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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ClubsA Festive Clubbing Guide
The end of the year is the time where every club night worth their salt throws the biggest party imaginable, all to celebrate Santa’s birthday or something like that. Read more »| 02 Dec 2008 -
Music
Gogol Bordello @ Carling Academy, 19 Dec
Just in time for Christmas, Gogol Bordello, your favorite Eastern Europeans based in New York, are descending on Glasgow. With a sound like a cross between a... Read more »| 02 Dec 2008 -
MusicRob St John - Like Alchemy EP
Recorded live one evening in Edinburgh's Stockbridge Church and accompanied by members of the city's underground folk scene, this short EP is a fragile and h... Read more »| 02 Dec 2008 -
Music
A Year in Records #10: Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
After overcoming growing pains with the uncomfortable (but excellent) Plans, Death Cab For Cutie settle into their status as major label chart toppers with Narrow Stairs Read more »| 02 Dec 2008 -
MusicSELFISH CUNT - ENGLAND MADE ME II
From the band behind such charming ditties as Britain Is Shit comes England Made Me II. It's as angry as one might expect from a band with such a contentious... Read more »| 02 Dec 2008 -
Music
The Dirty Dozen - December, 2008
December isn't all about Cliff Richard and the X Factor. There's some damn fine music out there too, Nick Mitchell finds Read more »| 01 Dec 2008
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Music
I Hear a New World - December, 2008
Wichita Recordings Special Read more »| 01 Dec 2008 -
Art
Langlands + Bell @ Talbot Rice Gallery
Having spent the preceding week building up our critical stamina by bench-pressing the hardback big-print version of Gombrich's History of Art, The Skinny gl... Read more »| 01 Dec 2008 -
MusicMalcolm in the Middle
Having called it a day with his former band Arab Strap, Malcolm Middleton is on the verge of doing the same with his solo career. Darren Carle finds out why, as well as getting some sage advice on having a not so ‘merry’ Christmas. Read more »| 01 Dec 2008 -
Music
Ten Tracks Featured Artist: Rob St John
On the eve of the release of his new EP, this month's featured Ten Tracks artist Rob St John lets Billy Hamilton know his name’s not exclusive to one but to an entire group of like-minded souls Read more »| 01 Dec 2008 -
Theatre
The Snow Queen @ the Arches
Mhairi Graham explores the dark, dark world of children's entertainment. Read more »| 01 Dec 2008 -
MusicJoan As Police Woman - To America
On the third single from her acclaimed second album To Survive, released this summer, Joan Wasser (better known as Joan As Police Woman) duets with contempor... Read more »| 01 Dec 2008 -
Clubs
Cassette Jam: Full-Throttle into 2009
Cassette Jam held down one of the biggest bookings in the world this summer, at Amnesia in 'Biza. This month they come to Glasgow to rock the Warehouse Project at Hogmanay Read more »| 01 Dec 2008 -
Film
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Shot in a mixture of crisp colour, grainy sepia and monochrome over ten years, director Steven Sebring does not attempt to inform viewers of a timeline in Pa... Read more »| 01 Dec 2008 -
Art
A Post-Graduate Survival Guide Part III: Aberdeen
In the third part of our series offering advice to newly hatched creatives looking for support in The Real World, Fraser Denholm discusses a fast-ascending venture especially for those in the granite city. Read more »| 01 Dec 2008