Music
The Skinny magazine music guide. We bring you the latest music highlights, gig reviews and previews, music videos, album reviews and features. Find exclusive interviews with local bands and international stars, bespoke playlists and video premieres.
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Live Music
Dark Little Poet @ Barfly
With a stage presence and a sharp dress sense, Dark Little Poet's anthemic indie rock soon gets the crowd dancing. Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
ReviewsIndigo Moss - Indigo Moss
Sometimes, in late, whisky fuelled nights, what Indigo Moss do might make sense. Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Live Music
All Tomorrow's Parties: The Nightmare Before Christmas @ Butlins
A fine weekend for fans of the nosier and ""free of form"" inclination Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Reviews
The Hours - Back When You Were Good
Ali In The Jungle', only with the tempo dial turned well towards ""ballad"" Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
ReviewsThe Good, The Bad And The Queen - Kingdom of Doom
synths float through drifting guitars that borrow heavily from Simon Tong's old band mate, Nick McCabe. Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Spider Simpson - Heavy Metal Machine
The fact that Spider Simpson fit so much plagiarism into one coherent song is an achievement in itself. Read more »| 10 Feb 2007
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Reviews
Rob McCulloch - Six of One
Six too many? Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Reviews
Little Barrie - Pin That Badge
A mangled disparity of style. Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Little Barrie - Love You
caught between breathless enthusiasm and insinuating sensuality Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Just Jack - Starz In Their Eyes
teenage rhymes, poppy dance beats and crass social commentary: over-produced, manufactured agit-prop Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Household - 20/20
Music teeming with youthful exuberance and brusque ennui in equal measure Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Dirty Fuzz - Tell Your Mama
a mediocre rocker is reduced to a passionless parody Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Dan Sartain - Flight of the Finch
Sartain creates a pastiche of melodramatic balladry without crass parody, sounding simultaneously knowing and involved Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
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Assembly Now - Leigh On Sea
fails to inject much urgency, originality or imagination into short bursts of energy Read more »| 10 Feb 2007 -
Interviews
James Brown - An Obituary
Arguably the single most influential musician of the 20th Century, James Brown couldn't read music or understand concepts like time signatures, scales and chord changes. Read more »| 10 Feb 2007