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
FOUND / Make Model @ Out Of The Blue, 4 Dec
Isn't the music of this time of year supposed to be shit? Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Woodenbox - Woodenbox
A fine collection of lilting, worldly-wise folk pop. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
MusicInterpol @ Carling Academy
It's easy to feel like you're alone in the venue with just the band and the hairs on the back of your neck Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Qui @ King Tut's, 20 Nov
For a frontman who is more intrepid than most when he has a mic in his fist, David Yow cuts an unassuming figure as he shimmies around Tut's while Hey Enemy ... Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Roisin Murphy @ ABC, 1 Dec
A show of the visual kind, at times eclipsing the music itself Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
MusicSons and Daughters @ Cabaret Voltaire, 2 Dec
Sons and Daughters certainly provide some colloquial laughs and bare-faced iconoclasm, matched by their mesmerising stage presence. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008
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MusicSwimmer One @ Voodoo Rooms, 22 Nov
Whilst the songs are flawlessly delivered, tonight the intensity that the record is so loaded with seems somehow lacking. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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The Twilight Sad @ Cabaret Voltaire
It's been a good year for Scottish music and tonight's bill at Cabaret Voltaire offers up three reasons why Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
MusicThis Is Music @ Henry's Cellar Bar, 29 Nov
A multi-vocal, multi-guitar onslaught of sound, tonight Action Group delivers Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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UNKLE @ ABC, 13 Nov
Let's not piss about here: UNKLE haven't been playing in quite the same ballpark since DJ Shadow left the fold not long after the appearance of their definin... Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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A Muso's Top 10: Yeasayer
Given the eclecticism of All Hour Cymbals, it was no surprise that Yeasayer gave us a top ten covering five decades, three continents, million-selling mega-hits, out-of-print odd-jobs, and multiple styles and fashions. It's a myriad list that defies obvious logic; just how we like it. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Live Music Roundup - January
Kula Shaker are here to help you tap that retro vein with a fat bag of Tattva Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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The Dirty Dozen - January, 2008
A new year of new musical masterpieces? Nick Mitchell assesses the first batch... Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Metal Up Your Ass - January, 2008
It's a new year with new music reaching Scotland but alongside it come those welcome smatterings of the old and familiar Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Art
Ye Ye: Michelle Naismith and David Michael Clarke
A veritable wank-bank for the aspiring philosophy student. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008