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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Film
Babel
A comprehensive statement on an adult world gone astray from its core principle. Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Music
The DeLoreans - Shank EP
The pop appeal of the Deloreans excuses the fact they've not yet found their musical footing Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
MusicThe Little Ones - Lovers Who Uncover
There's harmony aplenty and enough jangly guitar to last a lifetime Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Books
The Black Dossier.
Back in 1984, the cartoonist, writer and satirist Willie Rushton wrote an illustrated novel, W.G. Grace's Last Case. In it the renowned Victorian cricketer j... Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Music
Dancing Mice/The Vivians @ Bannermans Underworld
Girls are Dancing!! Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
MusicBiffy Clyro - Semi-Mental
Having sought out the midas touch of Rage Against the Machine producer GGGarth Richardson in Vancouver, Glasgow's favourite and possibly most prolific hard r... Read more »| 11 Jan 2007
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Music
A Muso's Top 10: Comets On Fire
a melting pot of the long-players presently keeping their solar system ablaze during these winter months... Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Clubs
DJ Chart - Bradley C (Chew The Fat!)
Bradley C is the main man behind Glasgow's highly sucessful Chew The Fat! parties at the Sub Club. Exclusively for the Skinny, he presents a top ten that draws from Brighton's Fat! Records (the club's mothership) and the best of the breakbeat scene. Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
MusicTenacious D @ SECC, 11 Dec
With an able backing band rounded out by Charlie Chaplin, Colonel Sanders and the Anti-Christ, laughs and bullhorns are rife Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Clubs
Penpushers, Eaters, Sileni, Bannerman's, Edinburgh, Dec 3
Penpushers should be huge. You should own all of their albums. Why don't you own all of their albums? Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
MusicDe Rosa - Hopes and Little Jokes
You can make music and be Scottish without being in a folk band Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Music
Richard Ashcroft @ SECC, 29 Nov
This challenge is Ashcroft's triumph: to play great songs greatly. Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Clubs
Solescience Annual Bang Off, Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, 12 Jan
Keep the Festive spirit going well after the last Xmas tree is turned into firewood! Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Clubs
The Drum and Bass Curriculum - January 2007
The mighty Manga and its 11th birthday at The Liquid Room Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Clubs
Solescience 'Best of 2006' DJ Chart
1. Rekid - Next Stop Chicago (Rekid) Without a doubt the biggest record for the Solescience dancefloor in 2006. 2. Prztz - Small Talk (Classic) A George Cli... Read more »| 11 Jan 2007