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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TheatreThe Ushers @ Tron
Raindog, founded around a group of actors with a vision of the plays that they wanted to see, has become more famous in the past decade for their film and te... Read more »| 20 Jan 2011 -
MusicThe Tenebrous Liar – Run Run Run
Anyone who remembers with faint disappointment when the White Stripes and their ilk were the ‘saviours of rock and roll’ would do well to have a ... Read more »| 20 Jan 2011 -
Music
James Blake – James Blake
Having wowed audiences last year with a trio of acclaimed EPs, here Londoner James Blake expands his imaginative soul hybrid over eleven full tracks, and lau... Read more »| 20 Jan 2011 -
Music
The Dirtbombs – Party Store
Whereas Party Store’s predecessor set out to bring new life to the soul classics of the 70s, the Dirtbombs’ latest favours the seminal Detroit te... Read more »| 20 Jan 2011 -
Art
Clusterbomb @ Patriothall Gallery
Notwithstanding the occasional guidebook erroneously, and rather hilariously, describing Stockbridge as ‘bohemian’, it’s probably fair to s... Read more »| 20 Jan 2011 -
Art
Artur Zmijewski: Democracies @ Tramway
Set against a backdrop of nationwide public concern over government funding cuts, and a heightened political engagement within the art world, Artur Zmijewski... Read more »| 19 Jan 2011
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Music
The Chemistry Set – This Day Will Never Happen Again
The Chemistry Set were a band who were all-too-often overlooked, emerging from the late 80s British neo-psychedelia scene with a sound that owed as much to E... Read more »| 19 Jan 2011 -
FilmThe Green Hornet
During the 1930s families would gather round their crackling wireless to hear the radio adventures of a playboy billionaire turned crime fighter, but this wa... Read more »| 19 Jan 2011 -
Music
Deerhoof – Vs Evil
Deerhoof are a band of well-established contradictions, not just in terms of their skillful ability to combine leftfield musical experimentation with a solid... Read more »| 19 Jan 2011 -
Film
The Reef
Sharks are scary. Almost the perfect movie villains. There's no dialogue to worry about, no fiendish plan to come up with, and all they have to do is threate... Read more »| 17 Jan 2011 -
Music
The Go! Team: Rolling Blackouts are Go!
Cult live favourite The Go! Team's Ian Parton talks to us about the band's sample-heavy third LP, Rolling Blackouts Read more »| 17 Jan 2011 -
Music
Rival Schools: Shot After Shot
With lyrics spanning Psychic Kids, sexy Italian actresses, and that primal urge for a can of juice, Walter Schreifels offers a taste of Rival Schools' long-awaited second album Read more »| 17 Jan 2011 -
FilmNEDS
What the fuck are you lookin' at? Did I say you could read my review? Did I? The Non-Educated Delinquent: aggressive, confrontational, relentlessly pressing ... Read more »| 14 Jan 2011 -
Music
Rival Schools: Good Things
Nearly a decade after their debut album broke the mould, New York's Rival Schools return for round two in 2011. Frontman Walter Schreifels and guitarist Ian Love explain a welcome resurrection Read more »| 13 Jan 2011 -
Music
Sore Eros – Know Touching
There’s something altogether endearing about Know Touching; a lo-fi, pretty sort of mess by Connecticut’s Sore Eros. Opener Shake The Walls brist... Read more »| 12 Jan 2011