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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ClubsOptimo @ Origin, Aberdeen, 18 Oct
This deserves a good mention on a couple of counts. First up, the Optimo duo of JD Twitch and JG Wilkes bring a party soundtrack to the club experience that ... Read more »| 02 Oct 2008 -
MusicMogwai @ The Corn Exchange, 21 Oct
There's probably someone out there that hasn't heard about Mogwai. Some bearded, shuffling hermit, dragging behind him a shopping bag full of old newspapers.... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
FilmBurn to Shine
The mandate for Burn to Shine is simple: find a house that is due to be demolished; recruit a number of local bands to play there; film the demolition of the... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
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I Hear a New World - Fence Records Special (Part Two)
An entirely rational flurry of Fence love picks up from where it left off last issue Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
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Metal Up Your Ass - October, 2008
For those of us not fooled by rampant tapping, This is Our Battlefield collective delivers a gig of some substance as Gainesville's Young Livers hit the 13th Note on the 10th Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
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Neon Neon: Acceptable in the Noughties
Neon Neon may not have won the Mercury Music Prize, but arriving for the event in a pair of time-travelling cars (if Emmett ‘Doc’ Brown had his way) with lego-brick medallions hanging from their necks, the eccentric duo could not be missed. The album is equally colourful, but Nick Mitchell hears that it took real creative discipline to make it. Read more »| 01 Oct 2008
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Live Music Highlights - October, 2008
Superhotrightnow threepiece Johnny Foreigner deal in adrenalin-soaked scuzz pop and their gig at Edinburgh’s Cabaret Voltaire is one of this month’s hottest tickets Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
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Tune Up 2008/09 @ Various Venues Across Scotland, Oct-Jan
With the four major cities in Scotland blessed with vibrant music scenes, it's easy to assume that the quadrant that exists between The Lemontree, The Barrow... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
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The Dirty Dozen - October, 2008
Another month, another motley mélange of lad-rock veterans, zingy pop tarts, moody rappers and local upstarts. Nick Mitchell wades in... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
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Tindersticks @ City Hall, Glasgow, 5 Oct
11 years is an eon in musical terms: between the years 1997 and 2008 we have borne witness to the demise of Britpop, the stillbirth that was nu-metal, and th... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
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The Spinto Band @ Oran Mor, 29 Sep
When the six zany members of The Spinto Band hop, skip and jump on stage to play their equally mental brand of kazoo-fusion indie-pop, pulling funny faces an... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
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Ben Folds - Way to Normal
Ben Folds is a musician best described as ‘having his moments’. After three full-lengths with Ben Folds Five - each with hits outweighing misses ... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
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A Post-Graduate Survival Guide Part II: Sorcha Dallas interview
As Sorcha Dallas prepares to take her wares to the Frieze Art Fair, Rosamund West caught up with her to talk artists’ representation, commercial galleries and the Glasgow School. Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
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Kill Your Timid Notion @ DCA
Arika, the team behind Glasgow’s Instal festival, return to Dundee with another helping of Kill Your Timid Notion. For those who have missed the previo... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
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Neville Rae at Sierra Metro
2008 is starting to feel like a year of new beginnings in Edinburgh’s art world. First The Embassy were cruelly evicted from their gallery (to make way... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008