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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Clubs
The Hacker @ Access, Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, July 7
The fantastic grooves turned in by the residents just go to show that there's more to the clubbing experience than the big names.
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Clubs
The Dark Craftsmen - No Shadow On Your Sundial
For all the promised violence, it is hard not to laugh at MC Tekneek, mainly because of the lack of humour in the violence he portrays. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Clubs
Spank Rock - Couche Tard/YoYoYoYoYo Instrumentals
A staggeringly diverse cut and paste display of decksmanship from xxxChange DJs Donnie Darko and Christopher Rockswell Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
ClubsOtto Von Schirach - MaxiPad Detention
There is some appeal in playing these tunes at ear-bleeding volume, but 'MaxiPad Detention' is less than the sum of its parts. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
MusicWooden Wand - Harem of the Sundrum and the Witness Figg
a mystic voyage, albeit a relatively low-key one Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
MusicViva Voce - Get Yr Blood Sucked Out
a stoner's paradise of retro fuzz Read more »| 14 Aug 2006
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MusicThe Webb Sisters - Daylight Crossing
Daylight Crossing is so sanitised and inoffensive that its only humane use is presumably as on-hold music for call centres Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
The Upper Room - Other People's Problems
The eighties - just as good as they ever were Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Burn, Don't Freeze: The End of Sleater-Kinney? (Web only)
this felt like a beginning, not an end Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Bonnie Prince Billy - Cursed Sleep
It's Bonnie Prince Billy gone... sexy! Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Bonobo - Nightlife
An absolute delight: a tight, subtly infectious bossa nova beat and gently rising strings Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Clearlake - It's Getting Light Outside
Emotionally mature rockers walk down memory lane Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Denied Sons of Iglesias - Brand New Way of Thinking
supplements a reputation starting to grow among gig goers but fails to really set the heather alight Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Goose - Black Gloves
Black Gloves aims for angular, floor-filling credibility but is just too blatant for its own good Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Music
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Tell Me Baby
Tell Me Baby is an upbeat little number that may well ingratiate itself on your eardrums Read more »| 14 Aug 2006