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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Clubs
DJ Chart - Mungo's Hi Fi DJs
1. Mungo's Hi Fi feat. MC Ishu - Belly Ska (Scotch Bonnet)The ska bomb dropped last year still going strong, mashing up the dance and still getting requests ... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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DJ Chart - Dan Traffik (Traffik)
1. Phuture - Acid Tracks (Soul Jazz)Quality old school re–release as part of the Soul Jazz acid house compilation. This track is guaranteed to make you ... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Column 2: The Soul Sermon!
Groovenik have supported Marlena Shaw, an' if they're good enough for Marlena, they're good enough for the Reverend! Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Column 1 : Drum and Bass
Roni Size, Fabio & Grooverider- cannot fail in converting even the most musically constipated into full-on junglists Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Club Michigan - Back to Detroit
Instead of being greeted with looplooplooploop, the residents intend to stir up their own recipe of hi-tech funk Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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The Hustlers, The Bongo Club, Edinburgh, Feb 16
The Hustlers have been building a reputation locally as a band to funkify any party, and they do. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006
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Refo Records Launch, The Brunswick Hotel, Jan 19
This launch party honoured a new breed of forward thinkers Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Up Bustle and Out - 'City Breakers - 18 Frames Per Second'
Continues where the previous 'Urban Evacuation' left off; heavily dub-wise, but also embracing other Jamaican styles Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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The Hustlers - 'Succour for Suckers'
Unique, odd as hell, sublimely disturbing, their darker tracks are as special as their live show Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
Unsigned Band - Skeleton Bob
Why name the band after a bobsleigh vessel? Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Bricolage - Stereo @ Glasgow
this Spring could be the last time you get to see them before they go stratospheric Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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ADULT. - ABC @ Glasgow
Music that, overheard, would cause your mother to wonder about your mental health is ordinarily impossible to listen to unless entering a 'Leaving Las Vegas'... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
MusicThe Young Knives- Here Comes The Rumour Mill
Dressed like grouse beaters with a bass player called the House of Lords, the faded grandeur of The Young Knives' scruffy tweed suits hide the dirty pants of... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Theatre
The Hollow
Agatha Christie's play The Hollow is a classic whodunit - a man finds himself trapped in a house with his wife, his mistress and a bitter ex-mistress. But few are aware that her own history was the stuff of her novels and plays, including a difficult marriage and a mysterious disappearance. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
The story of the murderous barber who dumps bodies in a shared cellar, the baker next door and her strangely delicious pies, is a deliciously scary old wives' tale, but it turns out it's a true story and the perfect subject for a different type of musical. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006