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
Hell Is For Heroes, Westport Bar, Dundee, 26 Oct
Playing to their strengths when on a sticky stage Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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The Coral, ABC, Glasgow, 20 Oct
We're lucky to still have these Scouse scallywags around at all Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Music
The Decemberists @ Carling Academy
Granted, they're a bit nuts on record, which translates to 'should I alert a care home?' onstage, but Christ, they're entertaining. Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Kyte - Planet
Everybody's doing a brand new dance now… Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Music
Robots In Disguise - The Sex Has Made Me Stupid
Sets your pulse racing and your hips gyrating Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Music
Paperlung - Balance
By trying to play it safe, Paperlung have fallen flat on their faces Read more »| 08 Oct 2007
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Music
iLiKETRAiNS - Elegies To Lessons Learnt
Imagine The Smiths and Explosions In The Sky cramming in some last minute history revision. Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Film
The Counterfeiters
An outstanding German drama Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Theatre
Yellow Moon: The Ballad of Leila and Lee
more bravado than balls, more instinct than intelligence Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Film
And When Did You Last See Your Father?
Never as moving as it wants to be Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Clubs
Rodion - Tu Mi Turbi
Via Lactea even sees Rodion throwing in Balearic keys to counterpoint a hefty organic bass, before building into another computer-game breakdown Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Mathias Kaden - Myal EP
Three tracks laden with simplistic tribal beats
BACK TO ED - QUOTATION NOT ATTRIBUTED Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Golden Bug - We Love Tokio/Horses
The song rolls, building and falling as the Prince-like vocal style, continued references to working girls and Bug's trademark vocal tampering combine to make the track jar in your mind Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Azzido da Bass feat. Adrian Holtz - So Wrong
This is something of a new direction for da Bass Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Clubs
Cobblestone Jazz: Rounded Techno
SF: As the backlash against the minimal techno sound gathers pace, the productions of Cobblestone Jazz have offered a warmer, analogue alternative to their more digital-driven counterparts. The Skinny investigates.
PQ: ""The three of us, we're playing analogue instruments, mixing it all live; in some ways this can make it sound raw, more human"". Read more »| 08 Oct 2007