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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MusicGet Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - War Of The Worlds
sounds good for a while, then it just dies on itself. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Music
The Ordinary Boys - How To Get Everything You Ever Wanted In Ten Easy Steps (B-Unique)
a tragically limp record determined to ride the crest of an opportunist wave Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Music
Susurrus Station - 1,2 Unbuckle the Blue
Walks a tightrope between the obliquely poetic and the plain pretentious Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Music
Yourcodenameis:milo - Print Is Dead Vol. 1
The results are often shocking. The Trapeze Artist is brutal and comes with chopped, heavy riffing and manic wails, yet features The Automatic. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Music
Puerto Muerto - Songs Of Muerto County Relived
Hauntingly beautiful at times, melancholic at others, Puerto Muerto is soporose and quixotic all at once. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Music
The Datsuns @ Cabaret Voltaire
Rock n roll was never meant to be this boring. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006
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Music
Chicks on Speed / The Wraiths @ The Caves
paint and strobe were splashed everywhere, and nudity erupted on a wide scale
""they are the channelled spirits of two fourteenth century monks"" Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Music
Calexico & Beirut @ ABC
Calexico may be tonight's headliners, but in the months to come it'll be the sound of Beirut that fiddles its way into your heart. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Film
Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny
There are only so many times you can rhyme ""rock"" with ""cock"" and still generate laughs. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Film
Shortbus Q+A with director John Cameron Mitchell
Shortbus began as a formal exercise in showing sex in a film in a way I hadn't seen. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
FilmJackass Number Two
Often hilarious, occasionally unwatchable. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Clubs
Tiefschwarz, We Are Electric, Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Nov 22
Basti Schwarz timed the dosing of the other three with such command that the final hour was one to be remembered Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
MusicThe Twilight Singers @ Oran Mor, 12 Dec
Bar-room keyboards tinkle in the softer moments, the band are by turns reflective and aggressive Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Film
Big Nothing
Overacted to a cringe-worthy degree. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Clubs
Top 6 Nights in Edinburgh and Glasgow
Top 6 EdinburghTweek @ Po Na Na, Dec 6, £0Bruno F-K and Ian Brandon return for another night, a completely free night may we add, of breaks, techno, el... Read more »| 12 Dec 2006