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
Mark E @ Dance! Dance! Dance!, Twisted Wheel, Glasgow, 11 Jul
The Jisco! head will definitely make you Dance! Dance! Dance! Read more »| 30 Jun 2008 -
MusicJames Blunt - I Really Want You
The use of ‘really’ in song lyrics is almost always redundant. Ray Davies pulled it off in You Really Got Me, because the next line is ‘you... Read more »| 30 Jun 2008 -
BooksRodge Glass: One to Watch
Or, how to write a second novel whilst nearly losing your mind in the process. Read more »| 29 Jun 2008 -
TheatreFeast @ Arta
Food and theatre are the perfect partners: a new company brings them together. Read more »| 28 Jun 2008 -
Music
Izzie Voodoo – The Push (Basilica Music)
Music for the internet generation. This really should be circulated on teenage MySpaces, where I'd never have to listen to it. To be fair the industro-rock i... Read more »| 28 Jun 2008 -
Music
Dananananaykroyd Canananananyfail
They may claim to produce 'Idiot Rock Music', but when Billy Hamilton catches up with Dananananaykroyd's Calum Gunn he finds an ambition to conquer Eurovision lurking beneath their ear-piercing sounds Read more »| 27 Jun 2008
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Music
Atmosphere @ Voodoo Rooms, 17 Jun
Atmosphere may never own a private jet, but they'll never want for a place to crash Read more »| 27 Jun 2008 -
Music
Trentemöller - Live in Concert EP (Poker Flat)
Taken from last year’s Roskilde festival performance, this 4-track EP captures perfectly the energy of the band’s live performances. Take Me Into... Read more »| 27 Jun 2008 -
Music
Ironik - Stay With Me
Stay With Me magically sounds as though it was thrown together in a matter of seconds. This translates as a sense of spontaneity and imbues the vocals with a... Read more »| 27 Jun 2008 -
Music
Kidz In The Hall - The In Crowd
Kidz In The Hall’s sophomore effort, The In Crowd, combines a broad palette of sounds that will please even the pickiest headz out there. Thirteen out ... Read more »| 27 Jun 2008 -
Music
Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing
Mixtapes are changing the game in hip-hop, and Wale's new one is up there with the very best Read more »| 27 Jun 2008 -
Clubs
Numbers 5th Birthday @ Sub Club, Glasgow, 4 Jul
Situated in the basement of a curry house, it's the perfect venue for the residents’ spicy, grimey fusion of bass-banging techno and booty-bumping hip-hop Read more »| 27 Jun 2008 -
Music
Lyrics Born: Can't Touch This
Tom "Lyrics Born" Shimura is a phenomenal rapper; a graduate from DJ Shadow's crate dug Quannum collective and a tireless collaborator, his recorded work has literally taken him from London to the Bay. James Blake speaks to a man who does not mince his words Read more »| 26 Jun 2008 -
Music
Duty Free @ Cabaret Voltaire, July
Save your tenners for the Fringe and discover your new favourite band at the Cabaret Voltaire in July Read more »| 26 Jun 2008 -
Music
A Muso's Top 10: Tricky
The ever-rasping Tricky Kid marks his return with a rediscovery of his musical heritage called Knowle West Boy this month (see our review in Records). We recently gave the dark prince of trip-hop a tinkle while he was preparing to seep under the door in gaseous cloud form, to ask which tunes would get him most juiced if he were to find himself in a training montage situation. Read more »| 26 Jun 2008