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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The Hours - Back When You Were Good
Ali In The Jungle', only with the tempo dial turned well towards ""ballad"" Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
MusicThe Good, The Bad And The Queen - Kingdom of Doom
synths float through drifting guitars that borrow heavily from Simon Tong's old band mate, Nick McCabe. Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Spider Simpson - Heavy Metal Machine
The fact that Spider Simpson fit so much plagiarism into one coherent song is an achievement in itself. Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Rob McCulloch - Six of One
Six too many? Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Little Barrie - Pin That Badge
A mangled disparity of style. Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Little Barrie - Love You
caught between breathless enthusiasm and insinuating sensuality Read more »| 10 Feb 2007
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Just Jack - Starz In Their Eyes
teenage rhymes, poppy dance beats and crass social commentary: over-produced, manufactured agit-prop Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Household - 20/20
Music teeming with youthful exuberance and brusque ennui in equal measure Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Dirty Fuzz - Tell Your Mama
a mediocre rocker is reduced to a passionless parody Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
MusicDan Sartain - Flight of the Finch
Sartain creates a pastiche of melodramatic balladry without crass parody, sounding simultaneously knowing and involved Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Assembly Now - Leigh On Sea
fails to inject much urgency, originality or imagination into short bursts of energy Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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James Brown - An Obituary
Arguably the single most influential musician of the 20th Century, James Brown couldn't read music or understand concepts like time signatures, scales and chord changes. Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
MusicThe Electric Cinema - The Electric Cinema
an invite to a world of tuneful sincerity Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
MusicNat Baldwin - Lights Out
plaintive singing contrasts eloquently with the staccato bass Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
MusicLittle Barrie — Stand Your Ground
a delicate and eminently listenable meshing of dynamics Read more »| 10 Feb 2007