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
The Aquarium - The Aquarium
It's nice to hear a band who are arty without being po-faced about it.
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Music
Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red Sun
Swelling, never ending guitar crescendos and trance inducing war drums. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Dead Meadow - Dead Meadow
Every party needs a hallucinatory hippy album to finish things off mellow, and Dead Meadow might be just the come-down. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Cortez - Too Orangey For Crows
Though perhaps not earth-shifting, 'Too Orangey For Crows' is too good for anonymity. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Film
Marie Antoinette
Ultimately unsatisfying. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Film
The Departed
Whenever the two moles near each other - or Nicholson is on screen - the film is beyond riveting. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006
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Music
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - So Divided
All that's missing is a poetic ramble about Texas radio and the big beat. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Film
The Last Kiss
Manages to remain both warm and touching. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Film
Barnyard
Benefits from a fast pace, electric party scenes and funny moments. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Film
Film Releases November
The Wind That Shakes the BarleySet in Ireland, this film focuses on two brothers caught up in the bloody conflict so frequently misunderstood around the worl... Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Film
Driving Lessons
has a storyline on the road to nowhere Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Mogwai - Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait OST
On record it sounds no less haunting Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Subtle - The Mercury Craze
A pulsating chrome-coated beat ushers fictional hiphop protagonist Hour Hero Yes through the door of this, the latest abstract from Subtle's modern day 'Tomm... Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Theatre
Arches & Tramway Dance and Physical Theatre Previews
The sort of antics Tommy Sheridan certainly doesn't get up to Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
New Order @ Carling Academy
Does this mean New Order can never play a bad gig? Read more »| 12 Nov 2006