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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MusicTapes 'n Tapes - Walk It Off
Like an aural equivalent to a Hitchcock thriller Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
MusicThe Breeders - Mountain Battles
Repeated listens and a little patience reap rewards Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
MusicPortishead - Third
Third is the most frightening record you'll hear all year, infused with dread and danger at every other turn Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Comedy
Reginald D Hunter- 7 March, The Glasgow Stand
This man is so edgy he's four-dimensional. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Music
Night Noise Team - Ronde de Nuit
An effortless pop nous that may induce apoplexy with the puritanical, dour indie crowd Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
Volume, Ego, Edinburgh, 19 Apr
If you're a sensible human being you'll get your ass down to Ego for Volume's first birthday to be spoiled rotten. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008
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Clubs
The Being, Ivory Blacks, Glasgow, 4 Apr
Going on the evidence of previous gigs, each set is guaranteed to contain at least one line worth the entrance fee in itself. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Music
Amplifico - See Heart, See Muscle
A well-refined beast, with a bit of everything Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Music
Blood Red Shoes - Box Of Secrets
Overall a fine, if rather derivative, debut Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
Silicon Scally (live), Miso, The Ivy, Glasgow, 12 Apr
Carl Finlow makes his Miso debut this month under his Silicon Scally guise. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
Robert Hood, Kontrol v Jackhammer, Studio 24, Edinburgh, 4 Apr
Edinburgh's Kontrol and Jackhammer join forces to welcome Detroit techno lynchpin Robert Hood this month. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
MusicLadyhawk - Shots
An independently-minded masterpiece Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
Quarion (live), Trouble, Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, 4 Apr
This month Trouble gives producer Yanneck Salvo his Quarion UK debut. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
Jason Hodges, Telefunken, Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, 11 Apr
Hodges certainly knows how to work a crowd. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
Bass Fiction (aka Kode9 and Spaceape live), Electric Eliminators, The Art School, Glasgow, 18 April
It appears they know no bounds. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008