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
Jubilee @ Barfly
Tonight, Jubilee are down and out, but they're tough enough to get back up and dust themselves down Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
Clubs
QueerMutiny, The Forest, 18 Jan
unpretentious, positive, fun and welcoming Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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Instal '08 @ The Arches
A favourite band is for life, not just for summer Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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The Von Bondies @ the New Stereo
A tight and thrilling live act. Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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Parka
Neal Parsons pulls up a stool beside the Glaswegian quartet as they stop off for a swift pint at Tut's before they descend on the rest of the UK, one city at a time Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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Phil Campbell @ King Tut's
A great talent, tragically unrecognised Read more »| 05 Feb 2008
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Music
Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong @ Cabaret Voltaire
Tonight, Joe Lean suggest the Razorlight comparisons are flattering. Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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Cold Dog Soup - The Spider and The Fly EP
Could have been a fine EP, but as it is, it barely hangs together. Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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Dropkick Murphys - The State of Massachussetts EP
Should be rousing but instead verges on cringeworthy. Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
MusicVampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Once bitten by the sound of Vampire Weekend you might find yourself forever smitten. Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
Clubs
Vex'd and Clark, Ballers Social Club, The Glasgow School of Art, 8 Feb
Chris Clark will be touting his electronic concoction of all that is crisp, acidy and thoroughly space age as the perfect airborne counterpart to Vex'd gritty subterranea Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
Clubs
Hip-hop Core Highlights
Four Corners, kinda like Headspin but with an African/Latin twist, is turning three-years-old next month, turning up the live drums and beats for another Bon... Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
Clubs
Black Pocket - Black Pocket The Album
This record represents a real challenge yet when bearable evokes relaxing late-nights in smoky sitting rooms... Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
MusicThe Boggs - Forts
An album that occasionally sounds as though he's blissfully confused the mixing desk for the drawing board. Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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Simon Breed - The Smitten King Laments
Unlike Jarvis and Bragg, he just doesn't have the tunes to pull this off. Read more »| 05 Feb 2008