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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ClubsLucky Fi
One of LuckyMe's resident DJs Éclair Fifi talks to The Skinny about stolen records, what was cool when she was 15 and her favourite record to drop into sets Read more »| 31 Oct 2011 -
ClubsCom Truise @ Sneaky Pete's, 3 Dec
Some artists make their mark with simple raw energy or bold originality. Others are content to show that they are well schooled in existing forms and a... Read more »| 31 Oct 2011 -
MusicWooden Wand and the Briarwood Virgins – Briarwood
James Jackson Toth, the phenomenally-prolific songwriter oft-known as Wooden Wand, recorded Briarwood in Alabama, and boy, does it show. This is Toth’s... Read more »| 28 Oct 2011 -
Film
The Help
Subtlety can be oft-neglected when portraying the civil rights era cinematically and this latest Hollywood adaptation (based on Kathryn Stockett's bestseller... Read more »| 28 Oct 2011 -
FilmThe Up-and-Comer: Andrew Haigh interview
We spoke to Andrew Haigh about his second feature film Weekend, the year's finest romance, ahead of its premiere at the London Film Festival Read more »| 28 Oct 2011 -
Music
Portugal. The Man – In the Mountain, In the Cloud
In the Mountain, In the Cloud is Portugal. The Man’s sixth album in six years (seventh if you count acoustic miniature Majestic Majesty), and though th... Read more »| 28 Oct 2011
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Music
The Miserable Rich – Miss You In the Days
That the Miserable Rich have an original sound is apparent from the first few sea-shanty notes of Laid Up In Lavender. Third album, Miss You In The Days, ... Read more »| 27 Oct 2011 -
Music
The Metal Column – November 2011
To Mexicans, November is a time to honour the departed. For Accident & Emergency workers, it’s a time to stifle a giggle as another hapless chap is... Read more »| 27 Oct 2011 -
Music
Johnny Foreigner – Johnny Foreigner Vs. Everything
With each album, Johnny Foreigner seem to find it harder and harder to relinquish material: their thirteen-track debut seemed the optimum length for such hig... Read more »| 27 Oct 2011 -
Music
The Fall – Ersatz G.B.
Having created two essential Fall albums in recent times (last year's Your Future Our Clutter and 2008's Imperial Wax Solvent), Mark E Smith's current l... Read more »| 27 Oct 2011 -
Comedy
Steve-O: "Sobriety hasn't made me calm down"
Steve-O, of Jackass fame, tells The Skinny about the move from stunts to stand-up Read more »| 27 Oct 2011 -
Music
Live Music Highlights – November 2011
King Creosote & Kid Canaveral play a slew of dates this month in support of their forthcoming collaborative 7" single. Perky indie-pop vibes and top-draw... Read more »| 27 Oct 2011 -
Books
Killing the Messenger by Christopher Wallace
Mental health as a vote-winning issue might stretch the most overactive of imaginations, but that’s the premise behind Killing The Messenger. ... Read more »| 27 Oct 2011 -
Film
The Conversation
With the News of the World phone tapping scandal fresh in our minds comes the timely re-release of Francis Ford Coppola's study of surveillance, The Con... Read more »| 27 Oct 2011 -
Comedy
Claudia O'Doherty: "Sharks are the opposite of pandas"
This Autumn, Claudia and David O'Doherty (surname coincidental) follow up their 2009 book 100 Facts About Pandas with 100 Facts About Sharks. Claudia tells us why Read more »| 27 Oct 2011