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
A Piece Of Havana, Fruitmarket, Glasgow, 24 Feb
Triangulo Escuro seem to go down well with the massed revelers, but it's hard to escape the thought that they might not be able to hold their own in another setting Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Cortney Tidwell - Don't Let the Stars Keep Us Tangled Up [Ewan Pearson remix]
Pearson plays up the beats and streamlines the synths and keys into hypnotic electronica, which is generally uplifting Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Motor - Unhuman
The acid sound gets an electro-house re-birth on Unhuman, fitted around jackin' beats, vocodered lyrics, and erratic clicks. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Trashed
Amid a flurry of changes to the Edinburgh scene (the closure of Sala, opening of Destination's women's night, and the relocation to Studio 24 of Velvet and Z... Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Books
The Savage Altar by Asa Larsson
Larsson consistently uses tired clichés and one-dimensional, over-familiar characters Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Books
The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
Lest the moral of the story get you down (or alienate the lucrative American market) there's a love story to divert the attention. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007
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Books
Prince: Thief in the Temple by Brian Morton
Purple and peach sex grooves evolving at a frightening pace... Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Books
Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
Will rivet eyes to its pages. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Books
Gold by Dan Rhodes
Who but Dan Rhodes can weave so seamlessly the hilarious and the pathetic? Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Clubs
Niyi - 808 Klap / Ur Mummy
Niyi is equal parts Wiley, Timmy Mallett pop dross and breakbeat hardcore Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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France Copland, DPLSPK, Maggie May's, Glasgow, 17 Mar
An entire array of cleverness Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Books
Believe in the Sign by Mark Hodkinson
What it means to pathologically follow failure. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Film
Ultimate Avengers II
An entertaining slice of superheroic lunacy Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Clubs
Roll Deep - Rules & Regulations
For true, grimy Roll Deep, seek the mixtapes àbut if you're put off by grime's spiky harshness, this album will definitely be more compatible with your ears. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
Music
Justin Nozuka - After Tonight
Tame and commercial: indicating potential, but almost too polished to make an impact. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007