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
Various - Romanian Jazz
Transylvanian hunger! Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Thief - Sunchild
creates great expectations Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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The Primary 5 - Go
A luminous cocktail of mouth-watering harmonies Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Ross Copperman - Welcome to Reality
Copperman is one of those 'solo artists' with an anonymous, uncredited band plonked behind him in the name of credibility. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Ostinato - Chasing The Form
Like an instrumental Symphony X with a little less progressive metal Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Labasheeda - Charity Box
A drum-falling-down-stairs tune you can hum in the shower. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007
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Adam S Leslie - A Lincolnshire Echo
runs the risk of capturing nothing more than a passing interest from anyone other than the most staunch of sixties revivalists. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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The Grim Northern Social @ Liquid Room
They might not be re-inventing the wheel anytime soon, but the GNS has passion and sincerity in swathes Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Clubs
A Lasting Legacy: Guru's Jazzmatazz
As Guru prepares to release the fourth installment in his seminal Jazzmatazz series, Bram Gieben looks at what made the series great, and what treats are in store. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Noisettes - Nothing to Dread
I was also doing the Jade Goody workout, until it all became controversial that is. - Jamie Morrison Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Audioalysis
The inescapable 'playing safe' of an early self-funded release... Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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The Xcerts - My Book Laughs
Safely clunking over a pop punk rhythm. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Film
Film releases April
a mother and daughter singing and dancing double act ... sharing their 28 room pile with cats, racoons and fleas Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Music
These Arms Are Snakes - The Feast of Easter
"I think it's telling to see how prominent rock or more specifically punk music has become a part of the cultural landscape; to see this very conservative, Christian, very safe and obedient sort of mindset creeping in..." - Brian Cook Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Xvectors
Rave is no longer the underground movement of yesteryear - now they call it a scene. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007