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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MusicSkye - 'Mind How You Go'
Skye gets personal Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
MusicMorning Runner - Wilderness is Paradise Now
This piano changes mood like it has multiple personalities. It begins with bombastic rocky intentions, only to become all tearful and smooth. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
FBC - 'The Landing Party'
Welcome to Jazz Club, where the drinks are overpriced but the people are nice Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
Dilated Peoples - '20/20'
Back again is the cunningly entitled first single from Dilated Peoples' latest record '20/20' and considering the current climate in bling-loving la-la-land, thankfully it's true Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
MusicCorinne Bailey Rae - 'Corinne Bailey Rae'
The R&B anticlimax of the season Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
Carol Laula - 'Kitchen Stories'
The songs smoothly run the gamut of emotions from A to B, but rarely stretch to C. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006
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Clubs
Optimo meets Super Saturday, Feb 4, The Venue, Edinburgh
The lure of Optimo meets Super Saturday certainly proved to be a triumphant one for Edinburgh's Venue. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Liquid Room @ Edinburgh
I did not clap my hands. I did not say yeah. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
Flying Matchstick Men - All Your Secrets
unashamedly Scottish, unashamedly camp Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
Buzzcocks - Wish I Never Loved You
by stubbornly sticking to a tired formula the Buzzcocks have only highlighted their own irrelevance.
Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
Various - 'Walk the Line OST'
The world needs many things right now. What it does not require are characterless versions of Folsom Prison Blues, Ring of Fire, and I Walk the Line Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
Stereolab - 'Fab Four Suture'
It's kind of like soaking in a hot bath while reading a good book - the water's lovely but you hardly notice it Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
MusicJo Mango - Paperclips and Sand
leave the ordinary for the extra - Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Theatre
Trainspotting
Harry Gibson's adaptation of Irvine Welsh's celebrated novel, currently on its tenth anniversary tour, is a little hard to adjust to: it necessarily leaves o... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Theatre
Get Carter
Up-front and uncompromising. Misogyny, corruption and violence hang round Carter like a cloud. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006