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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The Pyramids - Hunch Your Body, Love Somebody
Raw, dirty garage rock at its best Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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The Troubadours - Gimme Love
Are you listening, Fratellis? Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
MusicThe Wildhearts - The New Flesh
Catchy in the same way as one might regard syphilis Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
MusicThe Wombats - Let's Dance to Joy Division
Ample jumpy guitar and sing-a-long choruses Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Turin Brakes - Stalker
Falling somewhere between U2's most recent efforts and This Is My Truth… era Manics Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Amber Souls - Devil Insida Me
Van Halen, Kasabian, Wyld Stallyns - your boys took one helluva beating! Read more »| 08 Oct 2007
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The OK Coral
SF: James Skelly waxes lyrical to Duncan Forgan about the rejuvenation of his band and their distrust of the great southern Metropolis.
PQ: ""You look at modern popular culture these days and you can easily tell who is sucking corporate cock or not. Sometimes you just think that civilisation is going to shit."" - James Skelly Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Iron and Wine
Scraggy bearded cult folk maverick Sam Beam gives Hamza Khan a little bit of insight into his new album and the sorry state of his Hallowe'en costume collection. Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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The Holloways @ The Garage
By deftly shifting genres, they keep the mood amiable and buoyant Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Little John Rocket @ Nice 'N' Sleazy
They stamp Basement with a stark Glaswegian energy and are appropriating the sound of New Wave for their own nefarious fury Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
MusicTurin Brakes - Dark On Fire
Listeners may feel that they've been snagged by that age-old trap of inverse single-to-filler ratio Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
MusicTom Ovans - Party Girl
A bleak and austere commentary on the daily grind of American life Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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The Checks - Hunting Whales
Though technically outstanding, after all of these years of similar sound forgery it could prove difficult to buy into this template wholeheartedly Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Scout Niblett - This Fool Can Die Now
Majestic doesn't seem too strong a word Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
MusicPram - The Moving Frontier
Feels more like a film soundtrack than an LP to sit up and pay attention too Read more »| 08 Oct 2007