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
I Was a Cub Scout - Our Smallest Adventures
Not quite sharp enough to pierce the skin Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Von Sudenfed @ The Arches
There's a thin line between madness and genius, and Von Sudenfed seem to play hopscotch around that line Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Richard Hawley @ Queens Hall
Richard Hawley could play the SECC and it would still feel intimate Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Seasick Steve @ The Liquid Room
Steve's incongruity is strangely comforting Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Kharma 45 @ Cabaret Voltaire
These boys carry their own sound, and it's electrifying Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Saturation Point - Three
Saturation Point would perhaps have been better advised to condense their quadrilogy into one strong album Read more »| 08 Sep 2007
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Neutrinos - One Way Kiss
A harrowing gravity that captivates all within their pull Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Emma Pollock - Watch The Fireworks
Ripples with satisfying pop hooks Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Michael Clayton
A rattling legal thriller. Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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A Mighty Heart
Never quite manages to fully engage emotionally. Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Darkwater - 1920
Woah, guitars! Phew, electronica! Gee, suggestive lyrics! Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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The Dykeenies - Stitches
There's hype a-brewin' Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Battle - Paper Street
An energy of deft harmonising which pushes a ten-a-penny indie track above the norm Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Incubus @ SECC
Tenner says Brandon will be topless by the third song Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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The Go! Team - Proof of Youth
SF: Experimental pop is still the name of their game and Jon Seller swoops in on the The Go! Team, like Big Bird, to find out how they play it...
PQ: ""I'd be lying if I said that Sesame Street wasn't an influence"" - Ian Parton Read more »| 08 Sep 2007