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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MusicChristmas Songwriters Club @ Leith Docker's Club, 23 Dec
The Christmas Songwriter’s Club adheres to three rules - sort of. One: no covers (apart from Bart Eagleowl’s hesitant attempt at Withered Hand&rs... Read more »| 05 Jan 2010 -
Music
DeSalvo @ Stereo, 19 Dec
The scene is in full effect tonight as a triple bill of local fixtures makes the fur stand up on everyone’s back, ladies included. Openers Gummy Stumps... Read more »| 05 Jan 2010 -
FilmThe Road
John Hillcoat found some of the most disaster-ravaged locations in the world to film his version of Cormac McCarthy’s celebrated novel, The Road. The u... Read more »| 05 Jan 2010 -
Music
A Muso's Top 10: Gift of Gab
Quannum MC and Blackalicious lynchpin Gift of Gab pictures life as Khan from Star Trek II, marooned on a dead planet with a record player and 10 choice slabs... Read more »| 04 Jan 2010 -
MusicYou Me At Six - Hold Me Down
To underestimate angst rock is a dangerous practice. To those who have escaped adolescence in one piece, the aimless yelping of the latest mosh-by-numbers em... Read more »| 04 Jan 2010 -
Theatre
Come On, Dance!
Across Scotland this month, even as the theatre relaxes after the seasonal boom, three dance events are still treading the boards. All of them share a Scotti... Read more »| 04 Jan 2010
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Clubs
Ryan Crosson @ Hotbox, 15 Jan
After giving a Glasgow debut to Lee Curtiss, Hotbox welcomes another member of Detroit techno’s next generation, Ryan Crosson. Belying his strict, mid... Read more »| 04 Jan 2010 -
MusicGift of Gab - Escape 2 Mars
As one half of prolific hip-hop duo Blackalicious, Tim Parker lived up to his alias with a flow that's seen him described by AllMusic as "one of the top MCs ... Read more »| 04 Jan 2010 -
Books
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Master and Margarita, once banned by the Soviets, is now regarded as a classic of Russian Literature. Its plot, concerning what happens when Sata... Read more »| 04 Jan 2010 -
Comedy
Enjoy the Last Laugh at The Dullest Show
However bad life might seem, there are always a host of comics out there more bitter, twisted and broke than you could ever imagine and this dull January, The Skinny is offering you the opportunity to indulge in a little schadenfreude whilst they entertain you. Read more »| 04 Jan 2010 -
Art
State of the Art Nation: To Dundee and beyond
Away from the clamour of other, bigger, metropolitan art sites, Dundee is proving more than capable of holding its own. A thriving, close-knit scene of artis... Read more »| 04 Jan 2010 -
MusicThem Crooked Vultures @ Corn Exchange, 15 Dec
Josh Homme embraces an expectant crowd consisting of – let’s not fool ourselves now – curious Queens, Foos and Zeppelin fans like he&rsquo... Read more »| 02 Jan 2010 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen - January 2010
From George Formby to Mariachi horns, this month's Dozen is as weird as that time Steve Coogan dated Courtney Love. Finbarr Bermingham casts a scrutinous eyeball over January's singles. Read more »| 01 Jan 2010 -
Music
Dark Side of the Falco
Two years after dropping their debut album into the musical ring, Future of the Left returned for round two last year with the brilliant Travels With Myself and Another. Andrew Falkous came out fighting (eventually) to take on writer’s block, success haters and pin-dick journalists, The Skinny steps up to referee before they hit King Tut's this month. Read more »| 01 Jan 2010 -
Music
Thao with The Get Down Stay Down - Know Better, Learn Faster
US singer-songwriter Thao Nguyen's second album in collaboration with The Get Down Stay Down is a singular creature: a break-up record which somehow evokes t... Read more »| 01 Jan 2010