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
Choke
Clark Gregg's strangled adaptation of lit cult favourite Chuck Palahniuk's novel of masculine malaise really wants to be an edgy, twisted little indie satire... Read more »| 14 Nov 2008 -
Music
The Sadies @ Cabaret Voltaire, 26 Oct
The irony of Luke Doucet’s (**) attempt to regale a roomful of Scots with a story about his song bombing in a hall full of chatty Russian ex-pats is no... Read more »| 14 Nov 2008 -
Film
Blindness
"It feels like I'm swimming in milk." The White Sickness begins with a young professional struck blind while behind the wheel. An abrupt affliction of unkn... Read more »| 14 Nov 2008 -
Music
Sigur Ros @ Carling Academy, 6 Nov
You may have loved the 27 or so times you’ve seen Back to the Future, but you simply can’t deny the grandeur of the one and only time you saw 200... Read more »| 13 Nov 2008 -
Clubs
TBC - Together Beat Cancer @ Glasgow School of Art, 22 Nov
Cancer Research UK and 32 Music join forces for TBC – Together Beats Cancer. Read more »| 13 Nov 2008 -
Music
The Melvins: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!
Chris Cusack speaks to Buzz Osborne and finds it ironic that his band, perhaps more than any other, lie at the root of grunge's messy ascension into the mainstream and the compromise of punk ethics that saga entailed. Read more »| 12 Nov 2008
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Music
Liam Finn - Better To Be
Making a name for yourself in music must be pretty difficult if that name has already been firmly established by a successful parent. Unlike Sean Lennon or J... Read more »| 11 Nov 2008 -
Theatre
We're The Believers and Daniel Hit By a Train
Gareth K Vile searches for answers in the Glasgow underground. Read more »| 11 Nov 2008 -
Theatre
Taking Care of Business: The Caretaker
Mhairi Graham sees a classic brought to life, and glimpses a lost time. Read more »| 10 Nov 2008 -
Music
Silibil 'n' Brains: the Prank they're Making into a Film
If you were down with your American hip hop back in, say, 2003, you may have distant, hazy memories of a Californian rap duo who came bursting onto the scene, touted by some as the next big rap import from the West Coast. They were called Silibil 'n' Brains, a cheeky, outspoken hip hop outfit from Hemet, California. They had a record deal with Sony and Jonathan Shalit, a.k.a. The Man Who Discovered Charlotte Church for a manager. They were living the high life – private parties, all access passes, award ceremonies, cash, girls... Read more »| 10 Nov 2008 -
Music
Bonehead Don’t Look Back In Anger
Having spent much of the last eight years moonlighting with various bands - most notably recording a clutch of demos with half of The Smiths in his basement ... Read more »| 10 Nov 2008 -
Film
Director Olly Blackburn talks Donkey Punch
Michael Gillespie talks to up-and-coming writer-director Olly Blackburn about his debut feature, Donkey Punch, released on DVD November 10. Read more »| 10 Nov 2008 -
Theatre
Petronio vs Phoenix: Phoenix Dance Company and Stephen Petronio
Gareth K Vile braves the city centre to expand his knowledge of dance Read more »| 10 Nov 2008 -
Film
Kung Fu Panda
Jack Black in a funny movie? No it’s not School Of Rock 2. Kung Fu Panda is about Po, a portly panda who works in a noodle shop with dreams of becoming... Read more »| 10 Nov 2008 -
Film
Sordid Lives
Alfred Hitchcock once said that the problem with so many movies was that they were essentially “filmed plays”. Sordid Lives is one such beast, no... Read more »| 10 Nov 2008