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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Clubs
Partnership of Sound - Four Years Later
Mr Clutch and Lawds, along with MC Redeem, deliver smooth monologues, focusing on abstract images and half-rhyme word trickery rather than the 'moon-June-spoon' grunts of thug rap. Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Onur Özer - Red Cabaret EP
Red Cabaret (Overture)' employs a hundred effects, but centres itself on a fuzzy diminuendo/crescendo reminiscent of space-ship effects from Blake's 7 or Dr. Who Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Tracey Thorn - It's All True
While it is more unique than general pop releases, the song has a whiney, moaning character but none of the sparkle of EBTG's major hit, 'Missing' Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Dabrye - Two/Three Instrumentals
The Stand' and 'That's What's Up are infused with the buzz-saw electronics of his usual moniker, but the stuttering samples and snap-clap percussion mark this as a hip-hop record, with a straightforward four-four boom-bap buried deep beneath the layers Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Happy Birthday To Cab!
Cabaret Voltaire's continuing innovation and support of the local scene and its commitment to bringing the finest international talent to town make it a valuable local institution Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Music
The Dials @ Whistlebinkies
a bread n' butter gig on a rainy Friday night Read more »| 10 Feb 2007
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Books
Creative Writing - Poems by Judith Robertson
WeatherWords passed over me.They slid from your once 'oh-so-perfect' mouthfragmenting and forming scattered bundles on the floor.You picked the bundles up, s... Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Film
Alphabet Video
Red road is probably the best British film in recent years. Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Clubs
Amon Tobin: Ever Falling
I suppose I look at all recorded sound as source material. How it works in music is really down to how you then manipulate it. Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Film
The Return
A snooze-fest of epic proportions. Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Film
Dreamgirls
Hudson's sassy performance, both as singer and actress, holds it together. Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Music
Live Music Roundup for February
Strange clothes and crazy dancing will be mandatory. Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Art
Art in the Real World
A good gallery is not necessarily going to be a good business Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Clubs
Copyleft, Forest Café, Edinburgh, 9 Feb
On a mission to ""tell it like it isn't"" and on the lookout for truth, justice and the un-American way Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Music
Ballboy @ Cabaret Voltaire
preaching to the choir Read more »| 10 Feb 2007