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
The Being, Ivory Blacks, Glasgow, 4 Apr
Going on the evidence of previous gigs, each set is guaranteed to contain at least one line worth the entrance fee in itself. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Music
Amplifico - See Heart, See Muscle
A well-refined beast, with a bit of everything Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Music
Blood Red Shoes - Box Of Secrets
Overall a fine, if rather derivative, debut Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
Silicon Scally (live), Miso, The Ivy, Glasgow, 12 Apr
Carl Finlow makes his Miso debut this month under his Silicon Scally guise. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
Robert Hood, Kontrol v Jackhammer, Studio 24, Edinburgh, 4 Apr
Edinburgh's Kontrol and Jackhammer join forces to welcome Detroit techno lynchpin Robert Hood this month. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Music
Ladyhawk - Shots
An independently-minded masterpiece Read more »| 01 Apr 2008
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Clubs
Quarion (live), Trouble, Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, 4 Apr
This month Trouble gives producer Yanneck Salvo his Quarion UK debut. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
Jason Hodges, Telefunken, Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, 11 Apr
Hodges certainly knows how to work a crowd. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
Bass Fiction (aka Kode9 and Spaceape live), Electric Eliminators, The Art School, Glasgow, 18 April
It appears they know no bounds. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Music
Jamie Lidell - Jim
Jim mostly comprises jaunty, up-beat soul-pop that'd perfectly fit on any sunny day-time radio playlist Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
Get Wired In - A Wireblock Records label special
The Skinny talks with Neil Morton about why collaboration can often produce the best outcome... Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
V/A - No Rave
Little Rock's No Rave sampler is an aural fuck-you to scensterism, glowstick chic and The Klaxons, expressed in the crudest terms. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
V/A by Boys Noize - Bugged Out! Presents Suck My Deck
Heavy, thumping drums, blippy synth and brilliantly syncopated beats superbly compliment the seamless transitions between the smooth, house sounds and scraping, Justice-style cut ups Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
Moby - Last Night
Last Night is a return to the style of his breakthrough album Play, with Moby foregoing his own vocals to rely on guests and samples. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
Kuniyuki Takahashi - All These Things
It's very much an after-hours club disc, to be put on while letting the night slowly seep out of your head. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008