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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MusicEels @ Royal Concert Hall, 28 Feb
A rare, retrospective moment for E, and a pertinent reminder of his oblique genius Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
MusicThe Editors @ Carling Academy
The set plays out like their greatest, great hits, and it's that consistent quality which should surely outshine the far casting shadow of their influences Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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Dead Meadow @ King Tut's
As Dead Meadow begin their set, one thing is abundantly clear: drummer Stephen McCarty has cultivated a really boss moustache Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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Amplifico @ Club Ego
There's a pervading feeling that the 'Fico's time might finally have come Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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Wildbirds & Peacedrums - Heartcore
A classic example of why, sometimes, less is so much more Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
MusicVincent Vincent And The Villains - Gospel Bombs
A refreshingly well-groomed antithesis to the dishevelled indieness dominating the UK soundscape
Read more »| 01 Apr 2008
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Trouble Over Tokyo - Pyramides
By passing up the opportunity to whine, he may just have given his genre another string to its bow Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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The Ike Reilly Assassination - Junkie Faithful/Sparkle In The Finish
For a man often compared to the likes of Beck and Eels, this double album is distinctly disappointing Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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The Draytones - Up In My Head
When all the pieces work, The Draytones show flashes of brilliance Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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Temposhark - The Invisible Line
The choruses are almost exclusively repeated variations of the same line, acting like rapid aging machines which render the songs ancient with a quickness Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
MusicSupergrass - Diamond Hoo Ha
If we apply the 'if you leave wine, will it become vintage or vinegar' dichotomy here, this is virtually undrinkable Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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Son Lux - At war with walls and mazes
Ryan Lott could be singing the phone book and it'd sound pained Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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Singer - Unhistories
A lethargic but strangely engaging spaced-out rock/jazz hybrid Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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Puerto Muerto - I Was a Swallow
The thrust of the record is subtly morbid, sexually charged alt-country Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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Nothing Gained - Nascent
First impressions are of a female-fronted, less appealing Disturbed, which is a frankly ludicrous concept anyway: an oxymoron akin to ""a less hateable Mick Hucknall"" Read more »| 01 Apr 2008