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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FilmSomewhere
With its insider depiction of Hollywood life Somewhere will do little to change the minds of those critics who have seen director Sofia Coppola as a movie br... Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
Comedy
Comedy Act of the Month: David Innes
In the vast sea of entrants at last year's Laughing Horse New Act Competition, David Innes shone out. So what's his story? Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
Clubs
Coalition presents AC Slater (Trouble & Bass) @ Sneaky Pete's, 17 April
Having recently hosted a packed out night with Dutch wonder kid Dem Slackers last month, Coalition are back with another heavy hitter on the electro scene: A... Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
MusicThe Goldberg Sisters – The Goldberg Sisters
Adam Goldberg is The Hebrew Hammer, director of I Love Your Work, Julie Delpy’s squeeze in Two Days in Paris – oh, and Chandler Bing’s nutt... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
MusictUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l
How do you follow a debut that fashioned pieces of Dictaphone recordings into a dog-eared – but utterly bewitching – showpiece of low-fidelity po... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
Music
Something Beginning With L – The Listed Building EP
Don't let the opener of London trio Something Beginning With L’s debut EP deter you from further investigation. Angel Sized might prove to be a... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011
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Music
Pat Jordache – Future Songs
Future Songs was first released as a low-quality, self-mastered cassette last summer. It looked destined to remain in such rough form when Pat Jordache&rsquo... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
MusicLe Reno Amps – Appetite
Amongst the more perplexing criticisms to crop up in reviews is ‘X is not life-changing’. How much personal tumult does a listener actually crave... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
Music
Live Music Highlights – April 2011
Attention youths! Emotional guitar rock this way comes courtesy of Aberdeen (via Brighton) three-piece The X-certs. A solid rhythm section, battle-tested alt... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
Art
Omar Zingaro Bhatia: The Myth Maker
Life as an artist is hard, according to artist Omar Zingaro Bhatia. Not convinced, The Skinny looks to catch a glimpse of the man beneath the fiction Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
Music
The Metal Column – April 2011
As we slink into April, rolling news coverage continues to resemble about a dozen simultaneous disaster movies. Whilst continuing to be pummelled unmercifull... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
Film
Oranges and Sunshine
Diplomatic dilemma and political blame-dodging; children being removed from their mothers, dispatched for ‘better lives’ in the colonies only to ... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
Film
Killing Bono
For many there’ll be no more tantalising film title this year than this one based on Neil McCormick’s autobiographical tale of his rivalry with h... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
Music
Josh T. Pearson @ Stereo, 26 March
For a man who has just released one of the saddest records in recent memory, Last of the Country Gentlemen, Josh. T Pearson takes to the stage with remarkabl... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011 -
Music
Orkestra Del Sol – Lung Capacity
There are two ways of setting about summing up Lung Capacity, the latest album from Edinburgh’s brass-steppers extraordinaire. The first would be to fo... Read more »| 30 Mar 2011