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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Music
The Poems - I Am A Believer
All sufferers of SAD should take note and have a listen.
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Music
Envy @ The Arches
The mixing desk would have to send out a search party to rescue the anaemic guitar sound. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Comedy
Mark Watson @ The Stand, Glasgow, 9 Nov
With nervous energy Watson babbles out his material in enthusiastic bursts Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Film
I'm Not There
An extraordinary pop art puzzle. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Music
The National @ ABC, 2 Nov
Uncomplicated in delivery but heart-wrenching by nature. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Music
LCD Soundsystem at Barrowlands
James Murphy has mastered the middle of the party but the warm up and encore need a lot more work. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007
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Music
Arcade Fire @ SECC, 26 Oct
The pompous sloganeering of a spoofed televangelist announces the Arcade Fire to a sizeable crowd, but any comedic effect is lost in the soulless cave of the... Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Music
Sons and Daughters, Fat Sams, Dundee
Always compelling. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Music
ON:07 - The Challenge of the New Reality
The last decade has been marked by a state of relentless change which has had an impact on all aspects of the global music industry. Digital technologies, an... Read more »| 17 Nov 2007 -
Clubs
Rival Consoles - The Decadent EP
Hardly the sexy, decadent experience we were expecting Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Clubs
Full Phat, Siren, The Hive, Edinburgh, 22 Nov
Full Phat's unique take on classic house and techno promises a night full of pounding party tracks Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Clubs
for addition to electro feature in separate box
Contentious, thought-provoking, and down-right argument-causing: this was the situation the Beats writers faced when trying to summarise the greatest electro tracks to be reckoned with. We veered down genre off-shoots and even consulted various movies on the topic, such as Darkbeat: An Electro World Voyage (http://www.darkbeatmovie.com). But that didn't stop the ranting and raving. We turn the argument over to our readers now! Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Clubs
Ali Love: The ups and downs and ins and outs
SF: The Skinny gets up close with Ali Love and finds out what he has to give.
PQ: ""I wanna perfect my art the same way as a martial artist, you wanna be able to do the one inch punch of death technique but with music!"" Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Clubs
Rob Reng, Az-Tech, The Caves, Edinburgh, 12 Oct
The music is unbelievably funky all night Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Clubs
Mr Scruff, Ego, Edinburgh, 18 Oct
His mixing creates a magical spark, as the music moves from swing style jazz to dirty deep bass, hitting every genre in between Read more »| 07 Nov 2007