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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Music
Sway @ The Liquid Room @ Edinburgh
Sway proves he possesses the showmanship to match his entrepreneurial prowess, emerging to the British national anthem and punctuating his set with an impromptu rendition of Can't Touch This. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb @ Subway Cowgate
Culminates in a human pyramid which repeatedly collapses like a soufflé Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
MusicThe Research - 'Breaking Up'
The Wakefield trio pull it off shamelessly well at times Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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The Mile End Ladies String Auxiliary - 'From Cells of Roughest Air' EP
Godspeed and Set Fire To Flames performing their apocalyptic compositions after walking home along cosmopolitan rue St-Laurent Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
MusicSkye - 'Mind How You Go'
Skye gets personal Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Morning Runner - Wilderness is Paradise Now
This piano changes mood like it has multiple personalities. It begins with bombastic rocky intentions, only to become all tearful and smooth. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006
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FBC - 'The Landing Party'
Welcome to Jazz Club, where the drinks are overpriced but the people are nice Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
MusicDilated Peoples - '20/20'
Back again is the cunningly entitled first single from Dilated Peoples' latest record '20/20' and considering the current climate in bling-loving la-la-land, thankfully it's true Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
MusicCorinne Bailey Rae - 'Corinne Bailey Rae'
The R&B anticlimax of the season Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Carol Laula - 'Kitchen Stories'
The songs smoothly run the gamut of emotions from A to B, but rarely stretch to C. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Clubs
Optimo meets Super Saturday, Feb 4, The Venue, Edinburgh
The lure of Optimo meets Super Saturday certainly proved to be a triumphant one for Edinburgh's Venue. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Liquid Room @ Edinburgh
I did not clap my hands. I did not say yeah. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
Flying Matchstick Men - All Your Secrets
unashamedly Scottish, unashamedly camp Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
Buzzcocks - Wish I Never Loved You
by stubbornly sticking to a tired formula the Buzzcocks have only highlighted their own irrelevance.
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Music
Various - 'Walk the Line OST'
The world needs many things right now. What it does not require are characterless versions of Folsom Prison Blues, Ring of Fire, and I Walk the Line Read more »| 17 Mar 2006