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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Basement Breaks
Yes! That's the overwhelming sentiment in the heads of the heads assembled for the rebirth of Glasgow's underground hip hop night in the Thirteenth Note. It ... Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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A Piece Of Havana - Fruitmarket
All the polish you'd expect from a big corporate event is in full effect, right down to the maraca in your Cuba Libre and the models drafted in to serve them... Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Theatre
Strangers, Babies
There are some truths that are so difficult to deal with that we actively spend time not thinking about them. Strangers, Babies by Linda McLean has one of th... Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Twenty Years On...
Leader: The first week of April marks the 20th anniversary of a Glasgow institution, The Sub Club, an impressive achievement when you consider that the venue has always put cutting-edge music at the forefront of its operations.
Pull quote: ""Its success is largely due to fact that it's never followed fashion, but above all else, it's down to the people who've come to the club over the years that have really made it what it is."" Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Justin Robertson, Death Disco, The Arches, Glasgow, 17 Mar
The excellent Justin Robertson helps a mediocre Death Disco come up trumps Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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DJ Academy, City Nightclub, Edinburgh, Saturday afternoons, Apr 2007
Ok bedroom DJs, if you've had the decks for three years now, and still haven't progressed past beat-matching, then perhaps you need to hand over tutelage to ... Read more »| 11 Apr 2007
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Fabio & Grooverider, Xtrabass 07 and Xplicit, Art School, Glasgow, 9 Mar
Glasgow is gifted another ladle full of Xplicit drum and bass Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Groove Armada - Get Down feat. Stush
Groove Armada have come over sounding all Basement Jaxx Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Shadow Orchestra - Shadow Orchestra
Boldly pushing the boundaries of laptop music, composer/producer Chris Bangs and his four-piece orchestra have created one of the most genuinely uplifting an... Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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A Piece Of Havana, Fruitmarket, Glasgow, 24 Feb
Triangulo Escuro seem to go down well with the massed revelers, but it's hard to escape the thought that they might not be able to hold their own in another setting Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Cortney Tidwell - Don't Let the Stars Keep Us Tangled Up [Ewan Pearson remix]
Pearson plays up the beats and streamlines the synths and keys into hypnotic electronica, which is generally uplifting Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Motor - Unhuman
The acid sound gets an electro-house re-birth on Unhuman, fitted around jackin' beats, vocodered lyrics, and erratic clicks. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Trashed
Amid a flurry of changes to the Edinburgh scene (the closure of Sala, opening of Destination's women's night, and the relocation to Studio 24 of Velvet and Z... Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Books
The Savage Altar by Asa Larsson
Larsson consistently uses tired clichés and one-dimensional, over-familiar characters Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Books
The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
Lest the moral of the story get you down (or alienate the lucrative American market) there's a love story to divert the attention. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007