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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Daniel A.I.U. Higgs - Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot
Unfortunately, in the quest for art he has sacrificed melodic sounds for experimental banjo licks and prolonged mouth harp interludes Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
ClubsBeverley Knight - Music City Soul
Amazing voice, great talent, unmissable album Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
MusicArctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent
Wouldn't sound out of place in some idealised 1950s American high-school dance. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
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Manic Street Preachers - Autumnsong
Immediate and stripped of any past pomposity... Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
MusicParka - If You Wanna
The record wears its idols on its sleeve, with the mod-tastic name of the band lettered in the ransom-note cut-up style made famous by the snotty three-chord thrashers of years gone by. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
MusicThe Coral - Who's Gonna Find Me
Psychedelic guitars swirl and screech while lavish vocal harmonies recall àoddly enough à70s super-groups like The Eagles and Fleetwood Mac Read more »| 10 Jul 2007
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The Wombats - Kill the Director
This second single from the Liverpudlian pretenders is a tiresome noise Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
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Tommie Sunshine, We Are... Electric, Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, 4 July
Full on European electro-punk house sets to brighten up your midweek! Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
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Roisin Murphy - Overpowered
Murphy has long since sacrificed the Queen of electronica title, and seems in no form to win it back. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
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The Egg, Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh, Saturdays
Focusing on a more retrospective and regional music policy, The Egg is the central ovum of three significant musical decades from the 1900s Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
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Headspin, The Bongo Club, Edinburgh, 14 July
One of the most regularly packed nights in Edinburgh returns with a Headspin resident special on the 14th Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
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Four Corners, The Bongo Club, Edinburgh, 6 July
The club has now gone monthly, so that you can get twelve times the beats a year Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
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DJ Junior, Departure Lounge (4th Birthday), The Caves, 20 July
It's Departure Lounge's fourth bithday and they're celebrating in style with DJ Junior Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
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Box Codax - Missed Her Kiss
Missed Her Kiss is frankly a rather tedious venture which somewhat
unsuccessfully attempts to jump on the art-geek gameboy-electro-sound Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
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Dead Disco - You're Out
It's sure to be the sound of a party near you soon Read more »| 10 Jul 2007