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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Planning To Rock - 'Have It All'
an electro rendition of an orchestra pit warming up Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
MusicKT Tunstall - Acoustic Extravaganza
a collection of new songs and re-interpretations of her masterworks Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
MusicImperial Vipers - Searching, Falling, Silence
this is cucumber-in-foil, tight leather trouser rock Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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T-Break Heat 3 @ The Liquid Room
Sergeant brought a summery sound that would be perfectly suited to an outdoor festival stage in July Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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T-Break Heat 1 @ The Liquid Room
Found's imagination should provide Tennents with its first shoe-in for their to-be-filled festival stage Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Eric Clapton @ SECC
sit back, dust off your cream chinos and enjoy the ride Read more »| 15 Jun 2006
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Dr John @ Usher Hall
the Crescent City loomed large during the Doctor's show Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Big Hand @ The Bongo Club
some full on skanking action was required Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Ugly Duckling and Giant Panda @ The Liquid Room
The 'Duckling leave a crowd yearning for the sensation of what ""The Day"" must have felt like, once upon a rhyme Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Queen Monica plus guests @ The Swamp Bar @ Caledonian Backpackers
a country-soaked ménage of magnetic melody, sumptuous song-writing and dreary detachment Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
MusicStarsailor - Keep Us Together
hardly groundbreaking stuff from the former ""next big things"" but that's not to say it won't get your toe tapping Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
MusicLiam Frost and The Slowdown Family - The Mourners of St Paul's
Frost and co have jammed the repeat button Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Tarwater & Tape @ Mono
Tape - the sublime Swedes who hushed the whole venue to absolute silence Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Wolf Eyes @ The Venue
harsh, intense music, made all the more nightmarish by Nate Young's screeching vocals Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Miss Black America @ The Swamp @ Caledonian Backpackers
they played with ferocious intensity, but failed to set passions blazing in the hearts of the crowd Read more »| 15 Jun 2006