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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Music
Catz 'n' Dogz - Stars of the Zoo
Better known for their work as 3 Channels with releases on Crosstown Rebels, Trapez, Pokerflat and pretty much every other underground techno label, Poland&r... Read more »| 02 Oct 2008 -
Books
Ever Had a Day Like These?
Here’s one from the department of phenomenally good ideas: The Scottish Book Trust and BBC Scotland have teamed up for a project called ‘Days Lik... Read more »| 02 Oct 2008 -
Film
Chemical Wedding
If Wayne and Garth got the budget to make a film, they'd probably make Chemical Wedding. It's dire beyond belief, but... cripplingly, cringingly funny in pa... Read more »| 02 Oct 2008 -
Clubs
DJ Chart - Âme
1. Tokyo Blackstar - Game Over (Locodice remix) (Innervisions) Fantastic remix from the Locodice/Buttrich camp for our own label Innervisions; it's a journe... Read more »| 02 Oct 2008 -
Clubs
Optimo @ Origin, Aberdeen, 18 Oct
This deserves a good mention on a couple of counts. First up, the Optimo duo of JD Twitch and JG Wilkes bring a party soundtrack to the club experience that ... Read more »| 02 Oct 2008 -
Music
Mogwai @ The Corn Exchange, 21 Oct
There's probably someone out there that hasn't heard about Mogwai. Some bearded, shuffling hermit, dragging behind him a shopping bag full of old newspapers.... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008
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Film
Burn to Shine
The mandate for Burn to Shine is simple: find a house that is due to be demolished; recruit a number of local bands to play there; film the demolition of the... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
Music
I Hear a New World - Fence Records Special (Part Two)
An entirely rational flurry of Fence love picks up from where it left off last issue Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
Music
Metal Up Your Ass - October, 2008
For those of us not fooled by rampant tapping, This is Our Battlefield collective delivers a gig of some substance as Gainesville's Young Livers hit the 13th Note on the 10th Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
Music
Neon Neon: Acceptable in the Noughties
Neon Neon may not have won the Mercury Music Prize, but arriving for the event in a pair of time-travelling cars (if Emmett ‘Doc’ Brown had his way) with lego-brick medallions hanging from their necks, the eccentric duo could not be missed. The album is equally colourful, but Nick Mitchell hears that it took real creative discipline to make it. Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
Music
Live Music Highlights - October, 2008
Superhotrightnow threepiece Johnny Foreigner deal in adrenalin-soaked scuzz pop and their gig at Edinburgh’s Cabaret Voltaire is one of this month’s hottest tickets Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
Music
Tune Up 2008/09 @ Various Venues Across Scotland, Oct-Jan
With the four major cities in Scotland blessed with vibrant music scenes, it's easy to assume that the quadrant that exists between The Lemontree, The Barrow... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen - October, 2008
Another month, another motley mélange of lad-rock veterans, zingy pop tarts, moody rappers and local upstarts. Nick Mitchell wades in... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
Music
Tindersticks @ City Hall, Glasgow, 5 Oct
11 years is an eon in musical terms: between the years 1997 and 2008 we have borne witness to the demise of Britpop, the stillbirth that was nu-metal, and th... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
Music
The Spinto Band @ Oran Mor, 29 Sep
When the six zany members of The Spinto Band hop, skip and jump on stage to play their equally mental brand of kazoo-fusion indie-pop, pulling funny faces an... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008