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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TheatreAnimal Night - The Wasp Factory
Iain Banks' fantasy classic The Wasp Factory is stunning in its own right. If Director Ed Robson can meet the challenge of the text, this new production should be spectacular... Read more »| 11 Apr 2008 -
ClubsJames Pants: Hot Licks
When James Pants’ new album Welcome dropped into the office, we were well impressed by his take on mixed-up funk. We asked around, and it turned out Alex Burden was already on the case Read more »| 11 Apr 2008 -
ClubsRZArecting Bobby
Is he a producer? Is he a film star? This month he'll be neither as Robert 'RZA' Diggs assumes the persona of Bobby Digital, flying in to drop a fat stack of futuristic funk and a flare for kung-fu film philosophy on Scotland at the last Triptych Read more »| 08 Apr 2008 -
MusicLupe Fiasco - Paris, Tokyo
If you like your hip-hop lazy, feel good and unashamedly commercial, this’ll be right up your street Read more »| 05 Apr 2008 -
MusicWitch - Paralyzed
Five grown men so indebted to proto-70s metal that 'Black Sabbath' is written through them like a stick of rock Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Music
Farewell to Triptych
The end is nigh for Scotland's premier showcase in avant-garde music. Paul Mitchell talks up a swansong for one of the more innovative festivals to grace these isles in the last decade Read more »| 01 Apr 2008
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Music
Sergeant @ The Doghouse, 30 Apr
Yeah, there's a faux Mancunian twang in there, but if it's as fresh as a Scottish glen, then fuck it, who cares? Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Film
Belgian Waffle
The feature debut from Oscar winning director Martin McDonagh, In Bruges is a bitingly funny, no-holds-barred black farce that lands somewhere between Grosse... Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Music
Frightened Rabbit show no fear
Having hopped from their dark burrow into the big, wide world, Glasgow's Frightened Rabbit are ready to bring their live show to a hutch near you, Nick Mitchell finds Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Music
Wake The President / Kingfishers Split 7""
Wake The President betray their love of all things Postcard with You Can't Change That Boy, another impeccably stylish taster of a band on the up Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Music
Pajo reborn as Dead Child
David Pajo tells Dave Kerr why he's taken a break from recording psychedelic solo records to satisfy a craving for something more aggressive, but not necessarily heavier Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
Edinburgh Boat Party, South Queensferry Pier, 20 Apr
Setting sail from South Queensferry on the third Sunday of each month, the boat takes you a house-guided tour of the coast, courtesy of residents Harry Bennett and Leon Easter (3345) Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Music
The Black Kids are Alright
With the music industry in a state of disarray and new artists using innovative techniques to channel their music directly to the fans, Billy Hamilton met up with Florida pop-cooers Black Kids to find out exactly how a fledgling transatlantic act survives in 2008. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Clubs
Juan Atkins: A Model Artist
Making his live Scottish debut as Model 500 at this month's Triptych Festival, Detroit techno pioneer Juan Atkins is also playing to mark Rub-A-Dub Records' 16th Birthday celebrations. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Music
True Confessions of a Dashboard
Chris Carrabba may be famous for his over-earnest lyrics about broken hearts, but when Hamza K recently caught up with the Dashboard Confessional leader the chat was all about the spirit of punk rock and that trip he took to jail Read more »| 01 Apr 2008