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
Frank Turner @ Oran Mor, 23 Oct
Formerly of hardcore upstarts Million Dead, Frank Turner has spent the last three years touring and refining his punk-folk sound across the UK. And while son... Read more »| 02 Oct 2008 -
Clubs
Magnetic Man @ Fortified Sessions 2nd Birthday, The Art School, Glasgow, 17 Oct
It has been 24 months since the Electric Eliminators exploded on the scene with the Fortified Sessions, spinning tinnitus inducing beats and bass wobble. Join them as they celebrate turning terrible 2. Read more »| 02 Oct 2008 -
Music
Seasick Steve @ The Music Hall, 23 Oct
Dodging a beer cup thrown from the T in the Park crowd, Seasick Steve barked in his deep southern drawl: “Anyone throws any more shit at me and I&rsquo... Read more »| 02 Oct 2008 -
Music
Enjoy Destroy - Enjoy Destroy EP
Contains enough moments of real astute writing to suggest that these guys could learn from their predecessors' mistakes Read more »| 02 Oct 2008 -
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
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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 -
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