Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
-
Clubs
Flo-Rida - Mail on Sunday
Well, here we go with yet another example in the eternal tradition of a mediocre artist producing a blinder of a single more or less surrounded by an album o... Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
Frost and Wagner - Remixes
Oliver Frost & Adrian Wagner have been busy making quite a name for themselves on the reggae scene, and finally deliver a collection of their best remixe... Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
Hip-Hop Highlights
It is a truth universally acknowledged that when it comes to gigs featuring hip-hop legends, you just never know what you’re going to get. Sometimes it... Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
Sander Kleinenberg @ Colours, The Arches, 4 May
The May bank holiday promises to be a thumping affair with Colours playing host to another international line-up of DJing talent at The Arches. With this bei... Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
ClubsAn Inner City Institution
Inner City Acid and Radioactive Man keep the spirit of rave culture alive as the Soundhaus continues to celebrate ten years of clubbing history Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip - Spoken Culture
Is it zeitgeist? Is it modern poetry? The Skinny chats with Scoobius Pip, the lyrical maestro of Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip in the run-up to their new debut album, Angels. Read more »| 22 Apr 2008
-
Clubs
Mark Farina - Fabric 40
A member of early nineties Chicago production trio, Symbols & Instruments, alongside Derrick Carter and Chris Nazuka, Mark Farina’s mixing skills h... Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
Quentin Harris - No Politics
On debut album No Politics New York-based producer Quentin Harris assimilates his varied influences borne out of a Detroit upbringing: early techno, blues, f... Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
Black Grass - Three
Criminally underrated Brighton-based DJ/producer Mex claims this third release to be his 'Return of the Jedi’, and what a cheeky, irrepressible Ewok of... Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
James Ruskin and Jerome Hill @ Synthetic, The Caves, 4 May, 25 May
James Ruskin, Synthetic, The Caves, Edinburgh, 4 May Jerome Hill, Synthetic, The Caves, Edinburgh, 25 May Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
ClubsShapeshifters Live @ Liquid Room, 17 May
So, you like drum and bass, you like soul, you like reggae and you might even like rock. If you've mentally ticked these boxes then you might like to hear th... Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
TC and MC Jakes / Pendulum / DJ Shortee @ Xplicit, Bongo Club and Potterow, 2, 16, 30 May
Three dates, one city! Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
Drum 'n' Bass Curriculum
Can you believe it’s May already? For many this is a time spent knuckling down and putting in that final bit of effort for any last exams. For others i... Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
ClubsLifecycle - Techno Notice / Small Part of Me
Lifecycle churns out another relentless assault of breaks with the second release on the Ricochet label. Thankfully the release isn't quite as bad as the app... Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
Painting Sexy Black
Having affected the trajectory of the Scottish pop continuum forever with the Beta Band, Steve Mason returns this summer to do it all again with the Black Affair. Paul Mitchell finds out more about his modus operandi Read more »| 22 Apr 2008