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
Various Artists - Get While The Getting's Good
Impossible to judge on the performance of any individual musicians Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
Music
Tom McRae - King of Cards
One Mississippi should be marked as one of the finest songs he's recorded... Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
Music
Fireworks Night - As Fools We Are
Fascinating musical experiment ruined by lame vocalist. Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
Music
Electrelane - No Shouts, No Calls
Resonant and irresistibly tribal. Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
Music
DŸSE - DŸSE
talent, weirdness and ineffably danceable tunes Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
Music
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81
A masterclass. Read more »| 11 May 2007
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Film
Edinburgh Film News May 2007
The Poland Through Animation programme has something for all art and film lovers. Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
Film
Glasgow Film News: May
Film of the Month is This Is England. Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
Music
The Dials @ Ego
Still learning new and more devious ways to sound both several years ahead of their birth certificates as well as more and more muscular by the day Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
Clubs
Guru - Jazzmatazz Volume 4
Apart from a few weak tracks, this is a return to form for Baldhead Slick and his ever-expanding jazz massive. Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
Music
Soul Circus @ ABC2
good time, blue-collar rock, with lyrics celebrating the joy of life and lust. Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
Music
The Pipettes Gig at The Garage
each song is pop perfection in miniature and is impossible to resist Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
Music
Camera Obscura @ ABC, 21 Apr
the overwhelming feeling is that hundreds of people have paid to be thoroughly sedated on a Saturday night Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
Music
Wired and Wonderful: The gospel according to a Manic Street Preacher
"Maybe we've been guilty of trying to ram our ideas down people's throats - but I just think it's the way we are!" - Nicky Wire Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
Film
The Fountain
Occasionally its visual sophistication makes you think you're watching the best film you've ever seen Read more »| 11 May 2007