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
Krust - Hidden Knowledge
Krust's new album 'Hidden Knowledge' is nothing less than excellent Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
ClubsOchre - Lemodie
A beautifully constructed piece that brings the worlds of classical and ambient music successfully together Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Music
Gossip - Listen Up! Single Review by Melissa Thompson
if you really want to be an electro band it's okay, just be an electro band Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
MusicY'All is Fantasy Island - In Faceless Towns Forever
Free from all the machinations and pretensions of the music industry Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
MusicNeedles - Dianne
This is exuberant pop from a band clearly in love with the Ramones' three-chord headlong rushes Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Music
Deftones / Shutter / You Already Know @ Glasgow Academy, 8 June
The intense progressive leanings of home-grown quartet Shutter and the percussive Gang of Four-infused dynamics of Glaswegian rockers You Already Know perfec... Read more »| 15 Jul 2006
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Music
A Silver Mt. Zion @ ABC, 1 Jun
this ran the gamut of everything a gig can be Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Film
The Omen
Nothing special, but effectively executed (no pun intended) Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Music
De Rosa - Camera
I'd like some more time with De Rosa Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Music
Robin Guthrie @ Cameo Cinema, 3 Jun
fashions lasting impressions of an experience of heaven Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Music
Fuck-Off Machete / De Rosa / Paul Research / Rieser @ Swamp Bar @ Edinburgh
F.O. Machete close the evening on top form, delivering a typically blistering half-hour of serrating, sandblasting belters. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Music
Spare Snare - Sort It For Afterwards
Spare Snare will go elsewhere for their next gig Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Music
Isobel Campbell @ The Liquid Room. 30 May
Not often can the countrified laments of Northwest America and the majestic balladry of central Scotland appear quite so compatible as they do here tonight Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Art
Helen van Meene
The emotional spectrum runs from unsettling to downright creepy Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Art
Dada's Boys
The notion of questioned male identity is reflected in the works by the frankly stellar array of contemporary artists Read more »| 15 Jul 2006