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
Big Hand @ The Bongo Club
some full on skanking action was required Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Ugly Duckling and Giant Panda @ The Liquid Room
The 'Duckling leave a crowd yearning for the sensation of what ""The Day"" must have felt like, once upon a rhyme Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Queen Monica plus guests @ The Swamp Bar @ Caledonian Backpackers
a country-soaked ménage of magnetic melody, sumptuous song-writing and dreary detachment Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
MusicStarsailor - Keep Us Together
hardly groundbreaking stuff from the former ""next big things"" but that's not to say it won't get your toe tapping Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
MusicLiam Frost and The Slowdown Family - The Mourners of St Paul's
Frost and co have jammed the repeat button Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Tarwater & Tape @ Mono
Tape - the sublime Swedes who hushed the whole venue to absolute silence Read more »| 15 Jun 2006
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Wolf Eyes @ The Venue
harsh, intense music, made all the more nightmarish by Nate Young's screeching vocals Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Miss Black America @ The Swamp @ Caledonian Backpackers
they played with ferocious intensity, but failed to set passions blazing in the hearts of the crowd Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Little Man Tate @ Barfly
If bands had IPO's, I would be watering at the mouth for LMT's. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
MusicDe Rosa - Mend
Meticulously arranged, it's a Pandora's Box of windswept laments and soaring pop songs Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Clubs
U-Roy, Liquid Room, Edinburgh, April 26
In DJ terms they don't come much more legendary than U-Roy Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Biz Markie and Roxane Shante @ The Liquid Room
as a performance, Biz failed to turn tha party out Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
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Giant Drag - Hearts and Unicorns
Has it come to this, expletives and schoolyard tomfoolery to sell records? Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
The Streets @ The Corn Exchange
Even when rendered with Skinner's wit the result is a performance as edifying as a Jordan rendition of R-Kelly's Trapped in the Closet Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Music
The Fire Engines Edinburgh Liquid Room, April 28
the Fire Engines have always been experts in the art of leaving us wanting more Read more »| 15 Jun 2006