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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Music
MGMT @ The Beat Club
Neither oracular nor spectacular, but on their Scottish bow, certainly a job well done Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Comedy
The Unquotables!
Why not take a different perspective on these lords and ladies of laugh town? Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Comedy
Braw or Naw
Canadian comic, Stewart Francis casts a critical eye over what's braw and what's naw braw in the general scheme of life. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Music
The Rascals @ Cabaret Voltaire
The Liverpudlian trio manage to pull off the 'it's not at all because of Alex Turner that we're here' look with impressive ease Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Music
The Cave Singers @ ABC
The sound from tonight's cave proves to be decidedly hollow for a group demanding of intimacy Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Music
Nada Surf @ The Garage
Never really escalates beyond 'nice' Read more »| 01 Apr 2008
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Music
Call to Mind @ Nice 'N' Sleazy
Their sound smoulders with the narcotic burn of a classic age Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Music
Band of Horses @ ABC
They can't be everything all the time, but in this moment, Band of Horses are all that matter Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Music
Pete Molinari - A Virtual Landslide
If Richard Hawley can hit the jackpot with his retro crooning, there's no reason why this musical throwback can't break through to the mainstream in a big way Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Music
Angus & Julia Stone - A Book Like This
It is a rare, fragile and beautiful thing that these siblings have created, but be sure to whisper it; any louder and you might scare them away Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
Feadz & Smith N Hack, Numbers, Sub Club, Glasgow, 1 Feb
Combining Moroder-ish basslines, vocodered vocals and electro squelches it reaches a brilliant climax with their own incessant, brass-blasting re-rub of Herbert's Moving Like A Train Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Music
The Cribs - I'm A Realist
The Cribs have hit the ceiling Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Music
The High Wire - Easy
Never quite crossing over into irrational exuberance Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Music
The Loose Kites - The Loose Kites EP
Toe-tapping Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Music
The Whisky Works - In Against Your Own/Belgium
It's predictable right from the start Read more »| 06 Mar 2008