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
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 -
Music
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 -
ClubsA 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 -
MusicNoisettes - 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 -
Music
Audioalysis
The inescapable 'playing safe' of an early self-funded release... Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
MusicThe Xcerts - My Book Laughs
Safely clunking over a pop punk rhythm. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007
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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 -
Music
Xvectors
Rave is no longer the underground movement of yesteryear - now they call it a scene. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Clubs
Silicone Soul - Bad Machines
Whilst it is a fun song that you can boogie away to, it's just not anything special or original. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Clubs
Basement Breaks, 13th Note, Glasgow, 21 Feb
The years away seems to have been good for everyone's drive, giving the crowd that hunger, and the performers the desire to make sure everyone goes home well fed. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Clubs
Hip-Hop by BringDaRuckus
Don't bother going if you're walking the path of 8mile... but do if you're up for talking, laughs and smiles! Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Comedy
Martin Soan, Tron Theatre, 18 Mar
his jokes are stealth bombers flying beneath the radar of our sophisticated adult sensibilities Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Music
Kid Canaveral - Smash Hits
It's a familiar conundrum: "She's fit, but her music taste's shite." Erase Errata vs. Neil Sedaka. And you might dwell on this - the most wretched of... Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Clubs
El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
I'll Sleep... owes as much to the hyperactive cut and paste anarchy of the Bomb Squad's productions as it does to El-P's own back catalogue Read more »| 11 Apr 2007