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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MusicGruff Rhys – Hotel Shampoo
A career of over fifteen years recording music has provided irrefutable evidence of one thing – Gruff Rhys knows his way around a tune, and Hotel Shamp... Read more »| 25 Jan 2011 -
MusicThe Streets – Computers and Blues
The Streets’ Mike Skinner has been on a downer ever since releasing Original Pirate Material in 2002, but then no-one bothered. His melancholic parable... Read more »| 25 Jan 2011 -
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Zoey Van Goey – Propeller Versus Wings
Expanded to a four-piece since debut The Cage Was Unlocked All Along, Zoey Van Goey’s launch Propeller Versus Wings with the atypically serious Mountai... Read more »| 25 Jan 2011 -
MusicConquering Animal Sound – Kammerspiel
The sight of woodland shards in the artwork, and the sound of Maschine trickling into life via stuttering bells, syncopated handclaps and double-tracked voca... Read more »| 25 Jan 2011 -
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Tom Tom Club – Genius Of Live
Any discussion of Tom Tom Club is inevitably presaged by acknowledging that the band were essentially a side-project of Talking Heads, having been formed dur... Read more »| 25 Jan 2011 -
MusicThe Tall Ships – On Tariffs and Discovery
The Tall Ships sophomore album sees the US three-piece continue to hone their indie-art-rock compositions with explorative arrangements and understated produ... Read more »| 24 Jan 2011
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Film
The Town
In his directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone, Ben Affleck returned to the working class milieu of his breakthrough role in Good Will Hunting (which he co-wrote w... Read more »| 24 Jan 2011 -
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Man Hunt
Tired of four-legged prey, legendary hunter Captain Thorndike (Walter Pidgeon) sets his sights on bigger game, sneaking behind German lines to acquire Hitler... Read more »| 24 Jan 2011 -
TheatreMove @ ABC
Tony Mills is not only one of the hardest working dancers in Scotland, he is almost one of the most restless. When not painting his body white for some Butoh... Read more »| 23 Jan 2011 -
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Emily Jane White – Ode To Sentience
Releasing her third album in as many years, Californian Emily Jane White’s prolific nature is matched only by her strict adherence to the purist folk c... Read more »| 21 Jan 2011 -
Film
The Switch
“It's how everybody's doing it these days.” So says Debbie (Lewis) of the 'I'm getting pregnant party' during which her friend Kassie (Aniston) w... Read more »| 21 Jan 2011 -
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Chapel Club – Palace
On their debut, London-based five-piece Chapel Club offer up a remarkably accomplished take on the kind of stadium rock-meets-Joy Division sound familiar to ... Read more »| 21 Jan 2011 -
Theatre
The Ushers @ Tron
Raindog, founded around a group of actors with a vision of the plays that they wanted to see, has become more famous in the past decade for their film and te... Read more »| 20 Jan 2011 -
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The Tenebrous Liar – Run Run Run
Anyone who remembers with faint disappointment when the White Stripes and their ilk were the ‘saviours of rock and roll’ would do well to have a ... Read more »| 20 Jan 2011 -
Music
James Blake – James Blake
Having wowed audiences last year with a trio of acclaimed EPs, here Londoner James Blake expands his imaginative soul hybrid over eleven full tracks, and lau... Read more »| 20 Jan 2011