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
Summercase Preview
Summercase is a nocturnal beast, rising at 6pm only to collapse in a blissful stupor a full 12 hours later. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Music
Indian Summer Preview
This is a festival devoted to putting a smile on your face and the sumptuous sound of music in your ears. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Art
Degree Shows preview
For the students, it's a time of abject terror, teetotalism, and the realisation that four years of 'work' has to be compressed into the space of two weeks and then presented to the public Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Art
Amazing Rare Things
showcases the work of men and women whose artistic investigations played an important role in the advancement of our species' understanding of the world around us Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Art
Post-Heroic Societies In The Long Shadow Of War
The artworks never manage to find themselves and in their layered imagery the viewer becomes lost Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Art
Peter Jaques: Babble
Jaques' work takes the traditional process of photography into an interesting and innovative direction Read more »| 10 Jun 2007
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Art
Force
We are told that this is influenced by the equine portraits of George Stubbs, which of course, is true, in the sense that there are horses in it.
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Clubs
Golden Bug - Barbie's Back
It's like Robyn if she wasn't so pleasantly pop, or Princess Superstar if she was less verbose and hung out with dorkier boys Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Clubs
Pink Punk - One More Remix
Drum 'n' bass with a message; not everyone's cup of tea, but not a complete disaster Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
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Soom T vs. King Creosote - What Is Life?
A danceable little number, and as inventive a musical marriage as you are likely to hear this year Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Clubs
Spektrum, WAE, Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, 6 June
the recent stream of special guests - Le Castle Vania, Hot Chip and now Spektrum of Laahndahn Tahn - seems to be flowing into the indie end of the electro field of late, but it would be a travesty to lump genre-benders Spektrum into any such pigeonhole Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
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D Ramirez/Anton Neumark - Satisfaction Generation
In a word, pumping. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
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Devon Pennant - Reggae For It Now
Kicking against the darker evolutions of dancehall and returning to streamlined pop-reggae, Devon Pennant releases a rather simplistic cover of Bill Lovelady's Reggae For It Now Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Clubs
Digitalism - Pogo
Pogo is the second offering from their new album, Idealism, and features all their trademarks: catchy distorted synths, heavy guitar riffs, and euro electro vocals. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
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Erasure - I Could Fall In Love With You
English synthpop duo Erasure are back again for their 13th studio album,
and trademark melodies, style, and romantic electro, taking I Could Fall In Love With You as the first single release Read more »| 10 Jun 2007