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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MusicGZA / Genius @ ABC, 12 Nov
Glasgow - you'd best protect ya neck, because the Wu-Tang Clan's most potent lyrical swordsman - the GZA (aka The Genius) - is about to tear up the ABC with ... Read more »| 22 Oct 2008 -
MusicOf Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
If you’re looking for a sonic documentation of schizophrenia (outside of Wesley Willis, RIP), you need look no further than Skeletal Lamping. In the mi... Read more »| 22 Oct 2008 -
BooksHave You Seen...?
David Thomson's Biographical Dictionary of Film is pretty essential for any serious film buff. Yet this is the first time that Thomson has produced the obvio... Read more »| 22 Oct 2008 -
Theatre
Otter Pie
Fish and Game promise traditional delicacies with a modern twist. Susannah Radford tastes the special. Read more »| 22 Oct 2008 -
MusicOkkervil River at Òran Mór, 9 Nov Preview
Penners of The Stage Names return to Ecosse Read more »| 22 Oct 2008 -
Theatre
Quiz Nightmare
Gareth K Vile gets the answers wrong and upsets the rest of his team at the latest Tron adventure. Read more »| 22 Oct 2008
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Music
Bloc Party @ Barfly, 19 Oct
Indie heroes fail to disappoint at tiny Glasgow show Read more »| 22 Oct 2008 -
Music
Ladytron @ ABC, 26 Nov
Ladytron’s last Scottish show saw the band battling not only the elements and a crowd subdued by drizzle at the Hydro Connect festival, but also a mid-... Read more »| 22 Oct 2008 -
Theatre
Glasway!
Tramway and Glasgay! team up for experimental art from now and then. Read more »| 22 Oct 2008 -
Books
Spider by Linda Strachan
Spider follows three characters, Andy, Deanna, and of course Spider, with sections told by each. They're teenagers, who go joyriding, and the book is about t... Read more »| 22 Oct 2008 -
Music
Jenny Lewis @ QMU, 18 Oct
Her diminutive form weaves awkwardly among her band like a newborn deer, but Jenny Lewis’s solo efforts away from Rilo Kiley have a bluesy, brassy solidity t... Read more »| 21 Oct 2008 -
Music
Night Marchers @ Captain's Rest, 18 Oct
John “Speedo” Reis' golden touch doesn't appear to have deserted him yet. Along with fellow ex-Hot Snakes Gar Wood and Jason Kournikos, he again ... Read more »| 21 Oct 2008 -
Theatre
Mary Rose
Michael Cox exorcises the spirit of Peter Pan's parent Read more »| 21 Oct 2008 -
MusicThings Get A Little Fucked Up
As Fucked Up's second full-length LP begins to ooze out of speakers across the land, Jorge Marticorena has a nice little chat with frontman Pink Eyes about punk rock, self-induced injuries, hallucinogenic mushrooms, and working out Read more »| 21 Oct 2008 -
Music
The Sontaran Experiment
A work of competent belligerence Read more »| 21 Oct 2008