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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MusicThe Cribs
This will be a decisive year for The Cribs to prove they are greater than the sum of their influences. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicThe Acute
"We're the most beautiful thing in Scotland today because we are so fucking honest and true in what we do!" Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicInterview - Broken Social Scene
"We do something that's very beautiful and serious ... but we don't take it too seriously." Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
Live Music Roundup - February
Warped Detroit visionaries ADULT. are the soundtrack to your most beautiful, paranoid fantasies. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
FilmNorth Country
The pain of the story, and the frankness and warmth of its telling are strengthening somehow. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicPop Up @ 13th Note, 12 Jan
Pop Up combine showmanship with idiosyncratic innovation wrapped around a cool crispy centre Read more »| 15 Feb 2006
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MusicHerman Düne @ Mono, 12 Jan
We dance, we nod, we think of our silly lives Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicPanic! At The Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
Like that friend of a friend you're a bit ambivalent about, but the more they hang around, the more you like them Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicThe Hazey Janes - Hotel Radio
The Hazey Janes sought sunshine and clear skies Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicThe Easy Gramophone - February
5 songs you can legally download and listen to - free Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicDawn of the Replicants
We went to John Peel's funeral and I cried my eyes out throughout the whole thing. Partly because I thought, 'this is the end of my career!' Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
FilmShopGirl
A beautifully composed, bittersweet rarity Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicFall Out Boy - Sugar, We're Goin' Down
An excellent example of what Fall Out Boy are all about: it's cheesy, it's poppy, and it's brilliant Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicBe Your Own Pet- Let's Gt Sandy (Big Problem) (XL recordings)
...can't see BYOP surviving the Warhol-prescribed 15-minute shelf-life Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Art
Edinburgh Gallery News
The new Corn Exchange gallery, located on Constitution St in Leith, will open its doors to the public on Feb 2. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006