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
Orkestra del Sol - The Moveable Feast
These Spiegeltent favourites and brass titans finally unveil their second full length album and anyone to have experienced their raucous live shows will deli... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Grey Daturas - Return to Disruption
Taking an aesthetic cue from amp shredding moments of chaos and the creeping screeching strings of Italian giallo films, Grey Daturas are a behemothic beast.... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Drive By Argument - Drive-By Argument
Ayr's Drive By Argument promise to "make you shit your pants". If you don’t, they offer a complimentary laxative. It takes a special band to propose th... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Boris - Smile
Not wanting to be labeled as a racial profiler, I have previously pondered many times in these pages about why Japan does actually, factually have the best b... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Birds Of Avalon - Bazaar, Bazaar
This album is a brilliant example of how to bring classic rock influences into the 21st century. This is despite - or perhaps because of - Birds Of Avalon&rs... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Beehoover - Heavy Zooo
First off, this is quite some noise for a two-piece. Definitely at their best when summoning enormous riffs from the ether, Beehoover have managed to deliver... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008
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Asva - What You Don't Know is Frontier
One of the more permissible travesties of modern music is the acceptance of ultra-grim necro black metal into the pretentious art types' embrace. It's not re... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Adem - Takes
Adem is no dying legend, ageing rockstar, nor crooning lounge lizard, yet he still survives the release of this covers album with his reputation not only int... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
House of Techno Event Preview, April 2008
The Ballers Social Club continue their winning streak in May with a lesson in bass monstrosity from two of dubstep's nastiest exponents, Milanese and Neil La... Read more »| 24 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
World on the Beat
The month of May happily welcomes the return of two events that made memories of musical joy and madness in April – Balkanarama is back, bolder and mor... Read more »| 24 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
A State of Mind
Following on from its successful debut at Cabaret Voltaire, Lower returns, but with a twist. This time, it’ll be taking the form of a three hour, tri-p... Read more »| 24 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
Swaparama
Now here's a novel spin on everyone's favourite cheesy night out - Swaparama. Come to The Garage wearing as many of your unwanted clothes as possible, swap t... Read more »| 24 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
Pacou @ Noise Pollution, Blackfriars, 31 May
Noise pollution is still going strong thanks to resident Sean Matthews and presents a night of underground techno. Berlin born DJ Pacou (live) will top the b... Read more »| 24 Apr 2008 -
Theatre
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
One hundred and forty couples, 879 hours of dancing, a possible one thousand pound cash prize. Set at the end of a pier in 1930s America, the Citizens Theat... Read more »| 24 Apr 2008 -
Theatre
Romeo and Juliet, around Scotland, May-Jun 2008
As the Scottish Ballet prepares to tour its world premiere of Shakespeare’s classic, Susannah Radford speaks to choreographer Krzysztof Pastor about what audiences can expect Read more »| 24 Apr 2008