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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Books
Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle
Since there is no focal conflict or struggle the story lacks intensity. Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Music
The Futureheads @ ABC1
As powerful and full blooded a show as you could expect from the gaggle of bands campaigning for our hearts and minds.
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Music
Just Jack @ The Sub Club
the music and his vocals become reminiscent of a less arrogant Jamiroquai Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Music
Hayseed Dixie @ The Liquid Room
The speed and accuracy with which their fingers burnt across the frets was spectacle enough in itself Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Music
Tool @ SECC
Overwhelmed, as one would be Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Film
Venus
A final stage for one of the theatre greats. Read more »| 11 Jan 2007
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Film
Babel
A comprehensive statement on an adult world gone astray from its core principle. Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Music
The DeLoreans - Shank EP
The pop appeal of the Deloreans excuses the fact they've not yet found their musical footing Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
MusicThe Little Ones - Lovers Who Uncover
There's harmony aplenty and enough jangly guitar to last a lifetime Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Books
The Black Dossier.
Back in 1984, the cartoonist, writer and satirist Willie Rushton wrote an illustrated novel, W.G. Grace's Last Case. In it the renowned Victorian cricketer j... Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Music
Dancing Mice/The Vivians @ Bannermans Underworld
Girls are Dancing!! Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
MusicBiffy Clyro - Semi-Mental
Having sought out the midas touch of Rage Against the Machine producer GGGarth Richardson in Vancouver, Glasgow's favourite and possibly most prolific hard r... Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Music
A Muso's Top 10: Comets On Fire
a melting pot of the long-players presently keeping their solar system ablaze during these winter months... Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Clubs
DJ Chart - Bradley C (Chew The Fat!)
Bradley C is the main man behind Glasgow's highly sucessful Chew The Fat! parties at the Sub Club. Exclusively for the Skinny, he presents a top ten that draws from Brighton's Fat! Records (the club's mothership) and the best of the breakbeat scene. Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
MusicTenacious D @ SECC, 11 Dec
With an able backing band rounded out by Charlie Chaplin, Colonel Sanders and the Anti-Christ, laughs and bullhorns are rife Read more »| 11 Jan 2007