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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Music
Little Joy - Little Joy
Surely nobody was thinking of That's The Story Of My Life and After Hours when The Strokes and The Velvet Underground were being routinely compared back at t... Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
Music
Pascal Comelade - The No Dancing
One man's whimsical, pedestrian, musical ruminations Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
Music
Y’All Is Fantasy Island – No Ceremony
YiFi’s potent mixture of Celtic Americana is sprawled out on the porch, moonshine in hand Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
Clubs
Hip-Hop Highlights - November, 2008
Well it’s all about Thursday nights if you’re a hip-hop head in Scotland. New weekly night Crash starts the month off with its mash up of hip-ho... Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
Music
Metal Up Your Ass - November, 2008
Potentially the gigging highlight of the month, and perhaps of the year, comes in the form of the astonishing Israeli trio Monotonix (10 Nov) at The Captain's Rest Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
Music
The Black Keys @ Queen's Hall, 16 Nov
Bringing to a close a year that saw them release a white-hot collaboration with hip-hop hit-maker Danger Mouse, The Black Keys will bring their oil-stained g... Read more »| 29 Oct 2008
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Music
Don Caballero @ Stereo, 12 Nov
Influential Pennsylvanian math-rockers hit Glasgow Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
Theatre
Hidden Agenda - Towards a gender politics of Arches Live!
Is there such a thing as "female" art? And does the new energy at The Arches have some? Read more »| 28 Oct 2008 -
Music
Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines
On this first single from The Stand Ins, companion piece to 2007's critically acclaimed The Stage Names, Okkervil River's Will Sheff takes the role of beleag... Read more »| 28 Oct 2008 -
Music
Mogwai @ Corn Exchange, 21 Oct
Due to an electrical glitch, a subsequent lack of a proper soundcheck and a tight schedule, Errors (****) are practically playing before most punters have be... Read more »| 28 Oct 2008 -
Music
The Cardinals @ The Picture House, 14 Nov
More sober than he's been in years, expect Ryan Adams' erratic live show to be a more polished affair this time out Read more »| 28 Oct 2008 -
Music
Greg Weeks - The Hive
Espers frontman flirts with prog rock and freak folk on impressive solo album Read more »| 28 Oct 2008 -
Music
Live Music Highlights - November, 2008
Controversy-courting, super-prolific lo-fi indie superstar Jay Reatard brings the ruckus to Glasgow ABC2 on 18 Nov Read more »| 28 Oct 2008 -
Music
Jud - Sufferboy
With a less-than-subtle approach to guitar, Bright White Light starts thick and loud, the faintly distorted vocals and dense production reminiscent of Richar... Read more »| 28 Oct 2008 -
Music
Revere - The Escape Artist
With a full-length version of this single coming in at just over six minutes, Revere are theatrical to say the least. Drawing comparisons to Sigur Ros and en... Read more »| 28 Oct 2008