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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MusicIsis @ Stereo, 25 Oct
"Sorry it's not heavy metal" breathes Mothlite's flickering frontman, a statement met with many a curious glare. Because the swathes of fans packed in the cu... Read more »| 30 Oct 2009 -
BooksRock and Roll Tourist by Graham Forbes
The entertainment pedigree of booking a train ticket online can hardly compete with a stadium gig by U2. It's lucky, then, that the great strength of this se... Read more »| 30 Oct 2009 -
Theatre
Even in Another Time
Rather than develop a single play, Wendy Miller made the adventurous choice to present three fragments, all performed with understated skill by Helen Cuinn and Rachel Amey. Read more »| 30 Oct 2009 -
MusicPablo - Turntable Technology
A genre defying double debut album from Pablo, the man behind the soundtrack to Scottish success story Grand Theft Auto. Read more »| 30 Oct 2009 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen - November 2009
Lyricists take note: "ghost" and "toast" can never be sensibly rhymed, 'cos Ally Brown says so. Read more »| 30 Oct 2009 -
Music
Warp Week: Chris Clark & Tim Exile – The Performer Versus the Perfectionist
Two of Warp Records’ most innovative young producers talk about their experiences of working with the label, and where their differing approaches to electronic music have led them. Read more »| 30 Oct 2009
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Music
ATP Presents: Les Savy Fav @ ABC2, 24 Oct
Somewhere on the universal moral spectrum - considerably closer to Nick Griffin than Gandhi - lie people who talk during movies. Sure, ABC2 is an unlikely ve... Read more »| 29 Oct 2009 -
MusicThemselves - CrownsDown
Anticon's crown jewel returns with The No Music of Boom-Bap Read more »| 29 Oct 2009 -
Music
Juliette 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 -
Music
Digital 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 -
Music
The 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 -
Clubs
Drums of Death @ Playdate, 28 Nov
Shock, horror and make up. Read more »| 29 Oct 2009 -
BooksPlease Praise Gray's Plays...
The Skinny is helping to launch an Alasdair Gray Book - want to come? Read more »| 28 Oct 2009