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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MusicA Silent Film - The City That Sleeps
11 doses of well-spoken, middle-class melodrama Read more »| 26 Sep 2008 -
MusicScars On Broadway @ ABC, 20 Sep
New project from SOAD men packs an aural punch Read more »| 26 Sep 2008 -
ClubsDettman goes Off The Record
Staple of Glasgow’s Soundhaus and just shy of their 5th Birthday, house and techno night Off The Record welcome Marcel Dettman this month Read more »| 26 Sep 2008 -
Books
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: So Many Ways to Sleep Badly
Hot on the heels of an expanded second edition of That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is back on the scene with a new novel. Alma Cork joins the dots. Read more »| 26 Sep 2008 -
Music
Max Tundra - Will Get Fooled Again
The carnage of old Amiga 500s ripped apart to be here is sizeable Read more »| 26 Sep 2008 -
MusicDrever, McCusker and Woomble: Folk to the power of three
Kris Drever, John McCusker and Roddy Woomble talk to Paul Mitchell about chance meetings, moody rock kids and how to make folk go pop Read more »| 26 Sep 2008
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Music
Lykke Li @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9 Oct
An appearance by Lykke Li at Cabaret Voltaire brings with it the promise of sunny pop, even as summer becomes an obscure memory in Auld Reekie. Well-inform... Read more »| 26 Sep 2008 -
MusicFucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
It’s the same old Fucked Up sound—but a bit more epic Read more »| 26 Sep 2008 -
Theatre
Arches Live! 2008
Gareth K Vile descends beneath the earth and enjoys the variety he finds there. Read more »| 26 Sep 2008 -
Music
Damien Jurado - Caught In the Trees
Damien Jurado is nothing if not eclectic; having forged an experimental path during the last decade, his sound has migrated from introspective folk to the ou... Read more »| 26 Sep 2008 -
Music
Jocasta Sleeps @ Wee Red Bar, 10 Oct
Melodic Glasgow rockers embark on a short Scottish tour Read more »| 26 Sep 2008 -
Music
The All New Adventures of Us - Best Loved Goodnight Tales
Singing about holding hands and making shadow puppets - would it be rude to stab a guess that these guys are all still virgins? Read more »| 26 Sep 2008 -
Music
Catfish Haven - Devastator
At their core, Catfish Haven are essentially a rock act, however with third album Devastator they diversify further; tracing a pendulum swing of musical styl... Read more »| 26 Sep 2008 -
Music
Land of Talk - Some are Lakes
Some are Lakes is basically a hipster's favourite album from the mid to late 90s - reanimated, cleaned-up and put to work for a new generation. The album's m... Read more »| 26 Sep 2008 -
Music
The Mill Presents: Ross Clark and dBass
From opposite ends of the musical spectrum, Ross Clark & the Scarfs Go Missing and dBass are up and coming Scottish acts with shared interests at heart. Finbarr Bermingham profiles both acts ahead of their respective performances at The Mill this month Read more »| 26 Sep 2008