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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ComedyStewart Lee - The March of the Mallards
This show could prove controversial enough to drive Lee's career further into commercial non-viability. Or it may just be a show about ducks.
Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
MusicThis Is Music @ Henry's Cellar Bar, 25 Jan
O.B.E. come out all guns blazing, a funk foursome on fast-forward. Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Ray LaMontagne @ SECC, 22 Jan
Ray LaMontagne gigs on a Monday night, let it be said, are a good thing. Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
MusicGrinderman - Grinderman
The wailing cry of love bludgeoned by vitriolic distortion Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
Comedy
Stars - March 2007
Pisces Give 'em an inch, they take a mile. Give 'em your kidney and they start singing A-ha's Take on Me in public. This month: hell is other folks.Aries O... Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Hot Rocks
This group show is a great insight into current artistic practices over a broad range of backgrounds Read more »| 12 Mar 2007
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Art
Charlie Hammond
the blending of childlike
innocence and the corruption of knowledge adds a biblical edge to the work Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
Art
The Metal Bridge
there is a great sense of discovery within this exhibition Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Karena Nomi - Losing Momentum
This show is quiet and understated Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Lorna MacIntyre
This body of work give us sketches of the artist's ideas but is too fragmented to stand alone Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Jamie Shovlin: Aggregate
The artist is playing a game of solitaire and does not seem too keen to let anyone else join in Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
Music
Fall Out Boy @ The Garage
Even the sturdy brick walls of The Garage creak under the strain Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
Music
The Earlies - The Enemy Chorus
If it was a little more original then it'd be a great record Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Cold War Kids - Robbers and Cowards
Less Reagan-era missile crisis and more moralistic tales Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Music
Various - ShockRock
Down on Yourself' rocks, but this is countered by an inferior version of 'NY Excuse' Read more »| 10 Feb 2007