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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Theatre
Edward Scissorhands
Tim Burton doesn't automatically conjure images of swan costumes and toe shoes, but choreographer Matthew Bourne has transformed his classic film into a dance, and from London's reception of the new interpretation it looks like it was a good move. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
Sunshine Variety Club - The Girl with the Crooked Smile/Bone Idle Pop Idol
While some may refer to it as ""twee-indie-pish"", I simply can't halt my infatuation with the genre Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicHayley Hutchinson - Independently Blue
It's a song of confusion, of melancholy, but Hutchinson's friendly coo doesn't express anything but pleasantries Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicShout Out Louds- Please Please Please
You can't mistake a definite Cardigans influence to this resolutely sunny, cheerful pop song Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
The Early Years - All Ones And Zeros
Spiralling, backward guitars hitch a ride on an insistent Death in Vegas-style rhythm Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
Boy Kill Boy - Back Again
delivers a standard synth-laden indie-angst sound that falls somewhere in between Hard-Fi and ehm, Hard-Fi Read more »| 15 Feb 2006
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MusicKubb - Grow
If I was middle-aged and didn't know anything about music, I would probably think this was ace Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
Your Vegas - Flybuzz
The dubious lyrics, the sweeping guitar, the earnest falsettos - Your Vegas have it all. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
The Magic Numbers - I See You, You See Me
a big, tasteless musical stew Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
Interview - OK GO
What cost the princely sum of $24 to make and was intended as a surprise treat for fans at live shows is fast becoming a fascinating piece of music history. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
Interview - Bricolage
Bricolage, a term that means making art from whatever is in front of you, are much more than pilfering magpies Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
Rise Up - Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Jan 7
Once again, no one came close to OBE tonight. Somebody sign these lads, for god's sake Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
Interview - Robert Pollard - From a Compound Eye
Matador wanted to keep me on as a solo artist but we had a difference of opinion on a project that I later thought was silly. So I decided to go elsewhere. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
Belle and Sebastian - G2 @ Glasgow
Stuart Murdoch, a picture of airbrushed, smooth-skinned beauty, lulls the braying audience into rapt attention, Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
The Jurors - Barfly @ Glasgow
The Jurors are a band whose intensity is building like a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico, soon to strike our shores. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006