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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FilmAvatar
Having declared himself "The king of the world", James Cameron has now become a creator of worlds. His astonishing epic Avatar takes place on Pandora... Read more »| 16 Dec 2009 -
Music
Depeche Mode @ SECC, 12 Dec
It's been a long time coming and – against all fads and health scares – a sold out Hall 4 marks a hero's return. Since last gracing the Playhouse... Read more »| 15 Dec 2009 -
Art
Martin Boyce: No Reflections @ DCA
Following the success of his commission for the 2009 Venice Bienale, Martin Boyce’s lyrical installation No Reflections arrives in the comparatively pr... Read more »| 15 Dec 2009 -
MusicBenjamin Shaw - I Got the Pox, the Pox is What I Got
In an age when digital technology has made pristine sound quality available to anyone with a decent laptop, going lo-fi has become a statement in itself: I'm... Read more »| 15 Dec 2009 -
Film
A Hard Day's Night
Sam Taylor-Wood discusses why making a biopic of a young John Lennon was no easy feat. Read more »| 15 Dec 2009 -
MusicKrallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
“True” black metal seems to exist in a vacuum, a self-referential singularity that praises tradition over novelty, sameness over innovation. On t... Read more »| 14 Dec 2009
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Music
Malcolm Middleton @ Òran Mór, 10 Dec
The Òran Mór is laid out in seated rows like a Sunday service as tonight's preacher-in-residence, and one of Scotland's prime purveyors... Read more »| 14 Dec 2009 -
Music
Modest Mouse @ ABC, 10 Dec
Modest Mouse may enter to the sound of World War II air sirens whilst spotlights swoop the sold out ABC, but the precision deployment of their openin... Read more »| 14 Dec 2009 -
Music
The Mars Volta @ HMV Picture House, 9 Dec
Tonight’s two-hours of tantric prog makes their slot T in the Park this year seem like a desolatory cry-wank by comparison. Read more »| 11 Dec 2009 -
Music
Broadcast @ Stereo, 9 Dec
Currently operating as a two-piece, tonight Broadcast seriously up the ante in the visual stakes, Trish Keenan seemingly having just escaped from the Jonesto... Read more »| 11 Dec 2009 -
Film
Where the Wild Things Are
The first fifteen minutes of Spike Jonze's new film are possibly the most convincing representation of a child's world ever committed to celluloid, v... Read more »| 11 Dec 2009 -
Music
Meursault - William Henry Miller Pt. 1 & 2
Meursault have had a good 2009: they’ve grown without losing lustre and garnered wide critical praise (including a place in our Scottish albums of the ... Read more »| 11 Dec 2009 -
FilmThe Red Shoes
All the best fairytales have a dark sub-theme and this certainly proves to be the case with the re-release of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1... Read more »| 11 Dec 2009 -
Music
Deer Tick @ The Dulcimer, Manchester, 3 Dec
American pseudo-hillbillies turn suburbian Chorlton into the OK Coral Read more »| 10 Dec 2009 -
Music
When Vultures Circle
From the belly of the rock world's most anticipated meeting of minds since Dio danced with Sabbath, former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones reveals the genesis, the chemistry and the future of Them Crooked Vultures. Read more »| 10 Dec 2009