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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MusicLove Is All - Busy Doing Nothing
A spot-on impression of a particularly raucus, guitar-weilding disco outfit Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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The Kooks - She Moves in Her Own Way
a veritable Frankenstein's monster stitch-up Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
MusicThe Research - The Hard Times
Like one of the better Nick Hornby novels in song form Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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The Noisettes - Scratch Your Name
they never quite manage to make the artistic leap from sounding competent to actually delivering something you could fall in love with Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Ween - Gabrielle
the perfect song with which to celebrate the start of summer Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Graham Coxon - You & I
The most grown-up single he's done? Maybe, but never fear, it's still got its scruffy edges Read more »| 15 Jul 2006
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Down the Tiny Steps - Aye Spy
They have the enviable backing of the Fence collective Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
MusicDirty Pretty Things - Deadwood
Carl Barat may be branching out with Dirty Pretty Things but all he's uncovered is rotting deadwood Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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1990's - You Made Me Like It
...and i thought the 1980s was the decade music forgot... Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Tunng - Comments Of The Inner Chorus
If British folksong had started out this boring, no one would have bothered to teach it to their kids Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Thursday - A City By The Light Divided
Best left to angry grounded teenagers Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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The Divine Comedy - Victory for the Comic Muse
A classy offering from a classy songwriter Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Shooting at Unarmed Men - Yes! Tinnitus!
The overall impression is something akin to a punk rock 'Weekend at Bernie's' Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Jack Adaptor - 'Road Rail River'
Broken Talk is a rare highlight in an otherwise mediocre album Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Ian Love - 'Ian Love'
They're just the thing to carry you through a night already too full with feeling
Read more »| 15 Jul 2006