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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MusicJuliette and the Licks - Sticky Honey
the riffs promote more of a skip than a swagger Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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I Was A Cub Scout - Pink Squares / Teenage Skin
I Was A Cub Scout may use keyboards, but their inexperience of electronica shows. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Good Shoes - The Pictures On My Wall
Sounding a little too much like The Cure when they thought they were a pop band. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Kiddo - 135 Days EP
Kiddo create their own sound, built up from the dilettantish rhythms that seep into the lead guitar lines. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
MusicMuse - Knights of Cydonia
...more gloriously unashamed pomp and circumstance than a Queen convention Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Paramore - Pressure
Insignificantly different to Avril [Lavigne]'s 'My Happy Ending'. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006
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Tiny Dancers - Lions and Tigers and Lions EP
Lions and Tigers and Lions remains scattered and never leaves enough of a feel of what Tiny Dancers actually sound like. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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The Hours - Ali In The Jungle
The days spent touring with Joe Strummer's Mescaleros shows strongly. So do the pop influences of mid-90s Pulp. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
MusicTwisted Charm - Boring Lifestyles
Boring Lifestyles' is just boring. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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But Tickets Now: Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, QMU, Glasgow, 21 Jan
Stick around long enough and you might even get to buy him a pint. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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The Longcut - No Shortcuts to Success
We'd rather just stay in our little comfort zone of Manchester than spending three nights out a week in London bullshitting with journalists. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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TV On The Radio @ ABC
a spectrum of avant-garde jazz and distorted funk freak outs Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
MusicThe Ordinary Boys - How To Get Everything You Ever Wanted In Ten Easy Steps
a tragically limp record determined to ride the crest of an opportunist wave Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Tapes 'n Tapes @ The Liquid Room
Tapes 'n Tapes' contained virtuosity is a sight (and sound) to behold Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Rancid @ Studio 24 Edinburgh
It was Rancid: if you like them it was awesome. If you dont, well... you suck Read more »| 12 Dec 2006