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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MusicWarp 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 -
MusicATP 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 -
MusicJuliette 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 -
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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 -
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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
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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 -
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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 -
Books
Please Praise Gray's Plays...
The Skinny is helping to launch an Alasdair Gray Book - want to come? Read more »| 28 Oct 2009 -
Music
Warp Week: Hudson Mohawke melts genres like Butter!
Our November cover star Hudson Mohawke doesn’t sound like anything else that’s come before – or at least, not for long. The rising star of genre-defying, thrill-a-minute underground uber-pop tells us why he can’t sit still. Read more »| 28 Oct 2009 -
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Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land
Frightened Rabbit's success is based on nothing resembling modernity: ever since the first lovesick caveman grunted a tune, his descendants have been... Read more »| 28 Oct 2009 -
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The Raincoats: Unacceptable in the 80s
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Raincoats' seminal debut with its first commercial issue in 10 years this month, founding member Gina Birch recalls a world of possibilities during the formative years of the cult all-female post-punk outfit. Read more »| 28 Oct 2009 -
Clubs
Halloween Clubbing 2009
A look at what you can expect in clubs across the country this Halloween weekend. Apart from people dressed as the various stages of Michael Jackson's life. Read more »| 28 Oct 2009 -
Theatre
Master Gaga
He comes from New York, via the RSAMD and displays a Glaswegian caustic humour. Will the real Drew Taylor please stand up? Read more »| 28 Oct 2009