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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TheatreTraversing New Ground: Traverse Programme Autumn/Winter '08/'09
Agata Maslowska looks at a couple of new strands in the Traverse's New Writing programme Read more »| 28 Oct 2008 -
BooksThe Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman, in addition to being the award winning graphic novelist who wrote the Sandman series amongst other things, and the award winning writer of print... Read more »| 28 Oct 2008 -
Theatre
Snow Clowning
Michael Cox braves an unseasonal storm on the West Coast Read more »| 28 Oct 2008 -
MusicShred Yr Face @ Glasgow School of Art, 18 Oct
Even the art school kids can let loose tonight. Times New Viking inaugurate both the shredding of yr face and the mutualisation of yr Tennent's with a handfu... Read more »| 27 Oct 2008 -
MusicDe Rosa versus Found @ Nice 'n' Sleazy, 15 Nov
De Rosa versus Found, Chemikal Underground versus the Fence Collective, Glasgow versus Edinburgh, poignant and delicate melodic folk-pop versus eclectic expe... Read more »| 27 Oct 2008 -
Clubs
Men & Machines feat. Efdemin @ Stereo, Glasgow, 22 Nov
Scottish first for respected German producer Read more »| 27 Oct 2008
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MusicTV on the Radio @ ABC, 16 Nov
If you could have levelled one accusation at TV on the Radio following their 2006 breakthrough record Return to Cookie Mountain it might have been a certain ... Read more »| 27 Oct 2008 -
Music
Seasick Steve @ Barrowland, 21 Oct
“I took the train from Liverpool today,” drawls Seasick Steve, and the crowd inexplicably woop and cheer. It appears that, much like his music, t... Read more »| 27 Oct 2008 -
Music
Funeral For A Friend @ ABC, 18 Oct
Welsh emo stalwarts return with phoned-in crowd pleaser Read more »| 27 Oct 2008 -
Clubs
Bass Syndicate @ The Bongo Club/Liquid Room, Edinburgh, 7 and 22 Nov
Two big nights from the Bass Syndicate people this month. On 7 November they present the head of Lot 49 Records, Surrey-based music producer Meat Katie at th... Read more »| 27 Oct 2008 -
Film
Silent Running
While an eco-friendly sci-fi film starring a handful of robots trying to preserve the remnants of the Earth’s plant population may sound familiar to vi... Read more »| 27 Oct 2008 -
Music
The King Hats @ King Tut's, 20 Oct
Hyperactive local boys let rip with energetic punk racket Read more »| 27 Oct 2008 -
Music
Bulleit Originals @ The Arches, 7 Nov
With his dubious experiments of 1907, Dr Duncan MacDougall “proved” that the human soul weighed 21 grams. If it’s true though, the upcoming... Read more »| 27 Oct 2008 -
Music
The Inspector Cluzo - The Inspector Cluzo EP
Somewhere in France, Laurent Lacroutts and Mathieu Jordan have been locked in their bedrooms since 1991 with albums by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Alice in C... Read more »| 27 Oct 2008 -
Film
Hunger
The idea that war is messy and destructive is nothing new. But in Hunger, Steve McQueen’s film on the IRA prisoner Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender), t... Read more »| 27 Oct 2008