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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Hip Hop? Dinnae Stop!
Before we forget, remember the tea-lovin' Mr Scruff? Of course you do; he's back in Edinburgh on 18 Oct Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Edinburgh Feature: Skream If You Want To Go Faster
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Tempa Records ingénue Skream is a young producer who is going places. As he prepares to drop some serious sub-bass on Edinburgh's Volume!, we ask him how his sound has evolved since he witnessed the birth of dubstep.
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""The term dubstep came about because it was the best way to describe it, but some of it has no relevance to dub... it's just the instrumental part that carries that association. I just play what I play."" Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Simon Baker, Infant Record Night, Off The Record and Animal Farm, The Soundhaus, Glasgow, 6 Oct
Glasgow will be treated to another dark and dirty house night Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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To Rococo Rot - ABC123
A dizzying but pleasant claustrophobia Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Music
Acoustic Ladyland @ Cabaret Voltaire
How much fun it is to shun expectations and traditions? Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Music
Boredoms @ The Arches
Dance AND brutality? not me, I just NOISE and GO Read more »| 08 Oct 2007
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Music
Hell Is For Heroes, Westport Bar, Dundee, 26 Oct
Playing to their strengths when on a sticky stage Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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The Coral, ABC, Glasgow, 20 Oct
We're lucky to still have these Scouse scallywags around at all Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Music
The Decemberists @ Carling Academy
Granted, they're a bit nuts on record, which translates to 'should I alert a care home?' onstage, but Christ, they're entertaining. Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Music
Kyte - Planet
Everybody's doing a brand new dance now… Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
MusicRobots In Disguise - The Sex Has Made Me Stupid
Sets your pulse racing and your hips gyrating Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
MusicPaperlung - Balance
By trying to play it safe, Paperlung have fallen flat on their faces Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Music
iLiKETRAiNS - Elegies To Lessons Learnt
Imagine The Smiths and Explosions In The Sky cramming in some last minute history revision. Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Film
The Counterfeiters
An outstanding German drama Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Theatre
Yellow Moon: The Ballad of Leila and Lee
more bravado than balls, more instinct than intelligence Read more »| 08 Oct 2007