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
Slam - No One Left To Follow
The attention to build on both tracks shows competent understanding of what the modern techno dancefloor requires, while maintaining enough hooks to keep bodies moving. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
MusicQueens of the Stone Age - 3's & 7's
A short and sweet southern fried hors d'oeuvre. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
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Seafood - Love Song / I'll Be There In The Morning
Could be interesting as a performance piece, certainly, but not as recorded work. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
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Metal Up Your Ass - June 2007
Beckon forth the sun and all its pleasures... with metal. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
MusicThe Maccabees @ The Garage, 9 May
It's so achingly now, it's almost comical. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
MusicMogwai @ The Liquid Room, 13 May
Mogwai @ The Liquid Room - Ten Years Later! Read more »| 10 Jun 2007
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Manic Street Preachers @ Barrowlands
Ever the peerless breed, and being served harsh condemnation by their detractors for as long as they've existed, the Manics finally look to be riding somethi... Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Film
Fantastic Four: Reserving Judgement - Surf's Up
Let's be careful not to write movies and actors off before we see them. Read more »| 10 Jun 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 Jun 2007 -
Books
Eating Jesus
Eating Jesus manages to avoid the numerous cliches it could have stumbled into Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Film
Ten Canoes
The oral tradition is captured well by this ""story within a story within a story"". Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Music
The Dials @ Ego
Still learning new and more devious ways to sound both several years ahead of their birth certificates as well as more and more muscular by the day Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
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Soul Circus @ ABC2
good time, blue-collar rock, with lyrics celebrating the joy of life and lust. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
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Pipettes @ The Garage
Exciting, enthusiastic and effortlessly sexy, everything a girl group should be. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
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Conflict Diamonds / Arse2Mouth @ Henry's Cellar Bar
Machine gun-spitting guitar fury, potentially crowd-injuring drumming and natty waistcoats. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007