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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FilmYour Highness
It’s a shame that boys will be boys, because it’s the relentless stream of smutty schoolboy jokes that threaten to spoil what’s actually a ... Read more »| 12 Apr 2011 -
MusicKode9 & The Spaceape: Under the Black Sun
Five years on from their landmark debut, Kode 9 and The Spaceape return to reinvent bass music once more with the epic follow-up, Black Sun. Welcome to their world... Read more »| 11 Apr 2011 -
MusicNick Hudson and the Academy of Sun – My Antique Son
Nick Hudson’s audial explorations over the past few years have garnered him an impressive collection of admirers, from Meredith Monk to Current 93&rsqu... Read more »| 11 Apr 2011 -
Film
Blood Simple
In this re-make of the Coen brothers' tourniquet-tight thriller about what happens to best laid plans, sweaty Texas is swapped for the scorched deserts of an... Read more »| 11 Apr 2011 -
Film
Little White Lies
Guillaume Canet’s follow-up to Tell No One is a change of pace, from intense thriller to ensemble comedy-drama, but it's no less compelling. Starring F... Read more »| 11 Apr 2011 -
Music
Adam Goldberg, Dilettante?
dil·et·tante?/?dili?tänt/ –noun 1. a person who studies an art or subject merely for amusement; dabbler. 2. a lover of an art or science. 3. Adam Goldberg? Read more »| 08 Apr 2011
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Music
Trembling Bells' Alex Neilson: "I’d probably be a professional footballer if it wasn’t for Trout Mask Replica"
With Trembling Bells’ third album on the way, drummer Alex Neilson is all too happy to debate the finer points of folk music Read more »| 08 Apr 2011 -
ComedyPappy's: All Business @ The Stand, 6 April
Value for money is important in these tough economic times, so it’s kind of Pappy’s to treat us to two shows for the price of one tonight. The fi... Read more »| 08 Apr 2011 -
Music
The Great Nostalgic – Hope We Live Like We Promised
Like a poorly preserved Elvis Costello action figure, The Great Nostalgic have a seventies charm that by now is starting to smell a bit off, and they bear th... Read more »| 08 Apr 2011 -
Comedy
Tim Minchin: Storm in a Trumpet
His debut musical has got a West End transfer, a film of one of his songs is out right now now, and he’s coming to Scotland next week with his epic show Tim Minchin and His Orchestra Tim Minchin’s come a long way for a wee lad from Perth (the other one) Read more »| 08 Apr 2011 -
Music
The Proposition: Rebecca Frankenstein Black: or The Post-Modern Prometheus
The most ghastly thing about Friday is not the hideous auto-tuning, the stupefying lyrics or the gormless rap, it's the fact that it reminds us what a bunch of slack-jawed imbeciles we actually are Read more »| 07 Apr 2011 -
Music
Record Store Day 2011
With downloads and tax-dodging web-retailers gobbling up sales, the humble record store’s obituary had been penned many times by cultural forecasters a... Read more »| 07 Apr 2011 -
Film
Kelly Reichardt: Redefining The Western
Wendy and Lucy director Kelly Reichardt talks to The Skinny about her new film Meek's Cutoff Read more »| 07 Apr 2011 -
Music
The Donkeys – Born With Stripes
I’m no zoologist, but a Donkey Born with Stripes would imply zebra parentage, making these San Diegans zedonks. If we instead delineate their genus fro... Read more »| 07 Apr 2011 -
Music
Kyuss Lives @ O2 ABC, 4 April
‘Legendary’ is an overused epithet in music journalism, but in the case of Californian stoner-rock pioneers Kyuss, it feels entirely warranted. S... Read more »| 07 Apr 2011