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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MusicHot Ticket of the Month: Electric Frog Live @ SWG3, 11 Sep
Following on from the house/techno-centric gathering taking place on Saturday (headlined by Jeff Mills no less), day two of the Electric Frog Carnival keeps ... Read more »| 31 Aug 2011 -
BooksHot Off The Comics Press: The DC Reboot
Is it really the end of summer? It may very well be, as the sunshine begins to dissipate and the big events come to an end. Of course for one particular publ... Read more »| 31 Aug 2011 -
ComedyThe Bachelor: Competition To Win An All-Expenses Paid Trip To A Sports Star's Crotch
Channel 5 have recently premiered the UK's version of The Bachelor starring Welsh sports star Gavin Henson. Although it might seem like a high-concept series... Read more »| 30 Aug 2011 -
Comedy
MTV Hates Teenwolvery
It all started last week while posting on a Werewolf-Fan-Forum (My second favourite internet pass time next to bombarding NASA with emails relating to Buck R... Read more »| 30 Aug 2011 -
Music
Primus – Green Naugahyde
After some 12 years in absentia from the studio, Primus' return is a surprisingly consistent and rewarding listen. The lyrics are as gratifyingly bizarre as ... Read more »| 30 Aug 2011 -
Film
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Long considered one of the best of the Ealing Comedies, Kind Hearts & Coronets is in many ways atypical of the studio's output. Instead of the us... Read more »| 30 Aug 2011
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Music
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Hysterical
Having leapt to the top of NYC’s heavily stacked indie canon with their eponymous 2005 debut, Brooklyn’s CYHSY gained a fervent following with th... Read more »| 30 Aug 2011 -
MusicMogwai – Earth Division EP
Word on the streets (well, the blogs then) was that this new EP was to herald something a little bit different from Glaswegian heavyweights Mogwai. In some r... Read more »| 30 Aug 2011 -
Film
Weekender
Opening with heavy beats and neon colours, Weekender is a nostalgic look at Manchester's rave culture in the early 90s. One drug-fuelled night, friends Matt ... Read more »| 30 Aug 2011 -
Music
Ipecac Records: “The industry can change, but we will continue to do our thing”
As Ipecac Records prepare to release the long-awaited live DVD debut by the band that launched their catalogue, we chronicle the rise of an inspirational force in independent music Read more »| 29 Aug 2011 -
Art
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Life Sparks
World renowned photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto talks to The Skinny about celebrating the birth and the death of his art form, and why he might be looking for a Nobel Prize Read more »| 29 Aug 2011 -
Clubs
Soma: Business as Usual
As Glasgow label Soma Quality Records celebrate their twentieth year co-founder Dave Clarke gets nostalgic about bin lids being banged in Miami and discovering Daft Punk at Euro Disney Read more »| 29 Aug 2011 -
Music
St. Vincent: How's Annie?
Despite a shonky transatlantic connection, Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent) shares her musings on identity, integrity and industry Read more »| 29 Aug 2011 -
Music
Boom Bip: Me And People
A man of many projects, Boom Bip explains why he really can't seem to manage a 'solo' album Read more »| 29 Aug 2011 -
Theatre
Theatre Venue of the Month: Arches Live
Live Art young team gather with a programme of over 30 performances Read more »| 29 Aug 2011