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 Zips - Guitars 4 Hire
Grumpy Old Men? Lyrically maybe, but still doing exactly what it says on the tin. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
Five O'Clock Heroes - Bend to the Breaks
40 minutes and 21 seconds of catchy and well crafted if not exactly life changing pop songs. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Clubs
Top 6
Top 6FC Kahuna @ We Are… Electric, Cabaret Voltaire, Oct 11, free b4 12 or members/£2Electro, house, ska, funk – is it electric? Then this club wi... Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
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Dimitri from Paris and The Unabombers, Ultragroove, Cabaret Voltaire, Sept 23
Dimitri started early and had the music savvy flocking towards the decks. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Clubs
Aim, King Tuts Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow, Oct 27
British hip-hop has long been regarded as a rather London-centric genre with limited wider relevance or appreciation, and only a few artists have really broken free from that stereotype. One exception is Manchester based producer Andy Turner, AKA Aim. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
ClubsMr V - 'Welcome Home'
Just when you start to relax into the groove, it ups and moves onto the next track. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006
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ClubsJustin Timberlake - 'FutureSex/LoveSounds'
Initially adorned with alternative funk/hip hop flavours and a sharp pop attitude, it degenerates into R&B balladry fit for your average screaming, hysterical, oversexed girlie.
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Clubs
Four Tet - 'Remixes'
Tweaked, pinched and nudged until another side of the music is revealed Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
ClubsDarc Mind - 'Symptomatic of A Greater Ill'
They don't make 'em like this anymore. A lost classic, resurfacing at just the right time Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Art
Scottish Collective - Subverting Expectations
the hoary old cliché of the tortured, solitary artist toiling away in his garret is a concept that is increasingly alien to many emerging artists Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
Love Is All - Make Out, Fall Out, Make Up
barking mad disco-punk Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
Archie Bronson Outfit - Cherry Lips
intensely well-worked portrayal of passionate unease Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
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My Morning Jacket - Okonokos
...The stuff dreams are made of. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Art
Michael Wildman - Under the Skin
Undoubtedly Wildman's own stint as a life model has given him an insight into what it's like in front of the lens Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Art
Girlpower and Boyhood
succeeds in exploring the grand, romantic vagaries of the imagination Read more »| 13 Oct 2006