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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Film
Spotlight On - James McAvoy
The twenty-seven year-old Glaswegian actor has starring roles in a fleet of notable movies set to dock in cinemas over the coming year. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - The Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager (Part 1) (Atlantic)
A bo-ho teenage cult-leader with no suicidal suggestions? Worth keeping an eye on. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
Hot Club de Paris - Everyeveryeverything/Hello Comrade (I Quit My Job) (Moshi Moshi)
Hot Club de Paris produce frenetic, naked pop music that sounds as if it might trip over itself at any moment Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
Jack Butler - Velvet Prose
Is another retro wiry-guitar band to compliment the NME-fuelled nu-alternative bandwagon really necessary? Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
James Yorkston - Steady As She Goes
Beautiful, no matter where you call home Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
Muse - Starlight
so unfashionable it sounds like the theme for some short-lived 80s TV soap Read more »| 13 Oct 2006
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Music
Razorlight - America
...you wish Borrell would stop harping on about the place and just emigrate Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
Spearmint - Psycho Magnet
Peers at you from your stereo like a lovelorn Bernard Sumner Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
Stephen Malkmus - Kindling for the Master remix EP
Stephen Malkmus gets the remix treatment on this adhoc little EP Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Music
The Automatic - Recover
A shallow, tuneless void of a song Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Clubs
Turbofun, The Art School, Glasgow, Aug 25
In this age of cool kitsch and bastard pop it's refreshing to find a night whose playlist can resolutely be defined as 'eclectic'. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Clubs
Spank Rock, Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, August 30
Spank Rock have laid down the blueprint for the future of hip-hop Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Clubs
James Lavelle, Sugarbeat, Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Aug 25
you know there's going to be something good on the cards Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Clubs
Hybrid, Chew The Fat, Subclub, Glasgow, Sep 1
Not quite fat enough, but pleasantly chubby. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Clubs
DJ Marky, Marc EP, and Codenine, Po Na Na, Edinburgh, Aug 31
Marky radiated waves of everything from Sao Paulo rhythms to heavy rolling beats bubbling joyfully Read more »| 13 Oct 2006