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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Drum and Bass Curriculum
After a jam-packed January full of birthday and New Year celebrations, we continue into February with a whole host of mouth watering line-upsWe begin proceed... Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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TC: Riding high
SF: Scott Ramage swaps electronic messages with the current poster boy of drum and bass, TC, to get the dirt on his new Watch the Ride mix
PQ: ""If you want to work with sound, you've got to keep moving"" Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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Talkin' All Atjazz
SF: We follow up January's album of the month, Full Circle, with an interview with Atjazz himself: Colin Chapman learns about structuring, talent swapping, and how Atjazz is taking back music for The Skinny
PQ: ""There's more of a detailed painting of what I was feeling behind each of the tracks on Full Circle"" Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
Theatre
Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty.....I'd rather be Little Red Riding Hood
Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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Full Phat: Cream of The Crop
SF: The Skinny meets one of Scotland's local artists on the up, Full Phat
PQ: ""After a while I started making tracks just for enjoyment and stopped chasing it so hard"" Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
Film
Before The Devil Knows You're Dead
Might be a certified classic. Read more »| 05 Feb 2008
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Dom Kane - Smoke Machine
This single positively demands your attention, whether on the dancefloor or doing the dishes Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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Cazals - To Cut A Long Story Short
To conclude, this is a bold dance track, which will also catch the ear of adventurous rock fans Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
ClubsThe Super Phonics - Interstellar
This is a very solid, invigorating album that would also make a great '70s cop show soundtrack Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
ClubsSimbad - Supersonic Revelation
That which suggests what Simbad is capable of, makes it a frustrating listen Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
MusicThe Singles - Start Again
The Singles won't be going home with anyone but themselves for quite some time Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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Tronic: Exactly what it says on the tin
SF: Tronic pulls in some of the finest local electronic artists on the west coast and London-based Yimino for their stonking February date
PQ: ""We knew there was a lot of good talent out there - we wanted to create something a bit different"" - Stuart Foxwell Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
Music
The Mars Volta - Bringing out the dead
The latest LP from this El Paso prog posse is one born of late night tour bus Ouija board sessions that they claim invoked spirits strong enough to cast the band's world into chaos. Members left or suffered mental breakdowns, songs went missing and Cedric Bixler-Zavala ultimately became obsessive to the point that Omar Rodríguez-López had to steal the soothsaying 'gift' back and bury it in the desert. All that transcendental drama to produce what is easily one of their heaviest, most accomplished records to date. Dave Kerr put Egon Spengler on hold and spoke directly to the Mars Volta's helmsmen in an effort to make some sense of The Bedlam in Goliath. Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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Introducing: Yeasayer
Meet another Brooklyn band with an indiscriminate musical ear: this is Yeasayer, who released a debut album at the end of 2007, All Hour Cymbals, which is as colourful as the end of a rainbow, and equally as packed with treasures. Ally Brown plays leprechaun with Ira Wolf Tuton for a bit Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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Bob Mould: spinning plates
It's been three years since Bob Mould recorded a guitar album, but in that time he's been busy remixing, releasing electronic records and DJing a successful club night. Matt Gollock speaks to the ex-Sugar and Hüsker Dü legend about his return to the six strings he started with and the new roads he's chosen in-between Read more »| 05 Feb 2008