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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ClubsLost Idol - Utters from a Cluttered Mind
A wonderful musical journey Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
ClubsKid Koala - Your Mom's Favourite DJ
The hip-hop equivalent of having your tummy tickled. Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
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Gagarin - Ard Nev
The mere mention of 'avant-grime' evokes a nasty prospect - the broadsheet-friendly dilution of a vital and still nascent underground scene. Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
Books
The Last Man Who Knew Everything - Andrew Robinson
Thomas Young, the anonymous polymath who proved Newton wrong, explained how we see, cured the sick, and deciphered the Rosetta Stone, among other feats of genius Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
MusicKasabian - 'Empire'
Despite their own lofty claims, Kasabian's second album is not the best guitar album of our times. Far from it, in fact. Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
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The River Detectives - Blue Collar love Song
An appendage to the genre without being a notable addition. Read more »| 13 Sep 2006
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Music
Dashboard Confessional - Don't Wait [Vagrant]
Dashboard Confessional find a formulaic three-chord trick that works and run with it Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
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The Needles: No More Beans In Aberdeen
A struggle can be a good thing for a musician àyou'll either create something out of nothing or sit at home watching telly and eating beans Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
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Rooster - Circles and Satellites
Slightly more credible than Busted, Circles and Satellites is consistent, but too generic to have any real highlights Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
Books
Lost Girls
Alan Moore rewrites three children's classics as stories of sexual awakening, to create a work that confronts every taboo in the book. Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
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Creative Writing - 'Mad Aunt's Tea Party'
By a wooden garden table and chairs, there sits a mad auntClip-shears freely wander the chairsDrops of vodka make a warm journey from the glassTo the gullets... Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
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The Man Who Knew Too Much - David Leavitt
it borrows too heavily from other works to ever really become the unique and accessible biography it aims to be Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
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The Fate of the Artist - Eddie Campbell
it hardly reads as something soul-baring enough to deserve a larger audience Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
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Deogratias - J.P. Stassen
it might just change your perception of both comic books and the genocide Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
Books
A.L.I.E.E.E.N. - Lewis Trondheim
If I accept 'A.L.I.E.E.E.N.'s central conceit - that it is an alien comic book, discovered in a crater in the American Catskills - then the first observation... Read more »| 13 Sep 2006