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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MusicNo Age / Male Bonding @ Stereo, 9 Oct
For Glasgow fans of Sub Pop Records, tonight was a brutally hard choice. With Mudhoney also playing down the road at The Arches, a crucial decision needed to... Read more »| 13 Oct 2010 -
ClubsGrandmaster Flash @ Mixed Bizness, 20 Oct
Mixed Bizness throw down one of the strongest school night bookings in recent memory Read more »| 13 Oct 2010 -
Music
Tut Vu Vu: Stardust From Tomorrow
The Phantom Band's Andy Wake eulogises the late, great horror R&B show that was Uncle John & Whitelock to explain the origins of Tut Vu Vu Read more »| 12 Oct 2010 -
Music
The Orchids – The Lost Star
Veterans of the Glasgow scene, The Orchids cut their teeth twenty years ago with cult Bristol based Sarah Records, lending the kind of jangly indie credentia... Read more »| 12 Oct 2010 -
MusicYeasayer's Chris Keating presents The Crooked Beat
Chris Keating picks out a few choice slabs of wax that helped shape Yeasayer as they are today Read more »| 12 Oct 2010 -
MusicGrass Widow / Trash Kit @ 13th Note, 7 Oct
Since the last time Trash Kit came to Scotland, they've gained a good amount of positive press recognition, released their debut album on the esteemed label ... Read more »| 12 Oct 2010
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Music
Mudhoney @ The Arches, 9 Oct
I’m not saying girls don’t like Mudhoney (***) – that would be a ridiculous and sexist generalisation. But judging by tonight, it’s f... Read more »| 12 Oct 2010 -
Art
Christen Købke @ National Gallery of Scotland Complex
Sitting modestly beside the vast Impressionist Gardens exhibition at the National Gallery complex, one might wonder if the Christen Købke exhibition h... Read more »| 12 Oct 2010 -
MusicEastern Promise @ Platform, 1 Oct
Wounded Knee and his age of austerity orchestra as he calls it, or rather nifty vocal loop pedal as I do, is a hypnotising act. Making no effort to reassure ... Read more »| 12 Oct 2010 -
Clubs
Annie Mac presents Felix Da Housecat, Caspa & MC Rod Azlan @ Xplicit
Edinburgh’s famed d'n'b behemoth Xplicit rattles the cages of the city’s Ocean Terminal again in October, this time bringing the celebrated and m... Read more »| 12 Oct 2010 -
Art
Giles Round: The Form of the Book @ SWG3
You move down the line of Vs and say ‘VVVVVVVVVVVV…’ to yourself, trying to form it into a word. Nothing comes of it. Wondering if the ita... Read more »| 11 Oct 2010 -
Film
No Impact Man
No Impact Man documents the year in which writer Colin Beavan and his family attempted to reduce their carbon emissions to zero. They begin by recycling, giv... Read more »| 09 Oct 2010 -
Theatre
Dedomegamix @ Phoenix
Two hours after the performance, my mother and Dedominici are deep in conversation, sharing their disappointment at Watford's mayor's inability to support th... Read more »| 08 Oct 2010 -
Clubs
Carte Blanche @ HYP?, 29 Oct
HYP? turns three in style Read more »| 08 Oct 2010 -
Theatre
Panic Patterns
Press the Panic Button Read more »| 08 Oct 2010