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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TheatreBack to the Underground
Gareth K Vile looks at another slice of damnation. Read more »| 10 Oct 2008 -
ComedyElizabeth and Raleigh: Late But Live
Acclaimed Fringe show by Stewart Lee tours to the Eden Court Theatre, Inverness Read more »| 10 Oct 2008 -
ClubsSubstance 2nd Birthday @ The Caves, 25 Oct
Substance are celebrating their second anniversary of bringing mixed breakbeats and strange frequencies to their loyal crowd by hosting a rave in The Caves. ... Read more »| 10 Oct 2008 -
MusicDe Rosa @ Rubix, The GRV, 2 Oct
On this evidence De Rosa could teach Bloc Party a thing or two about getting indie-kids to dance rather than pout Read more »| 09 Oct 2008 -
Music
Foals @ Barrowland, 5 Oct
Whilst watching Dananananaykroyd's (****) contagious brand of jitter-punk unfold onstage, a fellow concertgoer asks me what their name is. “I really li... Read more »| 09 Oct 2008 -
Music
Bodies of Water @ Captain's Rest, 3 Oct
“We’re really interested in meeting some neds,” jest married front-couple David and Meredith Metcalf. “Yeah, we’ve watched them... Read more »| 09 Oct 2008
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Clubs
Jacopo Carreras: Somnambulism and Sofas.
Jacopo Carreras’ From Bed To Couch is one of the most complex and challenging electronic albums of recent years. Liam Arnold asked him what gets him out of bed in the morning. Read more »| 09 Oct 2008 -
Art
RSA Research Exhibition
Concealed behind closed doors, down a discreet corridor to the left of the main gallery entrance, this year’s Research show at the Royal Scottish Acade... Read more »| 09 Oct 2008 -
Music
Comet Gain - Broken Record Prayers
At times terrifically potent Read more »| 09 Oct 2008 -
Music
A Muso's Top 10: Aaron North
As well as procuring the usual track list for a desert island mix-tape, this month we asked former Icarus Line and Nine Inch Nails axe man Aaron North to env... Read more »| 08 Oct 2008 -
MusicLadyhawke @ Cabaret Voltaire, 3 Oct
Fizzles like a mouthful of Space Dust and Cherry Coke Read more »| 08 Oct 2008 -
Music
The Streets @ Barrowland, 4 Oct
“I want to try something out,” Mike Skinner declares. He wants the crowd to wait for the appropriate moment, then – basically –&lsquo... Read more »| 08 Oct 2008 -
Music
Herman Dune - Next Year in Zion
David-Ivar Herman Dune claims that this is the first album he's recorded when he was happy, and the instrumentation bears him out: upbeat brass bubbles under... Read more »| 08 Oct 2008 -
Music
Shawn Lee and Clutchy Hopkins - Clutch of the Tiger
It’s all too easy to let Clutch of the Tiger wash over you as you begin to wonder what you’ll have for tea Read more »| 08 Oct 2008 -
Theatre
danceLive! 2008
Aberdeen’s Festival of Contemporary Dance arrives to keep our wintry bodies fired up Read more »| 07 Oct 2008