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      <title>St Deluxe at SXSW: Part III &#8211; The Scots Invade and Jad Fair Approves</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/2-the-skinny-blog/385-st-deluxe-at-sxsw-part-iii-the-scots-invade-and-jad-fair-approves</link>
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        <![CDATA[We finally got the chance to play a gig and two of them came along at once.
First, we played the Dart International Music showcase, who help bands like us get visas and cheap gear hire if you're out touring. Jad Fair came down to see us and we had a nice chat before the gig, which he later said he really enjoyed. He's got an art exhibit here in a place called Yard Dog that we'll check out befo...]]>
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      <pubDate>2010-03-20T19:32:43+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Martin Kirwan</author>
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      <title>NRLA. Day Three. </title>
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        <![CDATA[Having wrested control back from Charlie Montgomery, I continue to stroke my chin over the definition of Live Art. I know that Iona Kewney is performing in a few hours time, and the excitement is taking hold. I have almost given up expecting anything, merely letting the crowds lead me between events.
I am sitting in a queue. I no longer know what I am going to see inside the performance. A mor...]]>
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      <pubDate>2010-03-19T20:25:23+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Gareth K vile</author>
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      <title>St Deluxe at SXSW: Part II - Hangovers, &#220;ber-burgers  and a Mexican Brekkie</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/2-the-skinny-blog/383-st-deluxe-at-sxsw-part-ii---hangovers-ber-burgers-and-a-mexican-brekkie</link>
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        <![CDATA[Day 2 at SXSW. We wake up about ten in our communal room, hung-over and jetlagged but excited about the day ahead. The sad news about Alex Chilton passing away casts a bit of a shadow. Our show with Big Star was to be the highlight of the trip and we know a lot of our friends in Glasgow will be upset, having met and worked with him before. Looks like the gig on Saturday will now be a tribute to...]]>
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      <pubDate>2010-03-19T12:17:30+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Brian McEwan</author>
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      <title>National Review of Live Art: Wank &amp; Naked People Thursday 18th March edited highlights</title>
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        <![CDATA[ As a veteran cabaret performer and raconteur of some years vintage,  various chums from the hip and arty burlesque scene were recently  encouraging me to "dip a toe" in the "live art genre". &nbsp;I actually don't  have any toes, but that's a story for another day. "Charlie", they said  over a brandy at the Art Club, "you'll love it, honest, it's not wanky  at all - it's like burlesque but wit...]]>
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      <pubDate>2010-03-19T12:08:19+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Charles Montgomery, Live Art ex-virgin</author>
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      <title>National Review, Day Two</title>
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        <![CDATA[It&rsquo;s day two, and the ugly sight of a performance critic boring performers with his dogmatic opinions is repeatedly noted in The CCA and Arches bar. I catch up with Amber Hickey and Stephanie Black, two of the stars of last week&rsquo;s Into The New, and tell them where their art ought to be heading. By nine in the evening, I&rsquo;ve have deconstructed Derrida, expressed my beliefs about...]]>
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      <pubDate>2010-03-19T12:03:01+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Gareth K Vile</author>
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      <title>The Dullest Blog: The Magners Glasgow Comedy Festival edition</title>
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        <![CDATA[I&rsquo;ve never been one to be thrilled about the onset of Spring. I&rsquo;ve always felt that it undermined the validity of my misanthropic perspective on life.&nbsp; Say what you like about winter, you fucking know where you are with it; cold, dark, uncomfortable &ndash; you might not like it but it doesn&rsquo;t lie to you. Not like that bastard Spring, with all its cheery colours and breez...]]>
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      <pubDate>2010-03-18T21:30:23+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Keir McAllister</author>
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      <title>National Review: Day One</title>
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        <![CDATA[It&rsquo;s a tough job serving two muses, especially when they&rsquo;ve both been denied funding from the Arts Council of Olympus for three thousand years. And they rarely agree on anything: one is all artifice, surface and humour; the other is abstract, intellectual and serious.&nbsp; I am split between cabaret and live art, and the clamour for my attention is exhausting me.
Fortunately, The ...]]>
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      <pubDate>2010-03-18T15:22:59+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Gareth K Vile</author>
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      <title>St Deluxe at SXSW: Part I - Westbound and Down</title>
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        <![CDATA[Our first day in Austin has been a rollercoaster to say the least. We were lucky enough to be given a place to stay thanks to the SXSW housing program. The people that are putting us up for the duration come to meet us at the airport; they give us a ride to this co-op building shared by 20 college students, half of which are back home visiting family and friends for spring break.
We got oursel...]]>
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      <pubDate>2010-03-18T14:58:38+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Martin Kirwan</author>
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      <title>When Werner met Nicolas</title>
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        <![CDATA[Getting shot on TV has been a good career move for Werner Herzog. The video clip of the incident, which occurred while being interviewed by Mark Kermode for The Culture Show, has become Youtube&rsquo;s Zapruder film with over a million hits. The shooting is invariably mentioned in every profile of the director but there is something belittling about this &ndash; a career that has seen Herzog de...]]>
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      <pubDate>2010-03-15T22:50:16+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Keir Roper-Caldbeck</author>
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      <title>The Dullest Blog: Springtime Blog</title>
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        <![CDATA[Every year since I can remember having a full compliment of canines, I have given up sweeties for Lent. This year I gave up Lent &ndash; the unintended consequence of my sacrifice is that now I have to eat sweets, even when I don't want to. Especially when I don't want to. But even though I'm permanently nauseous and my skin looks like the final days of the Exxon Valdez, I console myself with t...]]>
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      <pubDate>2010-03-15T21:29:13+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Jeff O'Boyle</author>
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      <title>Four Deaths and a stone circle</title>
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        <![CDATA[Since my understanding of life is that wisdom is the gradual recognition of how utterly fucked I am, and that a series of traumas have taught me the moments of innocence that doomed to me to heart-break and, eventually, cynicism, it is no surprise that I am entranced by the doomy contours of Live Art and experimental theatre. Via Negativa, with promotional photographs that featured performers s...]]>
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      <pubDate>2010-03-12T08:58:08+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Gareth Vile</author>
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      <title>The Dullest Blog: The Magners Glasgow Comedy Festival edition!</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/9-the-dullest-blog/374-the-dullest-blog-the-magners-glasgow-comedy-festival-edition</link>
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        <![CDATA[The Magners Glasgow Comedy Festival is upon us!&nbsp; To join in with the spirit, The Skinny will be bringing you a selection of Dullest Blogs on the subject of Springtime, all sorts of crazy days of the week.
&nbsp;
Springtime means different things to different people. For my relatives on a farm in rural Canada, spring is when the snow melts and floods them.
I&rsquo;ve never been keen on v...]]>
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      <pubDate>2010-03-12T08:51:56+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Teddy</author>
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      <title>The Death of 6 Music</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/2-the-skinny-blog/373-the-death-of-6-music</link>
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        <![CDATA[&ldquo;The problem with 6 Music is&hellip; It&rsquo;s not a station that makes much sense from a value for money point of view&rdquo; said the BBC&rsquo;s Director General Mark Thompson earlier this week, as he announced live on television the planned closure of the 6 music radio station, a station that, according to its own website &ldquo;brings together the cutting edge music of today.&rdquo;...]]>
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      <pubDate>2010-03-04T11:25:39+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>R. J. Gallagher</author>
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      <title>The French for Boring</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/1-the-film-blog/372-the-french-for-boring</link>
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        <![CDATA[I started writing this blog entry last week full of enthusiasm for all the avant-garde and experimental films that I&rsquo;d discovered online. It was exciting to find that these rare films, which previously could only be seen at amateur screenings where watching the celluloid catch in the gate and melt was one of the attractions, were now available to anyone with an Internet connection.
I was...]]>
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      <pubDate>2010-03-03T16:32:05+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Keir Roper-Caldbeck</author>
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      <title>TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly </title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/2-the-skinny-blog/371-tv-blog-the-best-and-worst-of-the-weeks-telly</link>
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        <![CDATA[I&rsquo;m one of those people who tried really hard to hate Skins, (Thursdays, 10pm, E4) the teen drama that arrived in a hail of sex, drugs &amp; vomit in 2007 and which is currently airing its 4th series. My hostility stemmed from the experiences of my teenage years being so far removed from the hedonism onscreen; while the Skins cast are out clubbing and shagging every night, me and my frien...]]>
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      <pubDate>2010-03-03T14:56:22+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Chris Lindsay</author>
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      <title>On theatre blogging</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/2-the-skinny-blog/370-on-theatre-blogging</link>
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        <![CDATA[I am feeling a little out of step with the world this week. It might just be the absinthe, or the continued evolution of a romantic sensibility I can&rsquo;t quite name, but I have been worried by my response to plays that have been receiving positive reviews.&nbsp; My usual misanthropy, which reflects itself in the fascination I hold for my own behaviour while other critics are paying attentio...]]>
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      <pubDate>2010-03-03T14:50:07+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Gareth Vile</author>
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      <title>Girls Girls Glas(s)</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/2-the-skinny-blog/369-girls-girls-glass</link>
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        <![CDATA[If, as Luther Blisset suggests in Death of Hermeneutics, performance is merely the mirror in which the reviewer sees themselves, I am not sure that I like the unshaven, dishevelled reflection that is staring back. I woke up with this morning with helium-filled balloons on my ceiling, an unidentifiable liquid in a glass by my head and a memory of sitting on the floor in the GFT bar, surrounded b...]]>
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      <pubDate>2010-02-23T10:20:54+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Gareth Vile</author>
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      <title>Ballet and The National Review of Live Art</title>
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        <![CDATA[Back in the early twentieth century, a conflux of anarchic aesthetes and free thinkers challenged the foundations of western high art. Dada, the surrealists, even the early cinematographers challenged realism, while contemporary choreographers threw off the restrictions of ballet, seeking a new expressiveness.
By the end of the twentieth century, ballet had taken a firm revenge on its wayward ...]]>
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      <pubDate>2010-02-18T10:39:05+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Gareth Vile</author>
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      <title>Performing the VD weekend blues</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/2-the-skinny-blog/367-performing-the-vd-weekend-blues</link>
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        <![CDATA[I kicked off the VD blues with The Zeros Keep Going, a timely meditation on the social impact of hardcore pornography. Rather like the public debate, the two sides of the argument - the porn industry and the feminist objectors - never managed to speak on common ground. The bursts of feminist rage struck against the pale faces of Viagra addicted macho thugs and na&iuml;ve glamour girls. Featurin...]]>
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      <pubDate>2010-02-18T09:58:35+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Gareth Vile</author>
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      <title>Speed dating, absinthe and theatre</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/2-the-skinny-blog/366-speed-dating-absinthe-and-theatre</link>
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        <![CDATA[An evening of speed dating turned out to be an excellent rehearsal for&nbsp;Etiquette. Part of The Arches&rsquo; off site programme, Etiquette sits two strangers opposite one another, and instructs them in their conversation, through a pre-recorded script. Like speed dating, it forces an immediate and false intimacy, the structure of the experience guiding the man and woman through a series of ...]]>
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      <pubDate>2010-02-11T13:47:32+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Gareth Vile</author>
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      <title>TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly</title>
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        <![CDATA[Duff! Duff! Duff-duff-duff-duff-duff-duff! Is there any other TV theme as instantly recognisable as the EastEnders drum roll? When something plays in your living room several times a week it&rsquo;s no wonder it sounds inherently wrong when messed with - like when classic rock &lsquo;n&rsquo; roll numbers are murdered as Europop (I&rsquo;m looking at you DJ &Ouml;tzi). While it&rsquo;s not just...]]>
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      <pubDate>2010-02-10T15:00:36+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Chris Lindsay</author>
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      <title>A performance-themed Valentine's Day</title>
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        <![CDATA[Given that my idea of an appropriate first date is either some demonic clowning from Al Seed or a quick burst of Sarah Kane&rsquo;s Crave (sample line: &ldquo;What ties me to you is guilt&rdquo;), it is no surprise that I&rsquo;ll be spending this Valentine&rsquo;s Day with a bottle of absinthe, bitter memories and an audio book of Paradise Lost.
In the meantime, more well-adjusted people migh...]]>
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      <pubDate>2010-02-08T20:40:26+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Gareth Vile</author>
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      <title>A Perfect World</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/1-the-film-blog/361-a-perfect-world</link>
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        <![CDATA[There are few things more galling in life than seeing a person, already immoderately successful in their chosen field, try something new and make a success of it. This has become a depressingly common experience in the movies. First it was the phenomenon of the artist-turned-director, with Steve McQueen and Sam Taylor-Wood. Now it is the unlikely spectacle of the fashion-designer-turned-directo...]]>
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      <pubDate>2010-02-08T13:35:42+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Keir Roper-Caldbeck</author>
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      <title>A Skinny Take: Chasing the zeitgeist</title>
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        <![CDATA[When the legendary CBGB&rsquo;s club in New York was closed down in 2006 because owner Hilly Kristal could no longer afford to pay its rent, there was a bitter taste left in the mouths of all concerned.&nbsp; A club that nurtured the talents of so many great artists &ndash; from Blondie to The Ramones &ndash; tossed aside by a landlord who chose to condemn rather than save a cultural Mecca in t...]]>
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      <pubDate>2010-02-05T17:00:52+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>R. J. Gallagher</author>
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      <title>Misery Inc.</title>
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        <![CDATA[You know how it is. Browsing absent-mindedly along the shelves in a bookshop you find yourself staring, open mouthed, at rows of glossy books covered with pictures of 1950s underwear and words like &ldquo;fetish&rdquo;. You've strayed into the Erotica section again. Or perhaps it's the lurid, badly designed covers and tabloid titles of True Crime. Not really the impression you wanted to give. A...]]>
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      <pubDate>2010-02-01T18:04:18+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Keir Roper-Caldbeck</author>
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