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
Land of Talk - Speak to Me Bones
A lot of fuss over nothing. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
MusicQueens Of The Stone Age @ The Corn Exchange, 9 Feb
There's a pleasing mechanical veneer to the Queens tonight, though you have to wonder what's making them tick. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
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Okkervil River at Cabaret Voltaire
For a band whose best art recounts the business of individuals, Okkervil River's live performance is a celebration of the unit, showcasing their collective excellence as a band Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
MusicEnon @ Cabaret Voltaire
Brilliantly crafted punk rock. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Music
British Sea Power @ The Arches, 26 Jan
A thumbnail sketch of what attracted us to British Sea Power in the first place. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
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Black Francis @ The Garage, 10 Feb
A merely satisfactory performance given extra credence due to Black's impressive legacy. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008
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Comedy
The Amazing Bastards' Amazing Column
As amazing and as bastardly as we The Amazing Bastards are it is the audience, at The Amazing Bastards, that are the really amazing bastards. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Books
Doug Johnstone at Aye Write!
Drug-fuelled punch-ups and seagull massacres anyone? Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Clubs
You Don't Know Pt 2: Cadence Weapon
In our continuing feature, we take the opportunity to check in with Cadence Weapon, another new and upcoming artist on the Big Dada label Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
FilmThe Other Boleyn Girl
A perfectly decent period drama. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
FilmRambo
The sparse plot is just a placeholder for some spectacular action. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Theatre
Testing the Echo @ Traverse
the widening gap between governmental legislation and everyday life.
Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Music
Meshuggah: Destroy, Erase, Improve
Tech metal, math metal, call it what you will. Fact is, the ill rhythms of this Swedish quintet have influenced too many of the great bastions of modern metal to mention. Tomas Haake tells Jamie Borthwick why Meshuggah are still the underdogs Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
FilmFour Minutes
Pulls no punches when it comes to the bleak reality of life inside a women's prison. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Music
New Blood: Take A Worm For A Walk Week
Making kids cry is the name of the game as Jamie Borthwick talks jockstraps with one of Glasgow's finest up-and-coming bands, one of our picks for 2008 Read more »| 06 Mar 2008