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
Household - 20/20
Music teeming with youthful exuberance and brusque ennui in equal measure Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Dirty Fuzz - Tell Your Mama
a mediocre rocker is reduced to a passionless parody Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Dan Sartain - Flight of the Finch
Sartain creates a pastiche of melodramatic balladry without crass parody, sounding simultaneously knowing and involved Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Assembly Now - Leigh On Sea
fails to inject much urgency, originality or imagination into short bursts of energy Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Music
James Brown - An Obituary
Arguably the single most influential musician of the 20th Century, James Brown couldn't read music or understand concepts like time signatures, scales and chord changes. Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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The Electric Cinema - The Electric Cinema
an invite to a world of tuneful sincerity Read more »| 10 Feb 2007
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Music
Nat Baldwin - Lights Out
plaintive singing contrasts eloquently with the staccato bass Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Music
Little Barrie — Stand Your Ground
a delicate and eminently listenable meshing of dynamics Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Husky Rescue - Ghost is Not Real
Who let the dogs out? Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Aereogramme - My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go
a prime example of the great heights that a little longevity can take you to Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Film
Flags of our Fathers
A dead cert for Oscar season, and deservedly so. Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Clubs
The Roots, Carling Academy, 17 Dec
if only they'd dig a little further into their own back catalogue rather than that of an entire genre Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Music
Rock'n'Roll Wedding @ The Bongo Club
The Alvas veered into Kenny Rogers territory and ran out of gas, pushing an old clunker over state lines Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Clubs
Top 6 Nights in Edinburgh and Glasgow
Top 6 GlasgowJohnny Violence, Digital Harlot's Violent Valentine Masquerade, Strathclyde Uni Student Union, Feb 10It's a romantic 'pimps n'Ho's' theme at Dig... Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Clubs
House of Techno February 2007
Early on Rob Da Bank is heading back to the Capital on Feb 2 with Paddy Freeform (Bestival FM) and Surface EMP at Trouble (Cabaret Voltaire) - eclectic house... Read more »| 10 Feb 2007