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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MusicUnsane - Visqueen
Still barraging listeners with sludge-punk monstrosities. Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
Music
PW Long - God Bless the Drunkard's Dog
A startling reinvention of raw rock in the style of Hendrix. Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
Music
Papercuts - Can't Go Back
An enchanting exercise in retro-reverence. Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
MusicMaria McKee - Late December
Tastefully arranged but lacking personality: McKee attempts to cover all musical bases. Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
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Le Reno Amps - So For Your Thrills
Deliberately tumbledown. Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
Music
Julie Fowlis - Cuilidh
Marvellous songs, faultlessly arranged and performed with conviction. Read more »| 11 May 2007
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MusicJames Yorkston - Roaring the Gospel
Yorkston is a born songwriter with a knack for surprising his listeners in almost every verse. Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
MusicAmandine - Solace in Sore Hands
Stunning. Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
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Alberta Cross - The Thief and the Heartbreaker
A broken landscape, where the devil is on every street corner and hearts are broken, yet hopeful. Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
Music
1990s - Cookies
Scruffy indie kids with bad teeth: they could even be mates of Pete Doherty. Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
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The Young Knives @ QMU
More like this, please. Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
MusicModest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
Whether or not it was Marr who sank the ship is an entirely different question. Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
Film
Thin Lizzy the Rocker - A Portrait of Philip Lynott
Phillip was a rockstar when he was cleaning his teeth Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
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Bloc Party - I Still Remember
I Still Remember is Bloc Party in morning-after-the-night-before mode. Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
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Damien Rice @ The Usher Hall
Easy on the ears, heavy on the tears. Read more »| 11 May 2007