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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Just a Vad
Leader: The Skinny caught up with Russian-born workaholic DJ and producer Vadim, when he came into town to support local hip-hop seedling superstars, The Underling, in the subterranean caves beneath Edinburgh.
Pull Quote: ""People will not be buying CDs in 5 years time, I'll eat my hat if they are.""
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Bringdaruckus Hip-hop Highlights
Welcome back to another roundup of hip-hop news and views brought to you by The Skinny in association with bringdaruckus.com, Scotland's only dedicated website for Scottish hip-hop. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Music
Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Weird Science
Strikes into you with the venom of an acid-spitting python... Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
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Scouting For Girls - It's Not About You
Get out and save the world - it needs you a lot more than you need this. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
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Secta Rouge - Pathologica Fantastica EP
An incredibly erratic polyrhythmic mosh pit Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
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Sinead O'Connor - Theology
Thematically tiresome - it's inherently difficult to buy into something so personal. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007
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Summercase Preview
Summercase is a nocturnal beast, rising at 6pm only to collapse in a blissful stupor a full 12 hours later. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
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Indian Summer Preview
This is a festival devoted to putting a smile on your face and the sumptuous sound of music in your ears. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Art
Degree Shows preview
For the students, it's a time of abject terror, teetotalism, and the realisation that four years of 'work' has to be compressed into the space of two weeks and then presented to the public Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
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Amazing Rare Things
showcases the work of men and women whose artistic investigations played an important role in the advancement of our species' understanding of the world around us Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
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Post-Heroic Societies In The Long Shadow Of War
The artworks never manage to find themselves and in their layered imagery the viewer becomes lost Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
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Peter Jaques: Babble
Jaques' work takes the traditional process of photography into an interesting and innovative direction Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
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Force
We are told that this is influenced by the equine portraits of George Stubbs, which of course, is true, in the sense that there are horses in it.
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Golden Bug - Barbie's Back
It's like Robyn if she wasn't so pleasantly pop, or Princess Superstar if she was less verbose and hung out with dorkier boys Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
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Pink Punk - One More Remix
Drum 'n' bass with a message; not everyone's cup of tea, but not a complete disaster Read more »| 10 Jun 2007