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
Sweet Urban Beats: East Coast Aesthetics (Web version)
Alex Burden and Ian Brandon talk spirituality, television presenting and growing up in Westerhailes with brother and sister hip hop group Sweet E and ODC. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Clubs
Fast!, The Bongo Club, Edinburgh, Sept 8
The resident DJs kept things lively with a mix that ranged from the obscure to classic to contemporary Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Books
John Connolly Loses Things...
Snow White and her seven buddies add a Pythonesque comedy touch. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Books
Idea in Stone - Hamish MacDonald (Self-published)
The characters are paper thin, clichéd and unbearable Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
MusicHusky Rescue - Diamonds in the Sky
a crystal-clear, near-literal example of the much-maligned 'chill out' genre Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
Liam Frost and the Slowdown Family - The City Is At Standstill
threatens to pull Mr Frost and his brethren dangerously close to mainstream mega-sales Read more »| 13 Oct 2006
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Music
Friends Outreach Programme - The First Step EP
Lyrical threats to ""stroke your face"" and ""jizz in your hat"" cannot be so easily forgiven. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
Sound Team - Born to Please
Lying somewhere between the Arcade Fire and Echo & the Bunnymen Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
MusicThe Long Blondes - Once And Never Again
A song you'll enjoy once, and possibly never again. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
Flipron - The End of Summer
the bouncing, jazzy efforts of their talented pianist lighten the mood considerably Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
Dawn of The Replicants - Skullcrusher (Remixes) (SL Records)
The original simply has more bite; with its stomping NIN drums, it is an altogether spikier, more dramatic proposition Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
The Apple Scruffs @ The Admiral
a tight, jerky set crammed with catchy, raucous numbers you'll be humming three days later Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
MusicThe Library Trust - The A to Z of Mathematics
a muffled, slow burning record that mourns in solitude. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
Maria McKee - Live Acoustic Tour 2006
Terrific, brilliant, excellent, marvellous and wonderful... Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
Liam Frost and the Slowdown Family - Show Me How The Spectres Dance
disturbingly good Read more »| 13 Oct 2006