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
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 -
MusicFlying Matchstick Men - All Your Secrets
unashamedly Scottish, unashamedly camp Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
MusicBuzzcocks - 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 -
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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 -
MusicStereolab - '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 -
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Jo Mango - Paperclips and Sand
leave the ordinary for the extra - Read more »| 17 Mar 2006
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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 -
Music
White Heat @ Cabaret Voltaire @ Edinburgh
a wide array of catchy mod-pop that kept the dance floor and the bar busy all night Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
Regina Spektor - Live at Cabaret Voltaire (revised)
New songs, vivid as tangerines Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
MusicSpinto Band - Direct to Helmet
Despite the Mystery Jets' best efforts, the royalty is all American and Delaware's Spinto Band are like dukes. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
Muscle Tusk
This shit is pure attitude Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Laura Veirs - Secret Someones
Not particularly upsetting... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
Graystar - Singles EP
Rather than churning out predictable laments that aspire to little more than myopic commercialism, Graystar has created an EP of beautifully poignant songs that gently etches its way into your heart. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
Gasgiant - Uncertainty Principle
The musical equivalent of that kid at a party who insists on sitting alone in the corner. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006