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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FilmOnce in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos
They became the original 'galacticos', spearheaded by none other than Brazilian demi-god Pele. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
MusicRobin Guthrie - Applying the Lumiere
I get a kick out of watching the world drifting by the window and just letting ideas come to me Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
MusicCopy Haho - Indie A Go Go!
"It's hard to describe how exactly we sound, you could just say we're a kind of guitar-based indie band with melodic bits. Y'know, kind of indie." Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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T-Break Heat 2 @ The Liquid Room, 8 May
Imagine you're getting married and every close relative is in a band, so you're obligated to let them all play, despite some resembling musicians and some un... Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Slither
Saving the world one ugly worm at a time Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Waiting...
Despite a decent cast this film never serves up what you've ordered. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006
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Music
All the best, Arthur Lee
Do you realise? That one day all your musical heroes must die? These men who make immortal music are not themselves immortal Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
MusicJenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - You Are What You Love
Behind the sweetness lurks a cynical witticism Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Belle & Sebastian and Friends @ The Tramway, 30 Apr
Two men entreating even the twee-est kids to catch the flow and let their hearts skip a beat Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Tool – 10,000 Days
all the key elements are here and the machine is well oiled Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Kool Keith @ The Bongo Club
Making the worn out and half-cut faithful feel something like the patients who hang around in vain on Dr Octagon's Waiting List, Kool Keith finally hauls his... Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Battles @ The Venue, 28 Apr
It's a precious thing to witness such a performance, and even rarer to come away thinking that the band in question are capable of even greater things Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Found & How To Swim @ Cabaret Voltaire
Found occupy the growing space between electronic music and the folk rock tradition Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Silver Jews and Alasdair Roberts @ The Bongo Club
a poet who has learned the joy of a wall of amplifiers Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Buck 65 @ The Bongo Club
Few forays into his sizeable and diverse back catalogue Read more »| 15 Jun 2006