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 Grim Northern Social - Connected
conjures up thoughts of those sweaty tents and warm beers of the forthcoming festival season Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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The Bees - Octopus
mercifully, our fretting proved unfounded Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Tiny Dancers - I Will Wait For You
it's too easy to roll over and become enveloped in a duvet of jangly guitar Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Capdown - Surviving The Death of a Genre/Trick Me
Refreshing, yet not completely unfriendly to Scream bar jukebox rotation. Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Tokyo Police Club @ Nice 'N Sleazy's
frantic soundtrack of a post-apocalyptic society in distress Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Jesse Malin - Glitter In The Gutter
A good solid record that does exactly what you'd expect from Jesse and his buddies Read more »| 12 Mar 2007
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Books
Creative Writing: Poems by Stephen Dent
[title] clyde rarely shimmeringdiscarded browna purple bridgeonce crossedunloved townfound, then lost clydeits pridewaningits swirling stomach churnsbarely ... Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Books at the Buddha
Shopping for a cool new personality need not be a massive chore Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
Alaa Al Aswany's novel has become a bestseller in the Middle East and earned enthusiastic comparisons to Tales of the City. Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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The Song Before It Is Sung by Justin Cartwright
Enough moments of sheer suspense and bravado to be accessible to pretty much anyone. Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Straight Ahead by Clare Shaw
Shaw's work hits - and bruises - with a deliberate candour Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
It's East-meets-West time, kids. Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Imposture by Benjamin Markovits
Markovits and his Polidori would have done well emulating Byron's more direct nature Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Globe by Michael O'Siadhail
A good place to find powerful and positive poetry Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
Music
Saxon - The Inner Sanctum
Is there any other genre so ridiculous that gets taken so seriously? Read more »| 12 Mar 2007