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      <title>Movie stars, Hollyoaks babes and fighting champs get in on the game</title>
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        <![CDATA[Occassionally, video games feature a top notch actor or two -- folks willing to lend their gravitas to a pixelated role or vocal performance. Never before though, have so many 'stars' graced a game as the new Command &amp; Conquer Red Alert 3 title hitting shelves this week ('cept Vice City, maybe? - ed).Whilst none of these are quite as cool as having Liam Neeson as your dad (Fallout 3), this ...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-11-14T13:18:20+00:00</pubDate>
      <author>Josh Wilson</author>
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      <title>September theatre</title>
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        <![CDATA[In last month&rsquo;s editorial, I suggested that while performance might not be damaging to the social structure, it is, at best, morally neutral. This position could be seen to undermine the purpose of art - after all, if it is just pretty shapes and sounds and movements, how can it be taken seriously? If it makes no impact, what's the point?
Fortunately, many performers disagree with me, an...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-09-24T13:01:21+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Gareth K Vile</author>
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      <title>I kissed plenty of girls but I never thought to capitalise on it</title>
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        <![CDATA[In case you&rsquo;re not familiar yet with Katy Perry&rsquo;s I Kissed A Girl, here&rsquo;s a quick summary of the lyrics: &ldquo;I kissed a girl and it was nice, but don&rsquo;t worry, I have a boyfriend, so it&rsquo;s not like there&rsquo;s a major lifestyle change on the cards here, and I hope he won&rsquo;t mind but of course he won&rsquo;t because it&rsquo;s not like kissing girls really c...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-09-22T10:28:12+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Nine</author>
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      <title>Connect 2008 Episode XII: The Epilogue</title>
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        <![CDATA[Hydro Connect is officially over for another year. The revellers have gone home to warm showers and washing machines, leaving the event staff to clear the discarded tents from the mud-splattered campsite.
But instead of grimly contemplating the forthcoming week of work, it's time to remember a few of yesterday's highlights from Inverary...
It is more a lack of options than any fanboy enthusia...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-09-01T20:40:21+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Nick Mitchell</author>
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      <title>Connect 2008 Episode XI: Karl Bartos</title>
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        <![CDATA[Despite seeing the very good Camera Obscura and We Were Promised Jetpacks since my last post, I simply have to finish tonight with a shout-out for Kraftwerk man Karl Bartos. There could only have been about a hundred people in the Unknown Pleasures tent when he took the stage two hours ago, which meant there were less bodies than expected to soak up the huge volume. But, unlike the full Kraftwe...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-08-31T21:45:18+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Ally Brown</author>
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      <title>Connect 2008 Episode X: Young Knives and Santogold try to warm us up</title>
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        <![CDATA[Ally's already bemoaned today's conditions, so I'll refrain from any further mentions of 'rain', 'mud' or 'cesspool' - for the duration of this post anyway.
The first act I caught today was Young Knives, who bounded out on to the Oyster Stage dressed for the office in shirts, trousers and ties. But they belied their formal attire with their tight, punky, Britpop-evoking tunes and amusing bante...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-08-31T18:59:46+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Nick Mitchell</author>
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      <title>Connect 2008 Episode IX: Frightened Rabbit</title>
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        <![CDATA[The Skinny's seen worse than the mud here today, but it's still difficult to keep spirits high when you're soaking wet with no central heating in sight. Those still holding out without wellies are struggling to walk anywhere without falling on their bahookies: just like the scene here last year, when I fell on my arse three times while ruining my trainers. Just as well we've had some great musi...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-08-31T18:09:44+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Ally Brown</author>
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      <title>Connect 2008 Episode VIII: Glasvegas win over the doubters</title>
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        <![CDATA[Everything's been going pretty fast for Glasvegas recently. From a spot by Alan McGee, to a profile in The Skinny (the turning point, of course), to the cover of the NME, the hype's been building towards the release of their debut self-titled album next Monday (review/coronation here). But they remain a polarising band, attracting equal amounts of passionate distaste as passionate fandom. At T ...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-08-31T14:18:33+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Ally Brown</author>
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      <title>Connect 2008 Episode VII: Errors make no mistakes</title>
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        <![CDATA[It's Sunday lunchtime, it has been raining solidly for much of the night, the campsite has gone from a mudbath to a mudpool, so it's time to reminisce of a (slightly) drier time: last night.
With the drizzle gently descending, Glasgow's Errors played a blinding second-top billing slot on the Your Sound Bandstand. The singer may have looked like Wally of Where's Wally? fame in his bright red ha...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-08-31T13:28:46+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Nick Mitchell</author>
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      <title>Connect 2008 Episode VI: The art of destruction</title>
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        <![CDATA[One of the most highly anticipated sets of this year's Connect is surely Spiritualized. They've toured their Acoustic Mainlines show to death, and prior to this frontman Jason Pierce very nearly worked himself to death. So it is with some excitement that we await their full-band, plugged-in, loud-as-fuck appearance on the Oyster Stage.The first half of their show draws heavily from latest album...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-08-30T23:59:10+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Nick Mitchell</author>
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      <title>Connect 2008 Episode V: Late of the Pier live up to their name</title>
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        <![CDATA[After much setting of alarm clocks, brushing of teeth and donning of wellies, we were left with much checking of watches in the field before the Oyster Stage early this afternoon. A steward (or someone articulate enough to do the job) could have told us that Joan As Policewoman had missed their flight, and that Late of the Pier were now taking their place. Instead it was left to LotP singer Sam...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-08-30T23:29:35+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Nick Mitchell</author>
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      <title>Connect 2008 Episode IV: Broken Records n 'at</title>
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        <![CDATA[I got to Hyrdo Connect this morning, dumped backstage by a coach driver who didn't really know where he was going. Oh, there's Kele Okereke. Was he on the bus? The trip here was absolutely stunning. It's easy to forget, living in the city, why so many thousands of tourists flock to this country. It's not for the tetchy comedy at the Fringe, or for Glasgow's raucus nightlife, it's for the castle...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-08-30T16:15:50+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Ally Brown</author>
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      <title>Connect 2008 Episode III: A musical threesome of Kasabian, Mercury Rev and Sparks</title>
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        <![CDATA[When it came to Friday's headliners, The Skinny acted like a typical man and failed to commit to anyone, instead attempting to sample a bit of a threesome - and almost succeeding.
First up is Kasabian on the Oyster Stage (the big one). The music and the synchronised lightshow is impressive, but nothing matches singer Tom Meighan's rockstar chat. He's grown his hair long and lank, but his Cockn...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-08-30T15:43:13+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Nick Mitchell</author>
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      <title>Connect 2008 Episode II: Manics cover Rihanna</title>
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        <![CDATA[Yep, you read that right. Tonight, Welsh Britpop survivors Manic Street Preachers played a cover version of Rihanna's number one hit Umbrella. James Dean Bradfield offered no explanation, simply saying the word 'umbrella', before launching straight into a version of the R'n'B groove in their own inimitable, stadium-rock style. What next? Oasis to cover Jay-Z? Perhaps not.
But this was a triump...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-08-29T22:16:26+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Nick Mitchell</author>
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      <title>Connect 2008 Episode I: Ladytron's first Scottish festival</title>
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        <![CDATA[After Ladytron's first song, Glasgow-born singer Helen Marnie says that this is - incredibly - their first Scottish festival appearance. But then again, when you take a mental tally of what Ladytron amount to, it's perhaps not so surprising. Dressed uniformly in black, on a stage decked out with eight - yes eight - synthesizers, they are a defiantly cold, festival-unfriendly band. If there was ...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-08-29T20:23:14+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Nick Mitchell</author>
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      <title>The theatre of participation</title>
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        <![CDATA[Watching art does not make us better people. If it did, art historians would be renowned for their compassion and sensitivity, dance critics would not go into ferocious rages and, thanks to its comprehensive programme of drama, Glasgow would have a tiny crime rate. Unfortunately, studies have shown that audiences rarely develop profound morality from exquisite performance.
Nevertheless, in a g...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-08-27T17:27:03+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Gareth K Vile</author>
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      <title>On the new Ingleby Gallery</title>
      <link>http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/2-the-skinny-blog/40-on-the-new-ingleby-gallery</link>
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        <![CDATA[I can&rsquo;t say, in all honesty, that I&rsquo;m devastated to wave goodbye to August... A month of slow-walking crowds and over-excited thespians transforms me into one of those sour, proud-local types who can&rsquo;t be doing with all this festival malarkey. Time to draw breath I feel.
On a more positive note, I am currently in awe of the new Ingleby Gallery. The space itself is incredible,...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-08-27T11:52:37+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Rosamund West</author>
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      <title>Comments on homosexuality (Iris Robinson)</title>
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        <![CDATA[When I first heard Iris Robinson&rsquo;s comments on homosexuality, I felt embarrassed to come from the same part of the world as her. I mean, in this day and age, here&rsquo;s a Northern Irish politician offering to refer homosexuals to a nice Christian psychiatrist who can (apparently) turn them straight. She also opposes gay parenting on the grounds that kids may be bullied by their peers, r...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-08-26T11:36:40+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Nine</author>
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      <title>A Gonzo Guide to the Edinburgh Book Festival</title>
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        <![CDATA[Going into Edinburgh for the first event I&rsquo;ll see at this Festival, I have set up some goals. These are, obviously, to see a lot of writers talking about their books, and to interview a couple of them too. But a fiend of mine (yes, fiend, not &lsquo;friend&rsquo;) sent me a spreadsheet of &lsquo;1001 books you must read before you die&rsquo; knowing full well that I&rsquo;d have to go thr...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-08-11T14:34:50+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Keir Hind</author>
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      <title>T 2008, Epilogue: Stipe Turns RoboCop, Burgess Goes For Bowl</title>
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        <![CDATA[With an unshakable vision of Tim Burgess&rsquo; one man undercut resurrection, another peerless dose of math rockin&rsquo; beats from Battles and a mesmerising gig by Toronto electro rock combo Holy Fuck all wedged in the memory as some of the most entertaining scenes of the afternoon, a bit of headline jousting between big names demanded some sprinting between stages to catch a slice of R.E.M....]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-07-16T22:50:14+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Johnny Langlands</author>
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      <title>T 2008, Episode VIII: Doing Justice to The National</title>
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        <![CDATA[The problem with Sunday's impressive T in the Park line-up was always going to be how to condense a normal six month's worth of gig going into the space of eleven hours. Without the benefit of some real-life Sky+ pause and rewind capability (we're only human), it was inevitable that sacrifices were going to have to be made.This evening, as the bands got bigger, one such compromise resulted in a...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-07-13T20:18:06+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Nick Mitchell</author>
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      <title>T 2008, Episode VII: BJM Delays The Inevitable</title>
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        <![CDATA[As the biggest roar I've heard all weekend goes up over my shoulder heralding the unexpected arrival of her from the ward, Amy Winehouse, I figure it's as good a time as any to supply some festival feedback. As previously reported, last night inevitably belonged to Rage. But the day began long before that - just ask my aching feet. The Pet Sounds Arena, from what I gathered, belonged very much ...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-07-13T17:44:01+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Finbarr Bermingham</author>
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      <title>T 2008, Episode VI: Glasvegas have arrived</title>
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        <![CDATA[Every festival has at least one - a band that blows up just before the weekend arrives so that their stage draw is underestimated - and T in the Park 2008's was Glasvegas. We arrived at the mid-sized Futures Tent for their early evening Saturday show a full 20 minutes before it was due to start, and the stewards were already closing it off; we just managed to sneak in, while desperate others we...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-07-13T13:48:58+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Ally Brown</author>
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      <title>T 2008, Episode V: Bringing angry back</title>
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        <![CDATA[Rage Against the Machine rolled back the years and brought down the curtain on day two of T in the Park in typically explosive style tonight (Saturday, 11 July).   Earlier in the afternoon, a set from Belgian indie rockers dEUS - who, like tomorrow&rsquo;s Tut&rsquo;s stage headliners Primal Scream, also shared the bill with Rage in 1994 - marked itself out as a rare highlight on the Radio One ...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-07-13T12:17:16+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Dave Kerr</author>
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      <title>T in the Park: the blog o' death episode II</title>
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        <![CDATA[The first full day of T In The Park is underway and The Skinny - rested, fed and watered, has had a chance to reflect on the night that went before. After some initial schizophrenic indecision, Mother Nature finally decided to give the rain a night off. Our wellies are still stashed safely in our rucksacks... which, along with the solid ground underfoot, is a welcome novelty for a Saturday afte...]]>
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      <pubDate>2008-07-12T16:45:12+01:00</pubDate>
      <author>Finbarr Bermingham</author>
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