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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ComedyNoble's intentions
PQ: ""I have stotty cakes FedExed to me around the world, to keep my mouth in a Newcastle shape"" Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
MusicThe Cloud Room - The Cloud Room
It is pop at its unselfconscious best and should without doubt be at the forefront of its genre Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
BooksThe Thursday Night Letters by PK Munroe
Munroe's letters are the best part of the book Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Books
The Poor Bastard by Joe Matt
A relatively unfunny story being told and re-told Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Books
Light by Margaret Elphinstone
The sort of fast-paced narrative which builds to a tantalizing denouement that most authors would envy Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
BooksHistory Without the Boring Bits by Ian Crofton
Will give the scholarly historian something to read in the toilet. Read more »| 08 Oct 2007
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BooksAn Iliad by Alessandro Baricco
It looses both the clinical realism and discursive fantasy that has made Homer popular Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Music
Oceansize - Ever efflorescing
I think a label executive waving a cheque book would scare the hell out of me! - Gambler Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Music
Oxjam Clothes Swap Party, The Buff Club, Glasgow, 30 Oct
For hot new threads and the latest trends Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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iLiKETRAiNS - Dissecting yesterday
I find it really fascinating, the research process that we go through. However, it needs to be to illustrate a point, to have a content that's deeper than just 'these things happened in history' - David Martin Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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DUBSTEP: Skream If You Want To Go Faster
Tempa Records ingénue Skream is a young producer who is going places. As he prepares to drop some serious sub-bass on Edinburgh's Volume!, we ask him how his sound has evolved since he witnessed the birth of dubstep. Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Daedelus - Fair Weather Friends EP
A simply stunning EP of pop-flavoured experimental dancefloor madness Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Big Dada - Ten Years Deep
Well Deep – Ten Years of Big Dada Recordings marks the anniversary of one of the UK's finest hip-hop labels. Will Ashon, the label's founder, talks to The Skinny about how he built a home for the likes of Roots Manuva and Diplo; while his latest signing Cadence Weapon, tells us about bringing hip-hop to the electroclashers.
Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Prefuse 73: A Profuse Talent
Guillermo Scott Herren is a producer and multi-instrumentalist who lives and breathes the music he performs through various guises. Dave Kerr talks to Herron... Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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House of Techno October 2008
Ebay's a fucking letdown. Apparently I can't flog one of my kidneys, even when I offer it as a gourmet food item (lightly pan fried, a little seasoning. Ya w... Read more »| 08 Oct 2007