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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MusicDashboard Confessional - The Shade of Poison Trees
Characters are culled from the pages of Fitzgerald with all their beauty and mystery intact. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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Stars - The Night Starts Here
As sweet as melted marshmallow, and as sickly too. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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The Ads - Maybe Tonight
A powerhouse rock tune in the grand 'three chords and the truth' tradition. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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Young Galaxy - Outside The City
Late arrivals wearing cheaper clothes. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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Eddie Kid feat Leo The Lion - Who Is The One?
They could easily be crawling back through Skinner's catflap this time next year
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Dave Armstrong & Redroche feat H-Boogie - Love Has Gone
This is pure, undiluted house music, its sole purpose to make you dance until your feet are burned red raw Read more »| 07 Dec 2007
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Speakeasy With Style
SF: Club in comfort at Cabaret Voltaire's brand new room...
PQ: ""Clubbers' expectations are constantly getting higher and it's important for an underground venue like the Cab to cater to their needs"" Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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Robert Owens: Vocalising
SF: For the fifth instalment of our Bacardi Profile series, we get soulful with the legendary Chicago house vocalist, Robert Owens.
PQ: ""I think you have to keep going on everything, trying to keep giving from your soul as long as you are able to"" Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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House Of Techno Highlights - December
A quick grope of Kinky Afro's offering suggests something very, very big, with Soma main-man Jim Hutchinson spinning alongside Rustie, Alex Smoke and what feels like London's very finest Dubstep producer Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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V/A Mixed by Steve Bug - Fabric37
The album finishes with some synth-heavy, futuristic beats just as the 5am feeling takes over Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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V/A - Foresight
Casual Records' inability to find a balance is their only flaw for what is to be an exciting future brand of music Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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Example - What We Made
There's an obvious hunger at work here, both to succeed and to get the point across Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
ClubsDonnacha Costello - Colorseries
Colorseries sounds fresh and vital; the kind of emotive and intoxicating techno that Supermayer should have been Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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The Shins @ Barrowlands
Kudos to The Shins for finally recognising that intimacy is their friend. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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Various Artists - Now That's What We Call Music Vol 1
If you're tired of the corporate consolidation of music, give this a spin and have your faith restored. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007