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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MusicBon Jovi - Welcome to Wherever You Are
This record might as well be called Shut Up and Consume You Bastards Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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Son of Dork - Eddie's Song
Give me twenty minutes and I could teach a monkey to write a song that would sound like Purple Haze next to this shit Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicThe Far Cries - Stepping/The Edge
Over-cooked and hollow Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicThe Kooks - You Don't Love Me
The Kooks have been pre-ordained for big things, and this is sure to help them on their way.
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MusicNew Blood: Findo Gask
They are committed to dislocating themselves from the orthodoxies of the three piece, absorbing new instruments voraciously into their elaborate live set up, each one adding another sweetening dimension. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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Mogwai Unleash The Beast
The band, sick with nerves in the studio for the first time, solved the problem by stripping naked, whacking a few Mitsubishis and forming a supportive circle in the toilets. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006
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The Strokes Emerge from the Woods
while the hype merchants in the media have moved on to fresh meat to pollute, the world seems just about ready to clutch Casablancas and co to their bosom once again Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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The Cribs
This will be a decisive year for The Cribs to prove they are greater than the sum of their influences. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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The Acute
"We're the most beautiful thing in Scotland today because we are so fucking honest and true in what we do!" Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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Interview - Broken Social Scene
"We do something that's very beautiful and serious ... but we don't take it too seriously." Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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Live Music Roundup - February
Warped Detroit visionaries ADULT. are the soundtrack to your most beautiful, paranoid fantasies. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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North Country
The pain of the story, and the frankness and warmth of its telling are strengthening somehow. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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Pop Up @ 13th Note, 12 Jan
Pop Up combine showmanship with idiosyncratic innovation wrapped around a cool crispy centre Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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Herman Düne @ Mono, 12 Jan
We dance, we nod, we think of our silly lives Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicPanic! At The Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
Like that friend of a friend you're a bit ambivalent about, but the more they hang around, the more you like them Read more »| 15 Feb 2006