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 Institute for Electronic Artists: Edinburgh Launch, The Bongo Cafe, March 15
It's an ideal way to judge how your music is being received while retaining a degree of anonymity Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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Basstrap Presents Roni Size, The Bongo Club, Edinburgh, March 10
The unique Full Cycle sound along with the benefit of being a technically excellent DJ saw Roni Size blaze through a masterclass of mixes. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
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The Gasman 'This One's For You'
The album provides intrepid, slow moving soundscapes alongside chaotic, beat filled creations. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
ClubsSpank Rock - 'YoYoYoYoYo'
Genuinely fresh, this new blueprint for hip-hop lets the jaw-dropping trickery of Spank's Dizzee-esque flow shine over some truly raw club-bangers, and has the depth and intricacy to make it a classic Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
ClubsRichard Bartz - BIG
Those of us who've moved on since eighties techno had better give it a miss Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
ClubsDFA - 'The DFA Remixes: Chapter One'
The DFA funkify and coolize a selection of tracks Read more »| 16 Apr 2006
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ClubsBenjamin Zephaniah - Naked / Naked & Mixed Up
A brave, bold, and timely release from a genuine living legend Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Music
Gary Numan
The odd, aloof, distanced persona of his early work was an ""accurate representation"" of how he actually felt, proving fascinating for some and off-putting for his haters Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Music
Fire Engines
a jarring blast of nervy, insect-warriors-duelling-to-the-death guitars Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Books
Free Speech on Trial in Turkey: Murat Belge Speaks
What is embraced in Turkey as valuable by the international community is anathema to Turkish nationalism. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Film
American Eye
In a new regular feature, our American correspondent Mark Jeffries casts an observational eye over a celluloid issue setting tongues wagging in the Land Of The Free. This month, 9/11 - The Movie? Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
MusicWigwam - Wigwam
I can't decide whether it's cool or just a guilty pleasure, but either way, count me in. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Music
Wolfmother @ King Tut's
saved from pastiche by the sheer variety of checkpoints they acknowledge Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Music
White Rose Movement @ Barfly
choke the last breath from the eighties influenced, electro-clash scene yet smear their angsty grease all over the set Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Music
Station Project @ Nice'n'Sleazys
thrillingly confident music batters off the cobwebs, leaving dumbfounded spectators in their wake Read more »| 16 Apr 2006