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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MusicManic Street Preachers @ Barrowlands
Ever the peerless breed, and being served harsh condemnation by their detractors for as long as they've existed, the Manics finally look to be riding somethi... Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Film
Fantastic Four: Reserving Judgement - Surf's Up
Let's be careful not to write movies and actors off before we see them. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Books
The End Of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas
A hugely playful novel, tripping over itself with name-dropping and then theory-dropping. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Books
Eating Jesus
Eating Jesus manages to avoid the numerous cliches it could have stumbled into Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Film
Ten Canoes
The oral tradition is captured well by this ""story within a story within a story"". Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Music
The Dials @ Ego
Still learning new and more devious ways to sound both several years ahead of their birth certificates as well as more and more muscular by the day Read more »| 10 Jun 2007
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Music
Soul Circus @ ABC2
good time, blue-collar rock, with lyrics celebrating the joy of life and lust. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Music
Pipettes @ The Garage
Exciting, enthusiastic and effortlessly sexy, everything a girl group should be. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Music
Conflict Diamonds / Arse2Mouth @ Henry's Cellar Bar
Machine gun-spitting guitar fury, potentially crowd-injuring drumming and natty waistcoats. Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Music
Field Music / Future Pilot AKA feat Found @ Bongo Club
First up, Glasgow's maverick artist Future Pilot AKA presents somewhat of a problem. On record his sometimes brilliant compositions have been graced with par... Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Comedy
STARS - June 2007
GeminiHas your faith deserted you? Was it chocolate pudding? Oooh that'll stain! She's a bitch! Lucky jibe: "Fud pus!"CancerMars is re-stimulating itself int... Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Art
The Scottish Show 2007
the show juxtaposes high quality art with prospects of prototyping for commercialism Read more »| 10 Jun 2007 -
Books
AL Kennedy on Day (ONLINE VERSION!!!!!)
AL Kennedy has a secret: ""I am trying, desperately trying to get to write Doctor Who"" Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
Film
Goya's Ghosts
The film's dazzling array of accents is its chief debt to Pythonesque absurdity. Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
Clubs
Noise of Art, The Caves, Edinburgh, 17 May
Noise of Art returns this month; the travelling festival of electronic music, visuals, and strong links with the Berlin scene, is going underground in Edinburgh Read more »| 11 May 2007