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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TheatreOne to Watch: Kate Stannard
Kate Stannard, a performer at the NRLA, discusses her own work and the importance of this Live Art platform Read more »| 10 Mar 2010 -
MusicJawbox Revisited: A Special Sweetheart
Post-hardcore forefathers Jawbox re-release their long out-of-print masterpiece this month, Chris Cusack rediscovers its charm and considerable influence. Read more »| 10 Mar 2010 -
MusicJoanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Most musicians will never have to follow an album like Ys. Unwinding across three discs, the epic Have One On Me develops the ideas bubbling within its intim... Read more »| 10 Mar 2010 -
Clubs
Death Disco: Swiss Watch
An EP on Modular, name-checking Erol Alkan as a fan and having SidWho? as a band member. No wonder The Swiss are making joyful, upbeat disco nuggets, they haven't got a care in the world Read more »| 10 Mar 2010 -
Music
Picore @ 13th Note, 4 March
If the lo-fi noodling of last single Pick Up Sticks was your introduction to Super Adventure Club, their presence on such a noisy bill might raise eyebrows. ... Read more »| 09 Mar 2010 -
Music
Broken Bells - Broken Bells
What do you get when you cross the creative force behind a soft-spoken indie/pop/alt country collective and a sonic whiz kid with a list of collaborators as ... Read more »| 09 Mar 2010
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Film
George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead
Number six in Romero’s flesh-eater franchise, this latest opus of the undead is a pretty moribund effort. Things kick off nicely with a group of soldie... Read more »| 09 Mar 2010 -
Theatre
One to catch: Liz Aggiss
Liz Aggiss explains how to have game Read more »| 08 Mar 2010 -
Film
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
In case this particular publishing phenomenon has passed you by, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first book in The Millennium Trilogy – ... Read more »| 07 Mar 2010 -
Music
Cocos Lovers – Johannes
There’s an unquestionably familial feel to their debut album, rendering Johannes more of a songs-around-the-campfire piece Read more »| 06 Mar 2010 -
Theatre
All That Glitters...
The debut of new company Playathome is described as 'a visual and aural experience' Read more »| 05 Mar 2010 -
MusicLaura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
Two years is clearly a long time in Laura Marling’s world. In the interim since Alas, I Cannot Swim, the Hampshire-born nu-folkster has gone from a hon... Read more »| 04 Mar 2010 -
Music
Wooden Shjips - Vol. 2
Turns out that the ghosts of some 60s acid-casualties have possessed a modern day group of San Franciscans in order to have them to play tunes of a forty yea... Read more »| 04 Mar 2010 -
Music
Bonobo - Black Sands
There are a few new strands woven into the tapestry of Simon Green’s Bonobo. The surprises start with Kiara Prelude, whose lush strings drop in... Read more »| 03 Mar 2010 -
Art
Dromos @ Generator Projects
The Generator’s show Dromos takes as its lofty aim the creation of “a New Babylon of discovery” unconstrained by the rigid white cube. Inco... Read more »| 03 Mar 2010