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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FilmShine A Light
Legendary director Martin Scorsese has picked the Rolling Stones for his next music documentary after the success of 2005’s Dylan documentary, No Direc... Read more »| 03 Nov 2008 -
BooksSolo Faces by James Salter
Verne Rand is a born climber, a man so at ease on tricky ascents that it’s as if he’s part of the mountains. He’s the fascinating (fictiona... Read more »| 03 Nov 2008 -
Music
Gabby Young and Other Animals - Bear With Me
Inarguably original and difficult to categorise, with a great set of pipes Read more »| 03 Nov 2008 -
MusicVoo - Same Mistakes/What Will Happen and When
The press release for Same Mistakes/What Will Happen And When is a series of brightly coloured statements (shock! - ed), ranging from the informative (&ldquo... Read more »| 03 Nov 2008 -
ClubsOptimo 11th Birthday @ Sub Club, Glasgow, 30 Nov
The peerless Optimo celebrates its eleventh birthday by doing what it does best, ensuring everyone is out on a school night when really they should be at hom... Read more »| 03 Nov 2008 -
ClubsDigitalism @ Snafu, Aberdeen, 23 Nov
Here, lets play a little game. I mention a production duo, you think of a colour. Actually, you know what… it’s already too late – once yo... Read more »| 03 Nov 2008
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Clubs
Guru Josh Project - Infinity 2008
“Here’s my key, philosophy, a freak like me, just needs infinity”. So begins the house anthem that is Infinity 2008, where it doesn’t... Read more »| 01 Nov 2008 -
Theatre
Scottish Opera: The Secret Marriage
Gareth K Vile, fan of performance art and radical dance, enjoys a more polite evening Read more »| 01 Nov 2008 -
Music
The Dälek of Enlightenment
Many players, labels, fads and facets have come and gone since Dälek came to play with rugged beats and dystopian rhymes ten years ago. Will Brooks tells Dave Kerr why they’ve survived. Read more »| 31 Oct 2008 -
Music
DeSalvo: Schizophonic
DeSalvo elicit as much fear as they do admiration from those privy to their catharsis Read more »| 31 Oct 2008 -
Theatre
Suddenly Last Summer
Gareth K Vile wishes for a Scottish accent in a solid double bill. Read more »| 31 Oct 2008 -
Music
Can He Still Kick It?: Five Degrees of Q-Tip
Next Monday (3 Nov, 2008), hip-hop legend Q-Tip (known in some circles as Kamaal the Abstract, but his mum shouts Jonathan Davis out the back door at tea tim... Read more »| 31 Oct 2008 -
Music
Guru's Jazzmatazz @ The Voodoo Rooms, 6 Nov
Bugsy Malone meets Louis Armstrong in a hip-hop odyssey for classy cats Read more »| 31 Oct 2008 -
Film
November Film News
Jonathan Melville takes a look at some of the films screening away from the multiplexes this month. Read more »| 31 Oct 2008 -
Music
UpCdownC - Embers
The considerable intelligence underlying the songwriting is always apparent Read more »| 31 Oct 2008