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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ClubsWanderlust: Destination Venues for your Clubbing Holiday
Forget the bitter winter of Scotland and the recession. Chris Duncan looks at where to blow that winter heating budget on a lavish trip to some of the finest clubs that the globe has to offer. Read more »| 17 Dec 2008 -
MusicVA - The Glasgow School Of Art Goes Pop
From Orange Juice to Belle and Sebastian, Glasgow’s pop pedigree is widely celebrated, but the city won't go resting on its laurels. Leeds label Art Go... Read more »| 17 Dec 2008 -
Music
Debbie Leggo - Car Crash Crowd
London quartet Debbie Leggo release their first single, Car Crash Crowd, an ambitious concept single in which "street poet" Gerry Mitchell plays an artist's ... Read more »| 17 Dec 2008 -
FilmLost and Delirious
A brief synopsis of Lost and Delirious suggests “The Rampage of the Cliché Monster”: a coming-of-age tale set in an all girls’ boarding school, the story fo... Read more »| 17 Dec 2008 -
MusicNorman Lamont - Roadblock
Norman Lamont (don’t, he’s probably sick of it) is a well-known singer / songwriter on the Edinburgh acoustic scene, and Roadblock is his third a... Read more »| 17 Dec 2008 -
Comedy
Limmy: Comedy 2.0
Cult internet comedian Limmy swaps screens this month for his first TV show. Euan Ferguson talks to him to find out if the future of online comedy is actually on the telly. Read more »| 16 Dec 2008
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Clubs
Bleep @ Pivo Pivo, 3 Jan
Consider the rumours confirmed and cast all doubt from your mind. The 'Brazilian Love Machine' that is Carlos Adolfo Dominguez will be giving his last ever l... Read more »| 16 Dec 2008 -
Art
Two Alasdairs Retrospective
Apart from their name and the fact that they attended Glasgow School of Art, Alasdair Gray and Alasdair Taylor do not appear at first glance to have a lot in... Read more »| 16 Dec 2008 -
Music
The Vaselines @ ABC, 12 Dec
"The last time we played in Glasgow we were paid £12.50 and two tabs of acid." This is the Vaselines' first official gig in their home city for two dec... Read more »| 16 Dec 2008 -
Music
Slipknot @ SECC, 8 Dec
Much more mayhem than anyone could hope for on a Monday night by the Clyde Read more »| 16 Dec 2008 -
Music
WhiskyCats - WhiskyCats
WhiskyCats play a sort of world-influenced knees-up skiffle, a sound that places them on the dangerously fine line between quirky and annoying. It’s a ... Read more »| 16 Dec 2008 -
Music
Nightmare Before Christmas 2008 @ Butlins, Minehead, 5-7 Dec
To some people, the idea of an event curated by Mike Patton and The Melvins is enough to keep them up at night, excitedly memorising Mr Bungle lyrics and try... Read more »| 15 Dec 2008 -
Music
Always Read the Label: One Little Indian
Spawned in the depression of Thatcherism, One Little Indian has become one of the UK’s finest Indies. Twenty-four years on from the label’s conception, Billy Hamilton finds Digital Manager Tony McColl talking up its continued evolution... Read more »| 15 Dec 2008 -
Music
Ten Kens For Ten Tracks
Compared with a multitude of indie luminaries, Ten Kens' debut LP was one of 2008's forgotten gems. So, in the middle of a recent UK tour, Billy Hamilton cornered vocalist Dan Workman to find out who this Toronto ensemble really are Read more »| 15 Dec 2008 -
Music
Metallica – All Nightmare Long
The fifth offering from the mighty ‘Tallica’s Death Magnetic not only sees a true return to form but probably one of the best tracks to be record... Read more »| 15 Dec 2008