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
Rose Kemp - Violence
This juxtaposition of pain with beauty, and discomfort with warmth makes these songs a delight to behold Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Film
Shortbus
Even the most sexually adventurous turn out to have hang-ups. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
MusicArt Brut @ ABC2
Still predictable, still ironic, still catchy. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
MusicPeaches - Boys Wanna Be Her
a hard-hitting, repetitive drone Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
MusicMastodon - The Wolf is Loose
Having been brought up as a metalhead before veering off to listen to more experimental music, people often recommend bands that they think will fulfil the c... Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
MusicTunng - It's Because... We've Got Hair
Tunng's ability to make even a glitch solo sound like a long entrenched part of the folk tradition is a continued joy that no catchy chorus can diminish. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006
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Art
Hey, Hetero!
Their kitschy advert-style artwork draws attention to heterosexual privileges that are otherwise taken for granted Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Music
Warchild Benefit @ Bannermans
Good times... Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Music
Dananananaykroyd - Some Dresses
Awkward art-school rock meets punk chaos Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Music
Paul Buchanan: Still in The Nile
"If it makes you feel like dancing on your coffee table that's fine, if it makes you feel like lying down in a dark room that's fine too." Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Music
Uncle Fritz - Field Reports
A series of hauntingly atmospheric acoustic lullabies Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
FilmThe Grudge 2
Just when you thought it was safe to pop your head back in the cupboard, that creepy lass who burps in your face just before she shocks you to death is back.... Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Music
The Rifles @ King Tuts
Generic but laudable gut-punch rock Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Theatre
The Two Faces of Mitchell & Webb @ The Kings Theatre, Glasgow
men of many faces - most of them funny Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Film
The Skinny in Pictures - Ugly for Art
This month The Skinny scoured the annals of film to find good looking thespians who have 'Jade Goodied' themselves up to look worse than Shane McGowan after ... Read more »| 12 Dec 2006