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
Assembly Now - Leigh On Sea
fails to inject much urgency, originality or imagination into short bursts of energy Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Music
James Brown - An Obituary
Arguably the single most influential musician of the 20th Century, James Brown couldn't read music or understand concepts like time signatures, scales and chord changes. Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
MusicThe Electric Cinema - The Electric Cinema
an invite to a world of tuneful sincerity Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
MusicNat Baldwin - Lights Out
plaintive singing contrasts eloquently with the staccato bass Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Music
Little Barrie — Stand Your Ground
a delicate and eminently listenable meshing of dynamics Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Music
Husky Rescue - Ghost is Not Real
Who let the dogs out? Read more »| 10 Feb 2007
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Music
Aereogramme - My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go
a prime example of the great heights that a little longevity can take you to Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Film
Flags of our Fathers
A dead cert for Oscar season, and deservedly so. Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Clubs
The Roots, Carling Academy, 17 Dec
if only they'd dig a little further into their own back catalogue rather than that of an entire genre Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Music
Rock'n'Roll Wedding @ The Bongo Club
The Alvas veered into Kenny Rogers territory and ran out of gas, pushing an old clunker over state lines Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Clubs
Top 6 Nights in Edinburgh and Glasgow
Top 6 GlasgowJohnny Violence, Digital Harlot's Violent Valentine Masquerade, Strathclyde Uni Student Union, Feb 10It's a romantic 'pimps n'Ho's' theme at Dig... Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Clubs
House of Techno February 2007
Early on Rob Da Bank is heading back to the Capital on Feb 2 with Paddy Freeform (Bestival FM) and Surface EMP at Trouble (Cabaret Voltaire) - eclectic house... Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
ClubsConversations with christ.
Scotland's leading ambient artist christ. talks to Bram Gieben about why he isn't taking the Lord's name in vain, and gives us the skinny on his new LP. Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
ComedyRicky Gervais: Fame, Festival Theatre, 17 Jan
Gervais uses the moniker of 'Fame' as mere distraction while he danders around the more familiar terrain of political correctness gone apeshit Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Clubs
No Model, No Tool - Luciano (Cadenza)
Re-inventing the 'DJ Tools' notion, Cadenza launch their Split Composition series; a challenge to DJs to create new sounds and images from stripped down basics Read more »| 10 Feb 2007