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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Books
The End Of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas
A hugely playful novel, tripping over itself with name-dropping and then theory-dropping. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
MusicElvis Perkins - All The Night Without Love
There's a new Elvis in town. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Music
Edinburgh Under Surveillance: July
There's enough gold in them there venues to keep things ticking over nicely Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Music
A Muso's Top Ten: The Horrors
If Spider's enthusiasm is anything to go by, he must be seriously feeling these melodies... Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Music
VERSAcoustic @ The Bongo Club
The perfect antidote to the excesses of the night before. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
MusicStrike The Colours - The Face That Sunk A Thousand Ships
A captivating saunter into a world of soul-pondering and organic songwriting Read more »| 10 Jul 2007
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Music
Hamfatter - What Part Of Hamfatter Do You Not Understand?
Very much like listening to the dreary boasts of some smarmy git student about their wacky gap year escapades. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
MusicPatti Smith @ ABC
Experienced? This is bona fide rock 'n' roll history 101 by one of the originators. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Music
Modest Mouse @ ABC
Far from "some sad ass little canoe" Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Music
Willy Mason @ The Liquid Room
You know he means every word. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
MusicBattles @ ABC 2, 23 May
Making everyone else look primitive by comparison. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Clubs
War on Hearing - OPPOSITES ISSUE
The Skinny grab the cotton wool balls and scream 'turn that down!' as we go on the quest for quieter sounds and systems Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Comedy
Stars - July 2007
You're weird.. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Film
Guillermo del Toro on the future of DVD
As one of the leading filmmakers of the day, you'd think Guillermo del Toro would be a fan of cinema. Actually, it turns out it's a bit more complicated than... Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Film
HD-VMD
HD-DVD and Blu-Ray have been spending so much time and money battling it out between themselves. We're the black horse. We don't have that high brand awarene... Read more »| 10 Jun 2007