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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MusicThe Heliocentrics – 13 Degrees of Reality
It’s been a long wait for the follow-up to the Heliocentrics’ 2007 debut Out There, but given the bewildering range of influences and ideas ... Read more »| 25 Apr 2013 -
MusicPere Ubu / Variety Lights @ Mono, 17 April
Seminal is an overused word, but it can be fairly applied to both Pere Ubu and the earlier work of Variety Lights’ David Baker: as the original fr... Read more »| 24 Apr 2013 -
MusicMike Patton – The Place Beyond the Pines OST
From Faith No More to Fantômas, Tomahawk to “pop” project Peeping Tom and of course the gleefully experimental Mr Bungle, Mike Patton&rsquo... Read more »| 24 Apr 2013 -
MusicSax Prodigy: Colin Stetson on Completing a Trilogy
Having worked with everyone from Tom Waits to Bon Iver, virtuoso saxophonist Colin Stetson is forging a bold new path by himself. He talks to The Skinny about his latest album, unorthodox recording setups and the loneliest whale in the world Read more »| 24 Apr 2013 -
Film
Iron Man 3
Iron Man 3 features a Christmas setting, a struggling protagonist caught in strange team-ups, two heroes sneaking into a dock for an action set piece, b... Read more »| 24 Apr 2013 -
Music
Shield Patterns @ The Castle Hotel, Manchester, 17 April
You'd be forgiven for not realising that this is only Shield Patterns' second show: Claire Brentnall's porcelain songs arrive seemingly complete and finalise... Read more »| 24 Apr 2013
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Music
KMFDM – Kunst
Let's get this out of the way – KMFDM have basically become a covers band. The only band they cover is KMFDM. On title track Kunst, they recycle lyrics... Read more »| 24 Apr 2013 -
Music
eagleowl – this silent year
The family of birds known as eagle owls (easily identifiable by their ear tufts) are notoriously elusive, spending most of their time roosting out of sight. ... Read more »| 24 Apr 2013 -
Music
Jacques, a Robin – Statuettes
The seven pieces of brooding chamber-pop that comprise Davide Ariasso’s debut as Jacques, a Robin are all self-contained melancholy vignettes, drawing ... Read more »| 24 Apr 2013 -
Music
It Hugs Back – Recommended Record
It’s easy to see why Matthew Simms, the guitarist, vocalist and songwriter behind London quartet It Hugs Back, was asked to join Wire last year. Despit... Read more »| 24 Apr 2013 -
Music
Daughter @ Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, 22 April
With a predilection for knotty, staccato rhythms and minimal melodies, Daughter strive to avoid standard indie tropes – and recent debut If You Leave s... Read more »| 23 Apr 2013 -
Music
The Antikaroshi – In P.O.P. We Rust
The outsider art of pre-World War II German psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn serves as The Antikaroshi's primary inspiration on this third LP, and – in a si... Read more »| 23 Apr 2013 -
Music
Xiu Xiu + Eugene S. Robinson – Sal Mineo
The free-noise assaults of Oxbow and the discomforting balladry of Xiu Xiu merge, evolve and mutate beyond recognition in this collaborative work by the main... Read more »| 23 Apr 2013 -
Art
James McLardy @ The Royal Standard, until 28 Apr
James McLardy: White Teeth in the Planetarium @ The Royal Standard, Liverpool Read more »| 23 Apr 2013 -
Books
Aye Write! The Road to War, 20 Apr
History made its presence felt in the Mitchell Library’s grand hall as two historians discussed the road to 1914. Charles Emmerson and Christopher Clar... Read more »| 23 Apr 2013