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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MusicDeerhunter - Microcastle
With their third full-length LP this Atlantan art-punk quintet can still conjure up an image of Christopher Walken in a headband - carelessly waving a revolv... Read more »| 13 Oct 2008 -
MusicBand... I mean Banned
Thank god (or whatever) for freedom of expression! Pity the repressed denizens of countries under the influence of communism or dictatorships! Thankfully our... Read more »| 13 Oct 2008 -
ClubsRecloose @ Snafu & MacSorleys Music Bar, 29 Oct & 30 Oct
New Zealand producer, Matt ‘Recloose’ Chicoine makes appearances in both Aberdeen and Glasgow on consecutive nights this month. Promoting the re... Read more »| 13 Oct 2008 -
Music
Errors- Pump
Second single from Glasgow electro-indie outfit's debut record. Read more »| 13 Oct 2008 -
Music
Bear Hands - Golden EP
For those to whom the phrase ‘debut EP’ conjures up the notion of a tinny or fuzzy handful of half-baked songs, you’re sure to be disappoin... Read more »| 13 Oct 2008 -
TheatreSix Acts of Lovliness
Andy Arnold continues to move and care at the Tron. Read more »| 12 Oct 2008
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Music
White Lies @ King Tut's, 3 Oct
They may say that the clothes maketh the man. but ‘they’ aren’t clear on whether women, or indeed bands, are similarly made by their clobbe... Read more »| 10 Oct 2008 -
Film
Things That Make You Go Boom!
When selecting your slice of Tennessee Williams cinematic majesty this Glasgay!, do Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, indulge in The Glass Menagerie, and drink in Stree... Read more »| 10 Oct 2008 -
Music
The Long Blondes - Singles
After second album Couples failed to set the world alight, a reminder of the glory days when they were feted as the greatest unsigned band in the country is ... Read more »| 10 Oct 2008 -
Art
Lila de Magalhaes @ Collective Gallery
Lila de Magalhaes' offering to Collective's New Work Scotland Programme makes for a strong, moving and deeply humorous start to the now greatly anticipated ... Read more »| 10 Oct 2008 -
Music
Behind the Light II @ The Ark, 31 Oct
From the bowels of Hell they came Read more »| 10 Oct 2008 -
Clubs
Moon Unit @ Optimo, Sub Club, 5 Oct
The always interesting Optimo tonight present Moon Unit, the musical offspring of Paul Mogg and former Terranova member Xaver Naudascher. Mogg and Naudascher... Read more »| 10 Oct 2008 -
Clubs
Halloween Clubbing 2008
You reach an age where knocking on old ladies’ doors and shouting “TRICK OR TREAT!?” stops being cute and starts to run the risk of landing... Read more »| 10 Oct 2008 -
Music
How To Swim - Genesis P and Me/From Here to Dundee Slash Eternity
For anyone whose knowledge of avant-garde industrial pioneers is rusty, Genesis P-Orridge was the artist/singer from Throbbing Gristle who, with his late wif... Read more »| 10 Oct 2008 -
Theatre
Back to the Underground
Gareth K Vile looks at another slice of damnation. Read more »| 10 Oct 2008