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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MusicThemselves - CrownsDown
Anticon's crown jewel returns with The No Music of Boom-Bap Read more »| 29 Oct 2009 -
MusicJuliette Lewis @ Glasgow Garage, 21 Oct
Tonight's one of those nights that's all about the main event - consequently, a support band's worst nightmare. However, despite only managing to turn only a... Read more »| 29 Oct 2009 -
Music
Frank Turner @ QMU, 15 Oct
Hailing from hardcore heroes Million Dead, and with his recent album Poetry of the Deed adorned in punk rock iconography, one would expect Frank Turner to sh... Read more »| 29 Oct 2009 -
MusicDigital Leather - Warm Brother
Opening up with a field-recording of wounded analogue synths weeping in deep space before segueing into a dirge about self-destruction on an island of pain i... Read more »| 29 Oct 2009 -
MusicThe Skinny's 50th Issue: I Hear a New Gramophone
To mark the 50th issue of The Skinny, music columnists Milo McLaughlin and Sean Michaels got on the blower (well, Skype) for a transatlantic chinwag about the Scottish music scene and how it's all changed since the magazine began in 2005. Read more »| 29 Oct 2009 -
Music
Warp Week: Nightmares on Wax – The Journey Continues
Veteran producer George ‘DJ E.A.S.E.’ Evelyn, the man behind the sounds of Nightmares on Wax, gives a candid account of his two decades long pilgrimage through acid house, trip-hop and beyond. Read more »| 29 Oct 2009
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ClubsDrums of Death @ Playdate, 28 Nov
Shock, horror and make up. Read more »| 29 Oct 2009 -
Books
Please Praise Gray's Plays...
The Skinny is helping to launch an Alasdair Gray Book - want to come? Read more »| 28 Oct 2009 -
Music
Warp Week: Hudson Mohawke melts genres like Butter!
Our November cover star Hudson Mohawke doesn’t sound like anything else that’s come before – or at least, not for long. The rising star of genre-defying, thrill-a-minute underground uber-pop tells us why he can’t sit still. Read more »| 28 Oct 2009 -
Music
Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land
Frightened Rabbit's success is based on nothing resembling modernity: ever since the first lovesick caveman grunted a tune, his descendants have been... Read more »| 28 Oct 2009 -
Music
The Raincoats: Unacceptable in the 80s
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Raincoats' seminal debut with its first commercial issue in 10 years this month, founding member Gina Birch recalls a world of possibilities during the formative years of the cult all-female post-punk outfit. Read more »| 28 Oct 2009 -
Clubs
Halloween Clubbing 2009
A look at what you can expect in clubs across the country this Halloween weekend. Apart from people dressed as the various stages of Michael Jackson's life. Read more »| 28 Oct 2009 -
Theatre
Master Gaga
He comes from New York, via the RSAMD and displays a Glaswegian caustic humour. Will the real Drew Taylor please stand up? Read more »| 28 Oct 2009 -
Music
Warp Records: They Came from the Future
As Warp Records blows out twenty candles, The Skinny talks to a cast of characters from its intimidating roster about the indelible mark the UK's biggest independent label has made on popular music. Read more »| 27 Oct 2009 -
Music
Under the Influence: Melvins' Buzz Osborne
Melvins frontman Buzz Osborne takes to his hammock, engages the caps lock and lifts the lid on his desert island discs Read more »| 27 Oct 2009