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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Stuart A. Staples - That Leaving Feeling
combines hushed strumming and intimate piano with some swaggeringly grand orchestral arrangements Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Josh Ritter - Egyptian Lillian
A tender triumph of countrified folk and heartening lyricism Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Liam Frost and the Slowdown Family @ Cabaret Voltaire
Frost's storyboard of childhood trauma and adolescent anguish is unveiled in all its glory. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Jim Noir @ The Venue
A glorious concoction of wind swept vocals and buttercup melodies Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Humanzi @ Cabaret Voltaire
the result never came across as schizoid but as a tight and volatile display of how you never need to write the same song twice Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
MusicYoung Stanley - Sing It For England
Admittedly, we aren't supposed to like this Read more »| 15 Jul 2006
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MusicThe Heights - Jamaica Beer Eyes
ingeniously infectious Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
MusicThe Automatic - Not Accepted Anywhere
What's that coming over the hill? It's a blooming fine album, thank you very much. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
MusicStuart A. Staples - Leaving Songs
First single That Leaving Feeling is an invigorating push-pull duet with Lhasa de Sela Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Razorlight - In the Morning
Not really worth the effort - at any time of the day Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Paul Weller - Catch-Flame
A few crowd pleasing Jam numbers are thrown in to sweeten the deal Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Sleater-Kinney @ Oran Mor
A fantastic band who are still going strong entering into their second decade Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Echo & The Bunnymen @ Queens Hall
their relevance lies only with a pious and maturing crowd Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Love Is All - Nine Times That Same Song
In this anarchic incoherence Love Is All have created a head-fucking record of breakneck aggression. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Kieran Docherty - Expectations
Most of the tracks are frustratingly bitty Read more »| 15 Jul 2006