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
Twilight Singers - A Stitch in Time EP
testimony to the fact that Twilight Singers specialise in providing drowsy narcoleptic acid jazz and straight up euphoric adrenaline shots to the heart Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Music
The Easy Gramophone ft Swan Lake
5 songs you can legally download and listen to - free Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Music
Tenacious D - Road Warriors
Authors of the greatest song in the world? Practitioners of the cock pushup? The D odyssey continues with their recently released debut film and accompanying... Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Clubs
DJ Chart: Dan Bland (Gritty Product / Radio Magnetic)
The man behind Edinburgh's Gritty Product record label, home to B-Burg, Profisee and a plethora of local hip-hop headz, and a former resident at the much-missed Solid Steel nights at the Bongo, Dan Bland gives us a top ten from his Radio Magnetic show. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Clubs
Alex Smoke vs. Tolga Fidan
Fidan carefully works his way around Smoke's delicate strings and soft woodwind refrains; burying, recovering and smothering them in shimmering cymbal breakdowns and percussive bass Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Theatre
Interview with Al Seed of The Arches
A situation that cannot be resolved or ignored: it concludes with a shrug of indifference Read more »| 12 Dec 2006
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Film
Casino Royale
The best Bond in years. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Music
Metal Up Your Ass - December, 2006
What else could Santa possibly have in his sack that beats this line-up? Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Film
Hollywood Juicer: December
Extracting the Pulp From Tinseltown's Fruit Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Music
Riders on the Storm
"You can't figure Jim out...he was a genius, but he was a troubled genius. He was so smart, but he was too smart and he didn't know what to do with it..." - Robby Krieger Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Film
Flags of Our Fathers
The lone gunman is probably Hollywood's most revered living director. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Books
Christmas is Cancelled
His nickname among his peers, 'Darwin's Rottweiler', may only be partially complimentary Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Music
The Skinny's Soundtrack to 2006
There's nothing quite like a raging brawl over what constitutes a good record to get the old adrenaline pumping at Skinny HQ: Stones or Strokes? Fantomas or Fornby? Beasties or Belafonte? Why, just the other day, the Sounds team were at it again for the simple sake of figuring out who had recorded the album of the year. You know we all emerged from the experience a physically and psychologically battered and bruised mess, but we got the results and even had a wee blether with some of the creators of the records we dug in 2006. Behold, the Skinny's second self-indulgent end of year album poll... Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Music
A Muso's Top Ten: Ben Kweller
Just before getting back to his fatherhood duties, the nicest guy in rock advised us to check out the following Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Film
Review of the Year: 2006
As film years go, it's been a pretty good one. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006