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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ClubsHouse of Techno, October 08
As British as it is to discuss the weather before launching into more serious topics, it’s bloody well going to be winter soon, and rather than accepti... Read more »| 29 Sep 2008 -
MusicOlafur Arnalds @ The Tunnels, 22 Oct
Christmas did come early the first time I heard Arnalds last autumn. His haunting melodies have the ability to bring out childhood memories while easing mode... Read more »| 29 Sep 2008 -
TheatreTop Five Theatre Events in October
The Emotional Life of Furniture Little Theatre, Dundee (8 Oct) and The Tron (10-12 Oct) Part of the mental health arts festival, this one sees a performance ... Read more »| 29 Sep 2008 -
Books
Ansel Adams: Landscapes of the American West
Ansel Adams was a legendary photographer. He mainly shot landscapes, specifically large-scale American landscapes, and his photographs are often breathtaking... Read more »| 29 Sep 2008 -
FilmDays of Darkness
This is by and for the gore-hungry and genre-savvy demographic so dedicated to these straight to video zombie movies, but is unlikely to satisfy the more sea... Read more »| 29 Sep 2008 -
Music
Run for Cover, He's Gonna Bomb The Bass
Tim Simenon explains to The Skinny that perfection just can't be hurried Read more »| 28 Sep 2008
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Theatre
Married to the Sea @ Assembly Rooms
Erin McElhinney captures an elegiac Fringe show Read more »| 28 Sep 2008 -
Music
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Metallica evolved from beer-soaked garage jams to becoming one of the biggest brand names of rock and have struck an undeniable power chord in several genera... Read more »| 26 Sep 2008 -
Music
A Silent Film - The City That Sleeps
11 doses of well-spoken, middle-class melodrama Read more »| 26 Sep 2008 -
Music
Scars On Broadway @ ABC, 20 Sep
New project from SOAD men packs an aural punch Read more »| 26 Sep 2008 -
Clubs
Dettman goes Off The Record
Staple of Glasgow’s Soundhaus and just shy of their 5th Birthday, house and techno night Off The Record welcome Marcel Dettman this month Read more »| 26 Sep 2008 -
BooksMattilda Bernstein Sycamore: So Many Ways to Sleep Badly
Hot on the heels of an expanded second edition of That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is back on the scene with a new novel. Alma Cork joins the dots. Read more »| 26 Sep 2008 -
Music
Max Tundra - Will Get Fooled Again
The carnage of old Amiga 500s ripped apart to be here is sizeable Read more »| 26 Sep 2008 -
Music
Drever, McCusker and Woomble: Folk to the power of three
Kris Drever, John McCusker and Roddy Woomble talk to Paul Mitchell about chance meetings, moody rock kids and how to make folk go pop Read more »| 26 Sep 2008 -
Music
Lykke Li @ Cabaret Voltaire, 9 Oct
An appearance by Lykke Li at Cabaret Voltaire brings with it the promise of sunny pop, even as summer becomes an obscure memory in Auld Reekie. Well-inform... Read more »| 26 Sep 2008