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
Tetine - Let Your Xs Be Ys
Following the success of Bonde de Role and CSS, Tetine may seem mere bandwagon-jumpers in regards to the baile funk scene, but this is in fact their eighth a... Read more »| 22 May 2008 -
Music
Dancing Mice - Eroded
A more entertaining listen than first impressions suggest Read more »| 22 May 2008 -
FilmUniversal Cinema Classics: Marx Brothers
Animal Crackers (1930), Monkey Business (1931), Horse Feathers (1932), Duck Soup (1933) Read more »| 22 May 2008 -
Music
YIFI's Weird Weekends
Ally Brown talks to Adam Stafford of Y'All Is Fantasy Island, the Falkirk group whose second album Rescue Weekend was our Album Of The Month last issue Read more »| 22 May 2008 -
MusicJens Lekman @ Oran Mor, 15 May
Possibly the most palatable contemporary male performer plying his trade today Read more »| 22 May 2008 -
Music
HEALTH @ The Captain's Rest, 10 May
After 20 minutes of zig-zagging riffs, things get a little dull Read more »| 22 May 2008
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Music
The Star Fighter Pilot - Kingdom Hearts EP
What this disc does have going for it is its brevity – no track overstays its welcome Read more »| 22 May 2008 -
Clubs
The Body Snatchers - Feeling Good, Looking Nice, Smelling Right
Not taking yourself too seriously can lead to wacky and wondrous things, and such is the case with The Body Snatchers' Feeling Good, Looking Nice, Smelling R... Read more »| 22 May 2008 -
BooksFreddie and Me by Mike Dawson
Everybody knows it’s not cool to be a Queen fan. Mike Dawson knows this, and he’s written a whole book about it. Specifically, an autobiographica... Read more »| 22 May 2008 -
Music
Shearwater - Rook
A good cry waiting to happen Read more »| 22 May 2008 -
Music
Broadway Calls - “Broadway Calls”
Adept pop-punk Read more »| 22 May 2008 -
Music
Born Ruffians - Red, Yellow and Blue
Manages to retain an edge of musical ingenuity Read more »| 22 May 2008 -
Books
A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
A Case of Exploding Mangoes is a ‘factional’ story based around the mysterious 1988 crash of a Hercules, which carried General Zia, Pakistani dic... Read more »| 22 May 2008 -
MusicOrkestra Del Sol @ Queen's Hall
Roll up roll up, indeed. Read more »| 22 May 2008 -
Music
The Mae Shi @ Cabaret Voltaire, 18 May
You haven't really experienced unhinged spaz-rock until you've seen The Mae Shi Read more »| 22 May 2008