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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Film
Accepted
A good natured treat. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Brainstormer - Creating a Storm in the Nu-Skool Breaks Scene
In the original scene you had all the elements all in one music, and when it split I was thinking: 'What do I do, do I make happy tunes because I like the happy elements or do I make drum & bass because I like the beats?' I was pretty torn. - Brainstormer Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Swingingman: Their Feet Don't Touch The Ground
Piers Norton (FBC / Swingingman Records) talks to The Skinny about punk, Copenhagen jazz winos, and how online music saved indie labels Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Construct at Studio 24, Edinburgh Event Review
The music and atmosphere was explosive and a storming night was had by all Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Alex Smoke - Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi Vol. 3
It's another Smoke success. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Carl Craig, Slam, Luciano, Damian Lazarus, Craig Richards, Repeat Repeat (live), Transparent Sound (live), Slam's 8th Birthday, Pressure, The Arches, Glasgow, Nov 24
When they aren't gracing Radio 1's Essential Mix you can usually find them pounding the decks at Pressure, possibly even more so this month to iterate all eight birthday dumps. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006
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People Under The Stairs @ Cabaret Voltaire, October 11
With such an accessible aesthetic, it's too frustrating to think that this crew may never transcend cult Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Mogwai - Black Spider/Half Time
As if part of a long collapse Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
The Easy Gramophone ft Chris Garneau
5 songs you can legally download and listen to - free Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
A Muso's Top 10: Muggs (Cypress Hill)
Just because I ain't all over MTV all fuckin' day homie, don't mean I'm not doin' this shit. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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The Long Blondes @ Oran Mor, 10 Oct
Visceral and charming, better suited to dancing than intellectual analysis. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
The Automatic @ ABC
Energetic? Certainly. Fun? Most definitely. Worth seeing twice? Not really Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Peaches @ ABC, 11 Oct
The most concise excuse for random sex, ever Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Film
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
Uninspired, dull and completely lacking in tension. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
The Stone Ghost Collective - A Theory of Everything
Gorgeous music paired with a bit of space-knowledge, a bit of metaphysics, a bit of mysticism. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006