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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Make Model, Fat Sams, Dundee, 29 Oct
It would be easy to picture a Make Model gig resurrecting memories in even the most grumblesome indie purist of how unashamedly, unpretentiously fun music can be Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Drowning Pool - Full Circle
Edgy, aggressive, passionate and fiery Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
Musical genius Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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The Teenagers @ Cabaret Voltaire
This derivative rag-tag collective will have to improve dramatically to avoid a quick and humiliating demotion Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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The Sounds @ Liquid Room
Not bothered about utilising the odd cliché or twelve Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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The Shins @ Corn Exchange
A distinctly lackluster occasion Read more »| 08 Oct 2007
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Razorlight @ Meadowbank Stadium
Maybe Tom should take a leaf out of Johnny Borrell's book Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Mice Parade @ King Tut's
Winsome melodies building to well-orchestrated climaxes and ecstatic flamenco-influenced wailing Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Hard-Fi @ Abc
The energy and the atmosphere provided by Hard-Fi's live set means that, for once, a Mercury nomination does not denote a black hole into oblivion Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Stephen Fretwell - Man On The Roof
The music is only bettered by Fretwell's breathy, naturally-fluid vocals Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Slayer - Christ Illusion
Still kicking out the sickest of Satanic jams Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Reverend And The Makers - The State of Things
More relevant than most of the self-avowedly 'oop-Nawth' bands out there, but it's no work of ecclesiastical genius Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Paul Curreri - The Velvet Rut
Curreri adds theatricality to his folk-country and never takes himself too seriously Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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MV & EE with The Golden Road - Gettin' Gone
This is an album of true musicianship Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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múm - Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy
Go Go is múm's prettiest progeny since her first Read more »| 08 Oct 2007