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
Plastic Operator - Peppermint EP
This track beautifully crafts an almost hypnotic soundscape in which gentle breakbeats mingle with Germanic vocals and the gentle twang of acoustic guitars Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Clubs
Snax - Honeymoon's Over
it's an era they're not so much redefining as mining, but they do it well, and they certainly make you want to shake your retro thang Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
ClubsThe Tigerpicks - Electro Funk Disco Punk
The debut single from the Manchester threesome is generic nu-rave by numbers Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Music
Roskilde
Read on and believe. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Music
Biffy Clyro - Next? The World!
We don't walk about in kilts or anything, but we love where we're from... - Ben Johnston Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Music
The Primary 5 @ Cabaret Voltaire
It might be 2007 but with the sound of The Primary 5 and The Fast Camels, tonight feels like a return to the swinging sixties. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007
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Film
The Tiger's Tail - Kim Cattrall Q&A
When you see a John Boorman film you know that no-one else could have made that film Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Film
The Tiger's Tail - John Boorman Q&A
When the film opened in Ireland it became hugely controversial, people were upset Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Film
The Tiger's Tail - Brendan Gleeson Q&A
We have stuffed ourselves at the party and now we have cake sickness Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Music
Smashing Pumpkins - Tarantula
the Pumpkins are back and they're ready to kick everyone's ass all over again Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Art
Aernout Mik - Shifting Shifting
this work is loaded with a fractal complexity, one meaning shifting into another and then shifting again Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Art
Paul Ryding - Hard Pencil
when Ryding's work is illuminated by a computer screen, the full impact becomes clearer Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Art
Max Ernst - La Ballade du Soldat
another fine investigation of the relationship between literature and fine art Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
MusicCold War Kids - Hang Me Up To Dry
Surging, blues-rock. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Music
Built To Spill - You In Reverse
A solid mesh of dreamlike sound. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007