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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Theatre
Endgame
Director Robert Rae's staging ultimately fails to deliver Beckett's absurdist punchlines, preferring instead to wallow in the shallows of the text's unrelenting misery. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Theatre
A Soldier's Tale
Inspired direction, refreshingly innovative lighting design, excellent spatial development and a happily disconcerting Surrealist film compliment Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Music
Malcolm Middleton takes on X-Factor
PQ: ""It's as good a time as any to think about mortality"" Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Clubs
Akiko Kiyama - Get What You Deserve
Get What You Deserve shows awareness of, if never fully exploring, some brave new territories. One to watch Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
ClubsKevin Gorman - Chemistry Lock
Sounds like Model 500 and Detroit Grand Pubahs sweatily conceiving bastards on a Wurlitzer Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Clubs
The Lo Fidelity All-Stars, King Tuts, Glasgow, 2 Dec
It's a crime that their funky techno-based gruff electro style has been so overlooked Read more »| 07 Dec 2007
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Clubs
Switch, How's Your Party, The Sub Club, Glasgow, 13 Dec
This is one half of the oh-so-very-few Brit acts that can compete with the bombast of the European and Parisian-spearheaded house sound Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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Skream, Electric Eliminators, The Art School, Glasgow, 14 Dec
For those unaccustomed to the pleasures of skanking to heavyweight bass, this will no doubt be a perfect introduction Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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Semifinalists Live at Sick Note, Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, 6 Dec
Fronted by the ex-Test Icicle Ferry Guow, the old school disco/experimental rock group are promising a sneak preview of some of the tracks due to appear on their follow-up album Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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Departure Lounge Hogmanay, The Caves, Edinburgh, 31 Dec
Jah sing me de mighty Auld Lang Syne Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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Black Devil (Disco Club), Black Rabbit Whorehouse, [SECRET VENUE], Glasgow, 7 Dec
The latest in the seemingly sporadic, venue-non-specific and word-of-mouth promoted sister nights of Optimo (Espacio) Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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Modeselektor, Numbers, The Art School, Glasgow, 2 Nov
A tooth-grinding, air-punching set of their most dancefloor orientated tracks Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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Le Chic and Keven Gorman, Kontrol, Studio 24, Edinburgh, 9 Nov
Kontrol's launch night is downright brilliant Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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Benga, Fortified Sessions, The Art School, Glasgow, 9 Nov
If it weren't for the Electric Eliminators bringing acts like this up here, we would have moved to London by now Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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3 Channels, Off The Record's 5th Birthday, Soundhaus, Glasgow, 1 Dec
Off The Record are doing more than their fair share in providing Scotland with fresh, electric-ridden beats Read more »| 07 Dec 2007