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
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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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Ben Folds - Way to Normal
Ben Folds is a musician best described as ‘having his moments’. After three full-lengths with Ben Folds Five - each with hits outweighing misses ... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008
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Art
A Post-Graduate Survival Guide Part II: Sorcha Dallas interview
As Sorcha Dallas prepares to take her wares to the Frieze Art Fair, Rosamund West caught up with her to talk artists’ representation, commercial galleries and the Glasgow School. Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
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Kill Your Timid Notion @ DCA
Arika, the team behind Glasgow’s Instal festival, return to Dundee with another helping of Kill Your Timid Notion. For those who have missed the previo... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
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Neville Rae at Sierra Metro
2008 is starting to feel like a year of new beginnings in Edinburgh’s art world. First The Embassy were cruelly evicted from their gallery (to make way... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
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Rolo Tomassi @ Barfly, 26 Sep
One polite 'thank you' later and tinnitus is all that remains of their strident brilliance Read more »| 30 Sep 2008 -
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Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
A marked, misanthropic lunge away from the the tone of their previous rapturous output Read more »| 30 Sep 2008 -
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United Fruit - Shake
United Fruit's rapid realisation of their potential, especially live, has been nothing less than remarkable Read more »| 30 Sep 2008 -
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Hjaltalín - Sleepdrunk Seasons
Iceland’s Hjaltalín arrive with a healthy amount of homegrown success behind them, topping their domestic charts and being crowned ‘Bright... Read more »| 30 Sep 2008 -
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These Arms Are Snakes – Tail Swallower and Dove
Forged from parts set adrift after the disbandment of post-hardcore heroes Botch and Kill Sadie, These Arms Are Snakes suggest they’re still searching ... Read more »| 30 Sep 2008 -
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Found - You're Really Quite The Catch
It feels like rasping Found frontman Ziggy, the drinking man’s Paolo Nutini, scrawled this inappropriately acerbic anti-love ballad to an unsuitable gi... Read more »| 30 Sep 2008