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 Skinny's Current Top Albums
1. Tool – '10,000 Days' (Volcano)2. De Rosa - 'Mend' (Chemikal Underground)3. Mojave 3 - 'Puzzles Like You' (4AD)4. Amusement Parks On Fire - 'Out Of Th... Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Comedy
Seymour Mace
The freakiest thing that has happened in his life is taking acid and then going shopping in the centre of Tokyo while working over there as a clown. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Comedy
Jake O'Kane
While going back on for an encore someone once shouted at him, ""Not you, the other one!""
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Comedy
Comedian's Rant - Des Clarke
Why do we have to endure Prince Charles on TV preaching about the evils of GM crops when clearly the concept of genetic inbreeding has sustained his family for generations?
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FilmPoseidon
A surprisingly brutal affair which maintains suspense well and has characters to root for Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Clubs
Hot Chip/Grosvenor, Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, May 24
they excel when they combine the huge club beats and electro revelry of Daft Punk with simple, memorable melodies and vocal mantras. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006
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Music
Echo & The Bunnymen - Scissors in the Sand
A formula which has spawned a thousand inferior schmindie facsimiles Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
Shooting at Unarmed Men - Girls Music
A straight-up Pixies soundalike Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Barrowlands
The YYY's put on a show to make their contemporaries insane with jealously Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
The Bad Plus @ Queens Hall
what they did to popular songs prompted the question of why they even bothered to write anything original Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
Josh Rouse/Strays Don't Sleep @ Queen's Hall
It's the summertime! (at least in the Queen's Hall...) Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
Hell Is For Heroes @ The Venue
Their music had a quality and intensity that set them apart Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Theatre
The Above
they would do better to not underestimate the audience and leave a few gaps for the imagination. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Clubs
Green Velvet @ UFreak, The Venue, May 20
Jones sets his Green Velvet material on a bed of dark, persistent, dirty beats Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Clubs
My Robot Friend - Dial 0
Combining a sense of novelty and disposability Read more »| 15 Jun 2006