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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Books
Ismail Kadare - The Successor
An atmospheric, gripping mystery, infused with awareness of the place and its people. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Clubs
The Beautiful Newborn Children, Dffrnt Trouble, Cabaret Voltaire, Jan 20
Packed to the gunnels with Kerosene and angst
WEB ONLY - asap please alex! Thanks Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Clubs
Olav Basoski, Progression at Liquid Rooms Edinburgh, Jan 28
Tonight proved to have a frighteningly effective result on the shape-throwing punters
WEB ONLY pls alex, up as soon as you can
Thanks
Bram Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicInfrasound - 'Out Of Order'
An odious stench of plagiarism percolates through every track. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicBe your own Pet - Let's Get Sandy
leaves you quite bored àquite a fete for a tune that only lasts for a minute Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
Straight Outta Pomp-town (Edinburgh Live Music column)
Straight Outta Pomp-townWe tireless tubes at The Skinny unflinchingly embrace the challenge to cover a huge slice of the broad spectrum of music that both Ed... Read more »| 15 Feb 2006
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Music
Mother and The Addicts @ Cabaret Voltaire 20th January
the fans will have been nursing their collective broken feet to match their pounding cranium Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
Fall Out Boy - Barrowlands @ Glasgow
FoB's onstage presence is quite enough to make it all look so easy Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
The Glasgow School (Live Music Column)
This is a new column designed to cover the best in music, upcoming events, gossips and releases from the hottest bands in Glasgow. It needs your help, so get... Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
Tyrant Lizard Kings - Attack of The Tyrant Lizard Kings
blare this LP until your eardrums burst Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicSine Star Project - Blue Born Earth Boy
An unquestionably talented band has created 'Blue Born Earth Boy' - it's a shame musical narcissism has ruined it Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicFallout Trust - 'In Case of the Flood'
No chance of the levees being breached just yet... Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicMinus 5 - Minus 5
Minus 5 a side project? You do the maths... Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Art
The National Review of Live Art
Examine the body, its excretions, malfunctions, colour or form, and you examine society itself. Written on the body are grand narratives of gender, differenc... Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Art
Luke Fowler
The worn view of documentary film making - a stubbornly objective camera, impassively recording events in front of it - is massively subverted in Luke Fowler... Read more »| 15 Feb 2006