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 Glasgow School
Sad news this month is the demise of ShitDisco's shitty party den Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
MusicThe Presets @ King Tut's, 6 Apr
This evening, King Tuts is sparsely populated with an assortment of waifs and strays awaiting the electro disco sleaze of The Presets, though with two EPs an... Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
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Drive By Truckers @ The Arches, 4 Apr
Within the tunnels of The Arches, Alabama's Drive-By Truckers return to Glasgow to teach their bourbon-tainted lessons of love and life. From the beginning, ... Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
MusicMen, Women & Children - 'Men, Women & Children'
What the hell happened to Glassjaw then? A few short years ago the NY quintet were turning our faces into soup with their cathartic straight-edge hardcore so... Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
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The Soul Sermon! May 2006
Keep aholda ten of your British pounds to see Azymuth at Departure Lounge on the 26th Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
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Tigerfest
2006 may be the Chinese year of the dog but here in Scotland the beginning of festival season belongs to the roar of the tiger Read more »| 16 May 2006
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MusicThe Easy Gramophone - May
5 songs you can legally download and listen to - free Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
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New Blood: The Common Redstarts
It looks like it might be time for the Common Redstarts to fly the nest Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
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Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Even in their most addled moments, Kiedis and co probably never dreamed that in the year 2006 they would have their status as one of the world's biggest bands safely in the bag Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
MusicKing Biscuit Time
"It's my job to sit here and tell people I've got a label with Alan McGee, the reality is that I haven't got a clue what that involves!" Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
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He Poos Clouds: Owen Pallett AKA Final Fantasy Interviewed
Is He Poos Clouds really about the eight Schools of magic in Dungeons & Dragons? "Okay, one Elf, a dark Elf, in the entire record." Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
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Junkbox @ Cabaret Voltaire
armed with a vicious artillery of stompy, efficient blues-punk, complete with spiky axe-attacks and slide-guitar massacres Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
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Archie Bronson Outfit @ Cabaret Voltaire
The band don't lack in terms of adrenaline Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
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The Organ - Grab That Gun
Will remind the more elderly statesman of some lost mid-eighties club night Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
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The Black Keys - Chulahoma
Orgasmic glue-tight rock n' roll, in grinding, gritty and hypnotic blues Read more »| 16 May 2006