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
Disturbed - Land Of Confusion
Please, quick, someone turn it off, or hand over some gaffer tape and a nail gun. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Theatre
Martha @ Tramway
Move's Martha is self-contained, confident and wry - the intimate detail lost in Tramway's post-industrial space. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Vincent Vincent and the Villians - Johnny Two Bands
Quirky, wholesome fun Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Books
Slam Dunk - The Big Word
In relief to this entertainment machine of processed meets, The Big Word is back to throw a spanner in the works Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Books
Scottish Writers Conquer the Universe!
a product of the scientific, engineering tradition on the one hand and the mystic Celtic background on the other, generating SF with a lyrical strand and fantasy with particularly strong backgrounds Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Books
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
subjects such as the breakdown of family relations and the stifling atmosphere of eighteenth century London are described without qualms or precedent Read more »| 12 Nov 2006
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Books
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
The Monarch of the Glen' charts the rise of an ancient evil in the Scottish Highlands (obvious when you think about it) Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Books
Cautionary Tales: Comic Verse for The Twenty First Century by James Landale
Landale has replaced Belloc's characters, who Run Away from Nurse and Slam Doors, with twenty first century hell raisers who instead Play Computer Games, Shoplift and Wind Up With An ASBO. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Books
500 Reasons Why I Hate the Office by Malcolm Burgess
If, for some reason, you need to read a hack book about how unbearable your work life is you are just adding, masochist-like, to your woes. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Brakes - The Beatific Visions
A solid collection of intelligent pop from Brighton's answer to the Travelling Wilburys... Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Evanescence - 'The Open Door'
a little darker, hopefully putting to rest those persistent Christianity rumours Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Tim Finn - Couldn't Be Done
This is still a shiny little pop gem Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Ed Harcourt @ The Classic Grand
It's the last night of the tour and I've decided to be obnoxious Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Theatre
A One-Man Welsh Chorus
In the shadow of World War II, Dylan Thomas wanted to write of the regenerative abilities of humanity, and its capacity to love, even if it only comes across as longing or loss. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Clubs
In Flagranti - 'In The Silver White Box'
Gomma get busy with electro-house meets Italo-disco balearic-flavoured singles. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006