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
Rob da Bank, Fresh Air Launch, The Venue, Jan 29
Rob kept the crowd on their toes by delivering an ever eclectic sequence of songs Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
The Chalets - Theme From Chalets
...striking similarities with Paula Abdul's Opposites Attract... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
Sway @ The Liquid Room @ Edinburgh
Sway proves he possesses the showmanship to match his entrepreneurial prowess, emerging to the British national anthem and punctuating his set with an impromptu rendition of Can't Touch This. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb @ Subway Cowgate
Culminates in a human pyramid which repeatedly collapses like a soufflé Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
MusicThe Research - 'Breaking Up'
The Wakefield trio pull it off shamelessly well at times Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
The Mile End Ladies String Auxiliary - 'From Cells of Roughest Air' EP
Godspeed and Set Fire To Flames performing their apocalyptic compositions after walking home along cosmopolitan rue St-Laurent Read more »| 17 Mar 2006
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Music
Skye - 'Mind How You Go'
Skye gets personal Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
Morning Runner - Wilderness is Paradise Now
This piano changes mood like it has multiple personalities. It begins with bombastic rocky intentions, only to become all tearful and smooth. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
FBC - 'The Landing Party'
Welcome to Jazz Club, where the drinks are overpriced but the people are nice Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
MusicDilated Peoples - '20/20'
Back again is the cunningly entitled first single from Dilated Peoples' latest record '20/20' and considering the current climate in bling-loving la-la-land, thankfully it's true Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
Corinne Bailey Rae - 'Corinne Bailey Rae'
The R&B anticlimax of the season Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
Carol Laula - 'Kitchen Stories'
The songs smoothly run the gamut of emotions from A to B, but rarely stretch to C. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Clubs
Optimo meets Super Saturday, Feb 4, The Venue, Edinburgh
The lure of Optimo meets Super Saturday certainly proved to be a triumphant one for Edinburgh's Venue. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Liquid Room @ Edinburgh
I did not clap my hands. I did not say yeah. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
Flying Matchstick Men - All Your Secrets
unashamedly Scottish, unashamedly camp Read more »| 17 Mar 2006