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
The Upper Room - Other People's Problems
The eighties - just as good as they ever were Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Burn, Don't Freeze: The End of Sleater-Kinney? (Web only)
this felt like a beginning, not an end Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Bonnie Prince Billy - Cursed Sleep
It's Bonnie Prince Billy gone... sexy! Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Bonobo - Nightlife
An absolute delight: a tight, subtly infectious bossa nova beat and gently rising strings Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Clearlake - It's Getting Light Outside
Emotionally mature rockers walk down memory lane Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Denied Sons of Iglesias - Brand New Way of Thinking
supplements a reputation starting to grow among gig goers but fails to really set the heather alight Read more »| 14 Aug 2006
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Goose - Black Gloves
Black Gloves aims for angular, floor-filling credibility but is just too blatant for its own good Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Red Hot Chili Peppers - Tell Me Baby
Tell Me Baby is an upbeat little number that may well ingratiate itself on your eardrums Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
Lyrics that are emptily universal and unadorned chord changes presumably meant to be rousing. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Steeple Remove - Love Machine
If you ever wished that Blade Runner was a perfect pop song, then this is for you. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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The Buzzcocks - Sell You Everything
There is little here that breaks, or even fills, the mould. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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The Early Years - So Far Gone
the promised climax comes in the form of an effects pedal orgy Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Mr Tubaob'u - Erase the Borders
Skank, stomp, groove. Repeat. Let the voodoo vibes fly. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Luxury Car - Annie's Well
this Luxury Car owes all its prestige to the classically designed engines of yesteryear Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Film
Black to the future
We all guiltily laugh at the sick joke our friend tells us even though we are truly appalled by the seriousness of the subject matter. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006