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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Iko Itzu - The Electronic Fighter
With a little more focus there could be either a cross-over hit or an underground anthem on this album, but it's too unsure of what it wants to be Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Atjazz - Full Circle
A collection that sidesteps musical fashions and is all the better for it Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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A State of Mind & Skrein - Pre-emptive Nostalgia
Diversity is key, down to the finest detail Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Akufen and Guillame & The Coutu Dumounts, Freq, Sub Club, 5 Oct
A rapturous applause and a surge of outstretched hands towards the DJ booth suggests that this is a successful event indeed Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Pressure 9th Birthday, The Arches, Glasgow, 30 Nov
His final track, The Man With a Red Face, is a fittingly epic end to a fittingly epic night Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Black Affair, Amp Box, Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh, 30 Nov
An all-round vibrant night Read more »| 06 Jan 2008
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MusicBlack Mountain - A Stormy High
Axl Rose might have a fanbase so large that he can afford to shed a few thousand members for every month he postpones the release of the Chinese Democracy, but when today's fickle downloader wants more music from their favourite new band no sooner than they've had their first fix, the two years that Vancouver quintet Black Mountain and their fierce brand of psych rock have spent away from the public eye could have cost them dearly. Now they're back with what could prove to be their career-defining LP, Amber Webber and Matt Camirand tell Dave Kerr what kept them in the game. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Queens of the Stone Age @ The Academy, 28 Nov
It pains me to type it: but lamenting the Queens of old could become the way of the future Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Books100 Favorite Scottish Football Poems, edited by Alistair Findlay.
You'll find Bill Shankly here, 'Football boots in one hand / Football's soul in the other' Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
BooksTree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
Has just won the American National Book Award. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Thirty-Three Teeth, by Colin Cotterill
An intriguing blend of mysticism and communism Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
BooksThe Mojo Collection (Fourth Edition)
The Bible for a certain breed of Music buff. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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A Good School by Richard Yates
Probably the best starting point for anyone looking to begin reading Yates Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Music
Henry Rollins - The Everyman
With the coming election year in his crosshairs, punk rock legend Henry Rollins tells The Skinny exactly why the present social and cultural order in the US continues to give him ample fodder for his spoken word tours Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Minus the Bear @ King Tuts, 12 Dec
More energy required, perhaps Read more »| 06 Jan 2008