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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Clubs
Construct at Studio 24, Edinburgh Event Review
The music and atmosphere was explosive and a storming night was had by all Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Clubs
Alex Smoke - Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi Vol. 3
It's another Smoke success. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Clubs
Carl Craig, Slam, Luciano, Damian Lazarus, Craig Richards, Repeat Repeat (live), Transparent Sound (live), Slam's 8th Birthday, Pressure, The Arches, Glasgow, Nov 24
When they aren't gracing Radio 1's Essential Mix you can usually find them pounding the decks at Pressure, possibly even more so this month to iterate all eight birthday dumps. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Clubs
People Under The Stairs @ Cabaret Voltaire, October 11
With such an accessible aesthetic, it's too frustrating to think that this crew may never transcend cult Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Mogwai - Black Spider/Half Time
As if part of a long collapse Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
The Easy Gramophone ft Chris Garneau
5 songs you can legally download and listen to - free Read more »| 12 Nov 2006
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Music
A Muso's Top 10: Muggs (Cypress Hill)
Just because I ain't all over MTV all fuckin' day homie, don't mean I'm not doin' this shit. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
The Long Blondes @ Oran Mor, 10 Oct
Visceral and charming, better suited to dancing than intellectual analysis. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
The Automatic @ ABC
Energetic? Certainly. Fun? Most definitely. Worth seeing twice? Not really Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Peaches @ ABC, 11 Oct
The most concise excuse for random sex, ever Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Film
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
Uninspired, dull and completely lacking in tension. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
The Stone Ghost Collective - A Theory of Everything
Gorgeous music paired with a bit of space-knowledge, a bit of metaphysics, a bit of mysticism. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Isobel Campbell - Milkwhite Sheets
It's telling that two of 'Milkwhite Sheets' best tracks, James and the foreboding Over The Wheat & Barley, are instrumentals. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Public Enemy @ The Liquid Room, 2 Oct
...it's impossible to imagine a world without PE Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
The Fratellis - Gone Today or Still Here Tomorrow?
"If you haven't got a second record in you, well you're fucked; you're a fucking disgrace and should have never got a record deal in the first place." Read more »| 12 Nov 2006