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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Clubs
Candi Staton, The Renfrew Ferry, Glasgow, April 8
Candi Staton. Respect is due. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
FilmCockles And Muscles
The film equivalent of a trashy novel and a glass of sparkling wine. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Books
Blankets - Craig Thompson
A small story, so beautifully told. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Books
Black Hole - Charles Burns
A beautiful mix of fantasy and truth. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Books
5 is the Perfect Number - Igort
As atmospheric as the best film noir, filled with shadows, rain drenched alleyways, religious imagery and desperate men dwarfed by post-impressionist Toulouse-Lautrec style billboards. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
Young People - 'All At Once' [Too Pure]
a room with muddy guitars and Katie Eastburn's brownbottle croon Read more »| 17 Mar 2006
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MusicSoledad Brothers - 'The Hardest Walk'
Songs about a relationship break-up? Well this is the blues... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
St Jude's Infirmary - Cabaret Voltaire @ Edinburgh
It's not often you leave a gig pondering the ancestral connection between Robbie and John Coltrane. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
Sick Of It All and The Unseen - King Tut's @ Glasgow
live, they haven't tarnished in the slightest after two decades Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
Haftor Medboe Group - The Lot @ Edinburgh
A perfect balance between sound exploration and rocking out. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Music
FAST feat. Park Attack / Ride This Train @ The Bongo Club
where else can you dance to Mudhoney? Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
MusicSecret Machines - 'Ten Silver Drops'
a superb collection Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
MusicMitchy Slick - 'Mitchy Duz It'
probably works better in South Central than southern Scotland Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Comedy
Adam Bloom
Wants to make Islam compulsory. That's controversial. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Comedy
A Comedian's Rant
This month Janey Godley lets us know why Jake Gyllenhall thinks she's hot. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006