that is at one remove from reality, where he can create a jewel-like world with a ... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
Music
Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind
With so much made of “tricky” second and third albums, not many platitudes exist to explain the challenge faced by those bands with the gumpt... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
Music
Rozi Plain – Joined Sometimes Unjoined
Where Rozi Plain’s debut Inside Over Here was pieced together from various home recordings, the creation of Joined Sometimes Unjoined involved a full b... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
Music
Lukid – Lonely at the Top
Although previous Lukid records have always been beautifully complex and intricate, they have also been fairly easy to place within contemporary electroni... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen – October 2012
Recovering at his Edinburgh home from a nasty chest infection, Dan ‘Withered Hand’ Willson dutifully bunkers down to the healing sounds of October’s single releases Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
Music
Hidden Orchestra: In Plain Sight
Joe Acheson talks to The Skinny about Hidden Orchestra's beautiful new album Archipelago, and the highlights of the Scottish urban music scene today Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
Music
Bat for Lashes – The Haunted Man
The biggest difference between The Haunted Man and 2009's Two Suns is in the presentation – gone are the intricate, ornate, quasi-mystical visual trapp... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
Music
WHY? – Mumps, etc.
Alopecia and Eskimo Snow saw WHY? distance themselves from the hip-hop template that defined their earlier albums as Yoni Wolf’s neurotic drawl playe... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012