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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MusicThese Arms Are Snakes - The Feast of Easter
"I think it's telling to see how prominent rock or more specifically punk music has become a part of the cultural landscape; to see this very conservative, Christian, very safe and obedient sort of mindset creeping in..." - Brian Cook Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
MusicXvectors
Rave is no longer the underground movement of yesteryear - now they call it a scene. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Clubs
Silicone Soul - Bad Machines
Whilst it is a fun song that you can boogie away to, it's just not anything special or original. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Basement Breaks, 13th Note, Glasgow, 21 Feb
The years away seems to have been good for everyone's drive, giving the crowd that hunger, and the performers the desire to make sure everyone goes home well fed. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Hip-Hop by BringDaRuckus
Don't bother going if you're walking the path of 8mile... but do if you're up for talking, laughs and smiles! Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Comedy
Martin Soan, Tron Theatre, 18 Mar
his jokes are stealth bombers flying beneath the radar of our sophisticated adult sensibilities Read more »| 11 Apr 2007
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MusicKid Canaveral - Smash Hits
It's a familiar conundrum: "She's fit, but her music taste's shite." Erase Errata vs. Neil Sedaka. And you might dwell on this - the most wretched of... Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
ClubsEl-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
I'll Sleep... owes as much to the hyperactive cut and paste anarchy of the Bomb Squad's productions as it does to El-P's own back catalogue Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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The Glasgow School
It's all tea and hot crossed buns this month, all in the name of rock n' roll you understand... Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Music
The Easy Gramophone ft The Limes
5 free songs you can legally download, listen to and love.
Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Music
Metal Up Your Ass - April, 2007
Live and destructive... Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Music
LCD Soundsystem at Barrowlands
James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem's frontman, is still waiting for the kids he baited in the band's debut single Losing My Edge, to come and usurp him. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Music
The Rapture - A Special Relationship In Reverse
Musically, it's taken Britain to tell America what's important about America. - Luke Jenner Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Music
XFM Column
In the past I used to light up, and wield my Camel light like an orange tipped light sabre. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Clubs
House of Techno April 2007
the electronic soundtrack to Rene Magritte doing a stripshow Read more »| 11 Apr 2007