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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ReviewsThe Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
...simple, yet thoroughly melodic stories of love told with eloquent honesty. Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
ReviewsPaolo Nutini - Jenny Don't Be Hasty
A rough-cut sound beyond his years; this has a sound that's bound to go transatlantic Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
Live Music
iLiKETRAiNS @ The Arches, 11 Aug
With a name like iLiKETRAiNS, playing a disused tunnel in which you can hear the faint rumblings of passing carriages must be a wet dream. But unleashing slo... Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
Playlists
The Easy Gramophone ft Sunparlour Players
5 songs you can legally download and listen to - free Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
ReviewsThe Aliens - The Happy Song
only briefly teasing the ears Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
ReviewsAlamos - Alamos
Just because you're angry, doesn't mean you can't be melodic. Read more »| 13 Sep 2006
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Festivals
The Hairth
one the most relaxed, friendliest, and playful festivals around Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
Live Music
The Beautiful Girls @ Cabaret Voltaire
The chilled out tunes they produce are lovely to listen to, washing over you like afternoon sunlight Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Live Music
Mikelangelo & The Black Sea Gentlemen (SkinnyFest3)
If ever there was a time for Austrailian polka loving comedy bands, then surely this is it. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Live Music
Eric Bogle (SkinnyFest3)
this is easy listening folk, smoothed and tamed, dealing in generalisation and rarely evoking poignancy Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Live Music
T on the Fringe: Michael Franti & Spearhead @ Corn Exchange
If you didn't know one Michael Franti tune or had never even heard of him it wouldn't have mattered, this was a perfect gig Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Interviews
The Dresden Dolls (SkinnyFest3)
I don't think the audience needs to lose themselves.
I'd rather they found themselves. I'd rather, in fact, that they found
each other Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Live Music
The Spaghetti Western Orchestra (SkinnyFest3)
a tight show coupled with comic theatre and the ability to leave any audience in fits Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Live Music
T on the Fringe: Little Man Tate @ Cabaret Voltaire
more slapdash Molotov cocktail than destructive cruise missile acumen Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Live Music
Havana Rumba! (SkinnyFest3)
fans of percussive rumba will enjoy the rhythms and the theatricality is stunning
Read more »| 14 Aug 2006