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
Captain Shitbeard DJ Chart
Captain Shitbeard, resident and founder of Oscillate, gives us his current top ten tracks. Check out Cloaks and Rustie on 21 Sept at The Ivy - turn to the Glasgow page for a preview! Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Music
Alias: All Things Remixable
Anticon reaches an independent label landmark with its 10th anniversary this year. Brendon Whitney (Alias) and David Madson look back on their past glories and tell Dave Kerr and Ali Maloney how they've kept the wheels moving. Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Clubs
Jehst - Mengi Bus Mix Tape
Jehst occasionally spits some very sharp dialogue, but it's just not good enough to redeem this album Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Comedy
Profile of a serial kidder - Maeve Higgins
She doesn't so much have gems of jokes in her stand-up, as a string of comedy pearls. Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Music
Qui - Love's Miracle
The ugly, no holds barred soundtrack to the drunken Friday night street-brawl Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Music
Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs
Drum's not dead Read more »| 08 Sep 2007
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Music
Live Music Roundup for September
Catch The Twilight Sad in a club while you still can Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Music
Shack - Time Machine: The Best of...
More ups and downs in their twenty year history than your average rollercoaster ride Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Music
Alabama 3 @ ABC, 22 Sep
Anything remotely summery flooding into Glasgow is to be welcomed with open arms Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Music
Kunt and the Gang @ 13th Note
A tsunami of filth as obscene as his name implies, obsessed with genitalia, sexual perversion, excrement and Carol Vorderman Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Clubs
Vibrations, The Classic Grand, Glasgow, Fridays
With all drinks at £1.50 and the obligatory student door discounts this could well end up being one of Glasgow's messiest nights out Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Music
King Creosote @ Old Fruitmarket, 28 Jul
Surprisingly more low-key than upbeat Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Theatre
Peer pressure
Outgoing Dundee Rep Artistic Director Dominic Hill has chosen Ibsen's Peer Gynt as his finale. Hugo Fluendy talks to him about exits, excitement and expectations Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Music
Action Group
Lily Allen... posh bird, music's pish, her father's obviously like 'there you go, have a record deal for Christmas'. It's a loada shite! - Pete Boggon Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Books
Dreams From My Father, by Barack Obama
Obama's prose style is much like that of his engaging speeches Read more »| 08 Sep 2007