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
Subculture, The Subclub, Glasgow, Dec 17
Hypnotic weaves of electro and deep, throbbing grooves Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Theatre
Romeo and Juliet / Blood Wedding
Glasgow's Citizens Theatre gives us a double dose of star-crossed lovers and revenge with a programme that includes both 'Romeo and Juliet' and its modern counterpart 'Blood Wedding'. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Theatre
John Laurie, Frazer & I
The man who plied his wares alongside the likes of Laurence Olivier and Michael Powell is remembered nominally as the counterpart to Lowe and Le Mesuriers's Captain Mannering and Sergeant Wilson. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Theatre
Edward Scissorhands
Tim Burton doesn't automatically conjure images of swan costumes and toe shoes, but choreographer Matthew Bourne has transformed his classic film into a dance, and from London's reception of the new interpretation it looks like it was a good move. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
Sunshine Variety Club - The Girl with the Crooked Smile/Bone Idle Pop Idol
While some may refer to it as ""twee-indie-pish"", I simply can't halt my infatuation with the genre Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicHayley Hutchinson - Independently Blue
It's a song of confusion, of melancholy, but Hutchinson's friendly coo doesn't express anything but pleasantries Read more »| 15 Feb 2006
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MusicShout Out Louds- Please Please Please
You can't mistake a definite Cardigans influence to this resolutely sunny, cheerful pop song Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicThe Early Years - All Ones And Zeros
Spiralling, backward guitars hitch a ride on an insistent Death in Vegas-style rhythm Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicBoy Kill Boy - Back Again
delivers a standard synth-laden indie-angst sound that falls somewhere in between Hard-Fi and ehm, Hard-Fi Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
Kubb - Grow
If I was middle-aged and didn't know anything about music, I would probably think this was ace Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
MusicYour Vegas - Flybuzz
The dubious lyrics, the sweeping guitar, the earnest falsettos - Your Vegas have it all. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
The Magic Numbers - I See You, You See Me
a big, tasteless musical stew Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
Interview - OK GO
What cost the princely sum of $24 to make and was intended as a surprise treat for fans at live shows is fast becoming a fascinating piece of music history. Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
Interview - Bricolage
Bricolage, a term that means making art from whatever is in front of you, are much more than pilfering magpies Read more »| 15 Feb 2006 -
Music
Rise Up - Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Jan 7
Once again, no one came close to OBE tonight. Somebody sign these lads, for god's sake Read more »| 15 Feb 2006