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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MusicDean Owens - Whisky Hearts
Difficult to get worked up about.
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MusicBritish Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
The enigmatic Brighton four-piece have regained their edge. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Aidan John Moffat - I Can Hear Your Heart
Moffat still has some maudlin tales of drunken sex trysts to get off his chest. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Xtravaganza Mix - Mixed by Alex Gold & Pete Gooding
This compilation is sure to bring back good memories for those who've been to Space, and inspire those who haven't to make the trip Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
MusicActress Hands - Boys Need Jazz
The lyric ""Despite the stitches on your jawline, didn't we have fun last night"" is surely a design for life Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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V/A - Soma Compilation 2007
Soma always delivers the goods Read more »| 06 Jan 2008
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Pyrelli - Vitamin A: A Twist of Fate
The self-aggrandizing rhymes are often lazy in their subject matter, adopting the braggadocio of mainstream US rap'n'bullshit rather than the hyper-intelligent storytelling of Wiley and Dizzee Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Obsidian - Millimetre
It taps into the droning power of Mogwai that lifts the listener beyond the everyday Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Iko Itzu - The Electronic Fighter
With a little more focus there could be either a cross-over hit or an underground anthem on this album, but it's too unsure of what it wants to be Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Atjazz - Full Circle
A collection that sidesteps musical fashions and is all the better for it Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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A State of Mind & Skrein - Pre-emptive Nostalgia
Diversity is key, down to the finest detail Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Akufen and Guillame & The Coutu Dumounts, Freq, Sub Club, 5 Oct
A rapturous applause and a surge of outstretched hands towards the DJ booth suggests that this is a successful event indeed Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Pressure 9th Birthday, The Arches, Glasgow, 30 Nov
His final track, The Man With a Red Face, is a fittingly epic end to a fittingly epic night Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Black Affair, Amp Box, Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh, 30 Nov
An all-round vibrant night Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
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Black Mountain - A Stormy High
Axl Rose might have a fanbase so large that he can afford to shed a few thousand members for every month he postpones the release of the Chinese Democracy, but when today's fickle downloader wants more music from their favourite new band no sooner than they've had their first fix, the two years that Vancouver quintet Black Mountain and their fierce brand of psych rock have spent away from the public eye could have cost them dearly. Now they're back with what could prove to be their career-defining LP, Amber Webber and Matt Camirand tell Dave Kerr what kept them in the game. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008