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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MusicY'All is Fantasy Island - In Faceless Towns Forever
Free from all the machinations and pretensions of the music industry Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
MusicNeedles - Dianne
This is exuberant pop from a band clearly in love with the Ramones' three-chord headlong rushes Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Deftones / Shutter / You Already Know @ Glasgow Academy, 8 June
The intense progressive leanings of home-grown quartet Shutter and the percussive Gang of Four-infused dynamics of Glaswegian rockers You Already Know perfec... Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
MusicA Silver Mt. Zion @ ABC, 1 Jun
this ran the gamut of everything a gig can be Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
FilmThe Omen
Nothing special, but effectively executed (no pun intended) Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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De Rosa - Camera
I'd like some more time with De Rosa Read more »| 15 Jul 2006
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Robin Guthrie @ Cameo Cinema, 3 Jun
fashions lasting impressions of an experience of heaven Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Fuck-Off Machete / De Rosa / Paul Research / Rieser @ Swamp Bar @ Edinburgh
F.O. Machete close the evening on top form, delivering a typically blistering half-hour of serrating, sandblasting belters. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Spare Snare - Sort It For Afterwards
Spare Snare will go elsewhere for their next gig Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Isobel Campbell @ The Liquid Room. 30 May
Not often can the countrified laments of Northwest America and the majestic balladry of central Scotland appear quite so compatible as they do here tonight Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Helen van Meene
The emotional spectrum runs from unsettling to downright creepy Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Dada's Boys
The notion of questioned male identity is reflected in the works by the frankly stellar array of contemporary artists Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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The Glasgow Art School Degree Show
massive in its scope, almost impossible to fully digest, with work of potency often hung next to underdeveloped juvenilia Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Niall MacDonald and Jim Ramsey - That Old Subtle Foe
points towards several preoccupations, neatly sidestepping any chance for proscriptive interpretation Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Jonathan Scott and Fred Pederson - Demo
Jonathon Scott's ambition translates into true excellence Read more »| 15 Jul 2006