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
The Wedding Present @ Glasgow ABC
The impressiveness of his back catalogue is revealed, but it's no revelation Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
MusicTV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
Electro-gospel guerrilla warfare Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
FilmRV - Runaway Vacation
Another uninspired Robin Williams vehicle Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Funeral For A Friend and Fightstar @ Corn Exchange
Fizzing but formulaic. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Fink: A DJ Changes Track
swap the wheels of steel and the adoration of the club crowd for a guitar and some 'songs'?
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Stuart A. Staples - That Leaving Feeling
combines hushed strumming and intimate piano with some swaggeringly grand orchestral arrangements Read more »| 15 Jul 2006
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Josh Ritter - Egyptian Lillian
A tender triumph of countrified folk and heartening lyricism Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Liam Frost and the Slowdown Family @ Cabaret Voltaire
Frost's storyboard of childhood trauma and adolescent anguish is unveiled in all its glory. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Jim Noir @ The Venue
A glorious concoction of wind swept vocals and buttercup melodies Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Humanzi @ Cabaret Voltaire
the result never came across as schizoid but as a tight and volatile display of how you never need to write the same song twice Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Young Stanley - Sing It For England
Admittedly, we aren't supposed to like this Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
MusicThe Heights - Jamaica Beer Eyes
ingeniously infectious Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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The Automatic - Not Accepted Anywhere
What's that coming over the hill? It's a blooming fine album, thank you very much. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Stuart A. Staples - Leaving Songs
First single That Leaving Feeling is an invigorating push-pull duet with Lhasa de Sela Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
MusicRazorlight - In the Morning
Not really worth the effort - at any time of the day Read more »| 15 Jul 2006