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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Clubs
Dave Tarrida vs Youngsta, Kinky Afro 7th Birthday, Sub Club, Glasgow, Oct 27
The passing years have seen it undergo various changes, but one constant has remained: the residents' and promoters' (Matthew Bennett and Dougal Perlman) willingness to embrace new developments in dance music. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Ross Copperman - As I Choke
an admirable skill for mimicry Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Zero 7 @ Usher Hall
a suitable match to the grandeur of the band's sophistication. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
The Divine Comedy @ The Liquid Room
...he's pissed Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Final Fantasy @ ABC2
when you leave people gasping, that's little to complain about Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
MusicSenses Fail - Still Searching
You need this album like you need a six-inch rectal prolapse.
Read more »| 12 Nov 2006
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Clubs
AmenCHOP, Potency, The Q Club, Glasgow, Nov 24
Potency is one of Glasgow's newest additions to the clubbing calendar Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Clubs
Savas Pascadilis vs Rolando, Access vs Inner Rhythm, Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Nov 17
Look to Pascadilis to 'Savas'! Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Film
E11 (Hot Aches)
MacLeod fell several times, often as far as seventy feet before being caught by the rope, often at the cost of severe personal injury Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
The Hazey Janes @ Cabaret Voltaire
A thoroughly enjoyable live act, even if drying paint becomes an attractive alternative Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Books
Prologue
I may have overpriced my integrity by suggesting that an island in the Bahamas would buy my gushing praise Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Books
KatzenJammer - Creative Writing
The slickness of the drink had fuddled the part of my brain known as the 'mum-spot', the part which always knew best. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Books
Scots Who Made America, by Rick Wilson
The first man on the moon was the son of a Scotsman and Uncle Sam himself came from Greenock Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Books
The Gift - Lewis Hyde
his examples serve as a fascinating survey of human myth-making Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Books
House of Meetings by Martin Amis
an astonishing command of grammar and a vocabulary that the average dictionary would envy Read more »| 12 Nov 2006