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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MusicV/A - Disco Italia: Essential Italo Disco Classics 1977 - 1985
The influence of ‘Italo’, the Italian disco sound of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, has never been more prevalent than on today’... Read more »| 16 Nov 2008 -
MusicThe Gaslight Anthem @ Garage, 3 Dec
Looking like the kind of bad boys that wary mothers warn their daughters about – replete with tattoos and leather jackets – and sounding like Bru... Read more »| 16 Nov 2008 -
Music
OPERAHOUSE - CHANGE IN NATURE EP
Currently recording their debut album with Embrace’s Richard McNamara producing, Operahouse here offer up four distinctly non-Embrace sounding taster t... Read more »| 16 Nov 2008 -
Film
Conversations with My Gardener
There’s a sense of déjà vu in this pleasant, yet predictable French drama. Our central character, a painter from Paris, returns to the vi... Read more »| 15 Nov 2008 -
Music
Fleet Foxes @ ABC, 8 Nov
They are not merely blogosphere darlings but one of the greatest American bands to emerge in a long, long time Read more »| 14 Nov 2008 -
ComedyMelting Pot Potomaniacs
The Stand's monthly writing showcase suffers a pitch invasion Read more »| 14 Nov 2008
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Music
Neon Neon @ Òran Mór, 6 Nov
Marty!! Time to don those Aviators and jump into the DeLorean. For one night only, we are going back to the future. Well, back to the 80s it would seem, as G... Read more »| 14 Nov 2008 -
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 -
MusicThe 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 -
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