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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BooksAllergic To Poetry?
Ryan Van Winkle – Reader-in-Residence at the Scottish Poetry Library and Edinburgh City Libraries flags up unique ways to get poetry into your life. Read more »| 06 Nov 2008 -
MusicSlayer @ Carling Academy, Glasgow, 3 Nov
Thrash metal overlords carpet bomb Glasgow with bone-crushing riffs Read more »| 06 Nov 2008 -
Books
Look Both Ways, by Jennifer Baumgardner
"Part memoir, part pop-culture study, part feminist theory," enthuses the blurb on the back of the book. Maybe that’s the problem: Look Both Ways tries... Read more »| 06 Nov 2008 -
Film
Quantum of Solace
Gavin Sturgeon gives his verdict on the latest edition to the Bond franchise. Read more »| 05 Nov 2008 -
Music
Glasvegas @ Ayr Town Hall, 31 Oct
Behind the perpetual sunglasses is a man resigned to the fact that his songs are no longer his own. Read more »| 05 Nov 2008 -
Music
Misty's Big Adventure - The World Outside
Oddball Birmingham octet Misty's Big Adventure introduce the concept of their fourth LP Television’s People on The World Outside, an eerie tour around ... Read more »| 05 Nov 2008
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Music
Teenage Fanclub @ Ironworks, Inverness, 2 Nov
Fan-picked bill proves too hard to top for legendary scottish rockers Read more »| 05 Nov 2008 -
Music
A Place To Bury Strangers @ Nice 'n' Sleazy, 30 Nov
If you find yourself longing for the cacophony of garage band reverb and distortion mixed with psychedelic pop, you’re in luck. A Place To Bury Strang... Read more »| 05 Nov 2008 -
MusicMalcolm Middleton @ The Tolbooth, Stirling, 28 Oct
In as jovial spirits as he presumably ever reaches, Mr Middleton casually appears onstage, seemingly comfortable in front of tonight’s reasonably local... Read more »| 05 Nov 2008 -
Music
James Orr Complex – Com Favo
We may not compete with Brazil on the football pitch, but the Scottish-Brazilian musical alliance is one built on rather more equal terms, and as the TrocaBr... Read more »| 05 Nov 2008 -
Theatre
All Quiet and Slightly Disappointing on the Western Front
Michael Cox is less than enrpatured by the stage's vision of war as hell. Read more »| 04 Nov 2008 -
Music
From Establishment to Establishment: The Changing Face of Punk
Nobody really knew what punk was in the late 70s. Thirty years later, it's still up in the air. Jorge Marticorena speaks to former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, original Buzzcocks frontman Howard Devoto, Times New Viking members Adam Elliott and Beth Murphy, and guitarist Randy Randall from No Age to try to sift through all their musings. Read more »| 04 Nov 2008 -
Theatre
RSC Romeo and Juliet
Melissa Trachtenberg sees the masters take on the Bard Read more »| 04 Nov 2008 -
Music
Conflict Diamonds @ The Ark, 1 Nov
Invokes images of The Knack being chased down dimly lit backstreets, an imminent ‘chibbing’ lying ahead. Read more »| 04 Nov 2008 -
Music
HMS Ginafore & King Creosote - Love + Hate = Hate
Don't expect any I Got You Babe moments Read more »| 04 Nov 2008