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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A-Trak vs DJ Mehdi, Sugarbeat/Clash!, Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, 26 Oct
A must for all hip-hip aficionados Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Nick AKA (Clash!) DJ Chart
Nick AKA plays and runs the Clash! Soundsystem every Saturday at Red Nightclub in Edinburgh, plus appearing at monthly parties at Glasgow's Nice'n'Sleazy and Edinburgh's Cabaret Voltaire. His mixes feature crunky acid, b'more, indie-electro, and ""anything else anti-minimal, stupid and fun."" Clash! will return on 18 Oct with Spektrum live at Cabaret Voltaire (11pm-3am, £tbc). Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Glasgow feature: The Art of Parties
SF: The Skinny's Sean McNamara talks expansion and change with Art of Parties.
PQ: Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Justice (live), The Arches, Glasgow, 8 Sept
Packed tightly body to body into the entire length of the rammed main arch, a heaving sway sends people stumbling in one direction and then the other as the crowd pogo rather than dance Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Tom Findlay and Black Grass, Buff Club, Glasgow, 28 Sept
Check out Tom Findlay for free! Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Stephen Fretwell @ Classic Grand
A voice that can be 20-a-day gritty or triple-distilled angelic depending on the song Read more »| 08 Oct 2007
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Music
Make Model, Fat Sams, Dundee, 29 Oct
It would be easy to picture a Make Model gig resurrecting memories in even the most grumblesome indie purist of how unashamedly, unpretentiously fun music can be Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Drowning Pool - Full Circle
Edgy, aggressive, passionate and fiery Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
Musical genius Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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The Teenagers @ Cabaret Voltaire
This derivative rag-tag collective will have to improve dramatically to avoid a quick and humiliating demotion Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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The Sounds @ Liquid Room
Not bothered about utilising the odd cliché or twelve Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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The Shins @ Corn Exchange
A distinctly lackluster occasion Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Razorlight @ Meadowbank Stadium
Maybe Tom should take a leaf out of Johnny Borrell's book Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Music
Mice Parade @ King Tut's
Winsome melodies building to well-orchestrated climaxes and ecstatic flamenco-influenced wailing Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Hard-Fi @ Abc
The energy and the atmosphere provided by Hard-Fi's live set means that, for once, a Mercury nomination does not denote a black hole into oblivion Read more »| 08 Oct 2007