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
BMX Bandits @ Teviot Union
Time flies when your spilling your heart out to people you don't know very well. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Music
Adriana / Speaker's Corner / Angel Conversations @ Bannermans
A well-rounded evening with an unfortunate lull in the Angel's set Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
FilmTransamerica
A real sense of empathy for its characters. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Clubs
DJ Yoda presents 'Yoda Goes To The Movies', GUU
In the words of the man himself, we're all of ""the MTV generation of kids with short attention spans"" Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Music
Wolf Eyes
The more energy we put out the more comes back from the audience, it's intoxicating. At the moment we are working as hard as we can and the live shows are more insane than ever. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Music
Sun Ra Arkestra (Interview)
This is Sun Ra; of course he's from Saturn Read more »| 16 Apr 2006
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Music
Uncle John and Whitelock @ The Bongo Club
A discordant mass of punk-fuelled aggression Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Music
Dick Dangerous & The Love Bastards / Crazy Vincent / Egg in a Tree @ Bannermans
A trio of diverse bands staunchly testify that there is great promise brewing in the central belt Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Film
Trouble - Live in Stockholm
Every song might sound exactly the same, but lets face it, you'll be too stoned to notice. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Music
The Revivals - High in Friend's Places
Thirty years ago the Revivals could have made an impact Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Music
My Latest Novel - Wolves
Favourable comparisons to the likes of Belle and Sebastian and The Arcade Fire hardly do justice when describing these original and beautiful melodies Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
MusicLeon - Uppers and Downers
The outcome is some of the most uninspiring and standardised 'music' I've had the bad luck to lend my ears to Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
MusicKilling Joke - Hosannas from the Basement of Hell
Showing off a few less wrinkles than you'd possibly expect Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Clubs
Season of Sound with Ron Carroll @ Bamboo
Carroll delivered a set of fine grooving, Chicago-town flavoured house to an enthusiastic Bamboo dancefloor Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Clubs
Come on You Cunts, Let's Have Some Aphex Acid
Bewildering four-to-the-floor gurners has been Aphex Twin's stock in trade Read more »| 16 Apr 2006