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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Theatre
Grease
This production is loud, ostentatious and over the top - exactly as Grease should be. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Clubs
Hip-Hop Column by Bram Gieben
You'd be a damn fool to miss Breakestra Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Clubs
The Hacker & Speedy J, Pressure, The Arches, Jan 27
This month's Pressure was as always, a dance party gone beautifully mad. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
MusicSean Paul - Temperature
Sean sounds as if he's impersonating himself being played at the wrong speed Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
Union of Knives plus support, Cabaret Voltaire Edinburgh Feb 15
slightly more style than substance Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
Amplifico - Cabaret Voltaire @ Edinburgh
Even the more skeptical back rows seemed to be drawn in by Donna Maciocia's vocals and those that got too close were pushed back on the floor with the punch of a dirty bass line Read more »| 17 Mar 2006
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Theatre
A Midsummer Night's Dream
(not sure about star rating yet, Marcie is getting back to me) Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Clubs
Williams - Beyond 'Love Crisis' WEB
An undiscovered gem, the kind of music you want to tell all your friends about
THIS IS LONG WEB VERSION PLEASE ALEX MY MAN! Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
The Slackers - 'Peculiar'
Easygoing skank that just makes life better. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Art
The Aspect Prize
Supporting the current rage for painting, the Aspect Prize is an extraordinarily generous prize that offers fifteen thousand pounds for the winner and five t... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Art
Julian Goethe - Beams Are Gonna Find Me - Sorcha Dallas
Described as 'post-functional' interior design, Goethe's work employs found objects and mirrors to make objects that resemble a baroque take on minimalism. W... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Art
Luke Fowler- The Modern Institute
A homecoming for the globetrotting wunderkind, Fowler's exhibition at the gallery that represents him sees a showing of his film 'Pilgrimage from Scattered P... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Art
Ant Farm - The Lighthouse
Famous for staging media events, which take their form from a synthesis of sixties-style happenings and staged televisual events, Ant Farm commented upon a m... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Theatre
The Leningrad Siege
A clever piece of entertainment - the friends are sensitively and humourously written, translated and acted. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Theatre
Conversations in Havana
From the first piercing image of Che (Gerald Kyd) sitting in an army jacket coughing, smoking and downing mugs of something clear, lethal and probably Cuban,... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006