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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Film
Silent Running
While an eco-friendly sci-fi film starring a handful of robots trying to preserve the remnants of the Earth’s plant population may sound familiar to vi... Read more »| 27 Oct 2008 -
Music
The King Hats @ King Tut's, 20 Oct
Hyperactive local boys let rip with energetic punk racket Read more »| 27 Oct 2008 -
Music
Bulleit Originals @ The Arches, 7 Nov
With his dubious experiments of 1907, Dr Duncan MacDougall “proved” that the human soul weighed 21 grams. If it’s true though, the upcoming... Read more »| 27 Oct 2008 -
Music
The Inspector Cluzo - The Inspector Cluzo EP
Somewhere in France, Laurent Lacroutts and Mathieu Jordan have been locked in their bedrooms since 1991 with albums by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Alice in C... Read more »| 27 Oct 2008 -
Film
Hunger
The idea that war is messy and destructive is nothing new. But in Hunger, Steve McQueen’s film on the IRA prisoner Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender), t... Read more »| 27 Oct 2008 -
Music
Smith 6079 - Ghosts
Thematically released EP from Mancunian quintet Read more »| 27 Oct 2008
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Film
Of Time and the City
Gail Tolley talks to the British director Terence Davies about his latest film, a documentary based on his experiences growing up in post-war Liverpool. Read more »| 27 Oct 2008 -
Music
Tom Jones - If He Should Ever Leave You
Tom Jones is back! And, unsurprisingly, it’s all a bit rubbish: anachronistically derivative of the leathery crooner’s ‘glory days’, ... Read more »| 27 Oct 2008 -
Clubs
Classic Grand under new ownership
It has been over two years since Glasgow’s Classic Grand opened its doors to the public, hosting a week long series of free events to celebrate its arr... Read more »| 25 Oct 2008 -
Clubs
Fierce @ The Tunnel, Glasgow 2 Nov
Glasgow’s electro darlings Dolby-Anol have proven themselves to be Scotland’s most valuable asset when it comes to creating the greatest remixes.... Read more »| 24 Oct 2008 -
Music
Dead or American – Thaumaturgy
This is their witching hour Read more »| 24 Oct 2008 -
Clubs
James Holden @ The Caves, Edinburgh, 14 Nov
Kapital music present James Holden on 14 November, who will be playing an extended set within Edinburgh’s excellent venue The Caves. Deep under the fou... Read more »| 24 Oct 2008 -
Music
Punch & the Apostles - I'm a Hobo/Can of Beans
'1930's influenced avant-garde ska-punk swing' is not a genre that one could say was in danger of over-saturating the market, a fact that certainly works in ... Read more »| 24 Oct 2008 -
Music
Euros Childs - Cheer Gone
Presumably sick of the comparisons of his previous band Gorky's Zygotic Mynci to the Super Furry Animals, Welsh crooner Euros Childs has quietly dropped the ... Read more »| 24 Oct 2008 -
Music
Die! Die! Die! - Promises Promises
Testicle-hugging jeans? Check. Converse trainers? Check. Angular guitar riffs? Check. Punchy name? Check. Die! Die! Die! certainly know how to tick the appro... Read more »| 24 Oct 2008