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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ClubsThe Chemical Brothers - Do It Again
An unbeatable summer smash Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Music
New Blood: Little Doses
It's ex-Degrassi meets ex-Degrassi as Sans Trauma singer and guitarist Chris Bathgate checks in with his former associate Michael Branagh's new band, Little Doses Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
MusicA Weekend In The Country with Bloc Party
"There's something bloody marvellous about Morris Dancing, Nigel Mansell as well." Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Music
Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
Pulling themselves back into line with a predominantly outstanding legacy. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
MusicFrank Black - 93-03
As an introduction to a nine-album solo career so far, it feels relatively honed. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Clubs
Rubens - Carnivalesque
The worst elements of the early 1990s fashioned into an hour's worth of beeping noises Read more »| 10 Jul 2007
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Music
Garbage - Tell Me Where It Hurts
Make it stop. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Music
Ocean Colour Scene - On the Ley Line
Full of busker-friendly acoustic guitar melodies and carefully orchestrated vocal harmonies. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Comedy
Teddy on the Tube
He either looks like a really fucked version of a super-fit person, or a super-fit version of a really fucked person. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Books
The End Of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas
A hugely playful novel, tripping over itself with name-dropping and then theory-dropping. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Music
Elvis Perkins - All The Night Without Love
There's a new Elvis in town. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Music
Edinburgh Under Surveillance: July
There's enough gold in them there venues to keep things ticking over nicely Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Music
A Muso's Top Ten: The Horrors
If Spider's enthusiasm is anything to go by, he must be seriously feeling these melodies... Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Music
VERSAcoustic @ The Bongo Club
The perfect antidote to the excesses of the night before. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Music
Strike The Colours - The Face That Sunk A Thousand Ships
A captivating saunter into a world of soul-pondering and organic songwriting Read more »| 10 Jul 2007