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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MusicThe Early Years - All Ones And Zeros
Spiralling, backward guitars hitch a ride on an insistent Death in Vegas-style rhythm Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicBoy Kill Boy - Back Again
delivers a standard synth-laden indie-angst sound that falls somewhere in between Hard-Fi and ehm, Hard-Fi Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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Kubb - Grow
If I was middle-aged and didn't know anything about music, I would probably think this was ace Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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Your Vegas - Flybuzz
The dubious lyrics, the sweeping guitar, the earnest falsettos - Your Vegas have it all. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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The Magic Numbers - I See You, You See Me
a big, tasteless musical stew Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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Interview - OK GO
What cost the princely sum of $24 to make and was intended as a surprise treat for fans at live shows is fast becoming a fascinating piece of music history. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006
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Interview - Bricolage
Bricolage, a term that means making art from whatever is in front of you, are much more than pilfering magpies Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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Rise Up - Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Jan 7
Once again, no one came close to OBE tonight. Somebody sign these lads, for god's sake Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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Interview - Robert Pollard - From a Compound Eye
Matador wanted to keep me on as a solo artist but we had a difference of opinion on a project that I later thought was silly. So I decided to go elsewhere. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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Belle and Sebastian - G2 @ Glasgow
Stuart Murdoch, a picture of airbrushed, smooth-skinned beauty, lulls the braying audience into rapt attention, Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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The Jurors - Barfly @ Glasgow
The Jurors are a band whose intensity is building like a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico, soon to strike our shores. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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The Acute @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13th January
Underpinning the veneer is a set of songs alternatively bruising and delicate.
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Test Icicles @ The Venue, 14th January
a cacophonous inferno of metal-riffage, disco drum-machine beats, sampled machineguns, prerecorded pounding base-lines, math-core outbursts and electronic noise Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
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State of Affairs, Private Jackson and Deadenstereo - Bannermans
without that extra something few will make it
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Calla - Collisions
the depth of sound and complexity of lyrics weave sultry pictures as much as they tell stories of disappointment and failed potential Read more »| 15 Feb 2006