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
Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip - Angles (Sunday Best)
The subject matter here is as varied as the audience it will appeal to. Read more »| 23 May 2008 -
Music
Body Snatchers Gonna Crash The Party
The Body Snatchers have come out of (almost) nowhere to make what may well be the party album of the year. Alex Burden tries to pin the lunatics down Read more »| 23 May 2008 -
Clubs
June DJ Chart: Hobbes (Trouble)
This month's chart is compiled by Hobbes (Trouble DJs, Black Spring DJs), resident at Synthetic Love (Lulu, Tuesdays), Limbo (Voodoo Rooms, Thursdays) and Trouble (Cabaret Voltaire, bi-monthly Fridays). Whet your appetite for their 6th Birthday on 6 June at Cabaret Voltaire (11pm - 3am, £6/5) with his audiolicious selections! Read more »| 23 May 2008 -
Clubs
Padded Cell @ Optimo, Sub Club, Glasgow, 22 Jun
Like Kelvingrove Park and the Barras, Optimo has become something of a Glasgow institution. Having run for over ten years, Padded Cell’s appearance is ... Read more »| 23 May 2008 -
Clubs
Sunday Circus @ The Outhouse/The Courtyard, Edinburgh/Glasgow, 15 & 29 Jun
June sees Sunday Circus go coast-to-coast, with events taking place in both Glasgow and in Edinburgh for the first time. The monthly, afternoon-to-evening e... Read more »| 23 May 2008 -
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MISC. (live) @ Sleaze, Club 69, Paisley, 13 Jun
To celebrate their 2nd Birthday, Sleaze welcome MISC. to perform live. Read more »| 23 May 2008
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Clubs
Marco Carola and Gaiser @ Pressure, The Arches. 27 Jun
Summer gets into full swing as Slam use their unmatchable reputation as the largest Scottish techno promoters to bring some more hard hitters along for the June edition Read more »| 23 May 2008 -
Clubs
Microphyst @ The Audacious Collective, The Bongo Club. 12 Jun
These kinds of nights should probably come with a warning label – Danger: Explicit Acoustics – Contents of brain may be re-arranged Read more »| 23 May 2008 -
Clubs
Mixkings and Capitol 1212 @ Volume!, Club Ego, Edinburgh, 21 Jun
This month the volume is turned down on bass wobbles, and turned up on lyrical flows and cut and paste sounds – in short, hip-hop! Read more »| 23 May 2008 -
Clubs
Subculture Boat Party @ Greenock/Glasgow, 21 June
A beat odyssey to Loch Fyne and back Read more »| 23 May 2008 -
Clubs
The Drum and Breaks Curriculum
Nothing beats topping up the old lobster tan while drinking warm cider, hours away from civilisation. What better way to start than with Rockness. Read more »| 23 May 2008 -
Music
Band on the Run
As Band of Horses stand on the edge of a relentless European schedule, Paul Neeson talks to frontman Ben Bridwell about evolution, irksome industry semantics, and whether he really could be the next great midwestern story teller Read more »| 22 May 2008 -
Music
Tetine - Let Your Xs Be Ys
Following the success of Bonde de Role and CSS, Tetine may seem mere bandwagon-jumpers in regards to the baile funk scene, but this is in fact their eighth a... Read more »| 22 May 2008 -
Music
Dancing Mice - Eroded
A more entertaining listen than first impressions suggest Read more »| 22 May 2008 -
Film
Universal Cinema Classics: Marx Brothers
Animal Crackers (1930), Monkey Business (1931), Horse Feathers (1932), Duck Soup (1933) Read more »| 22 May 2008