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
E11 (Hot Aches)
MacLeod fell several times, often as far as seventy feet before being caught by the rope, often at the cost of severe personal injury Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
The Hazey Janes @ Cabaret Voltaire
A thoroughly enjoyable live act, even if drying paint becomes an attractive alternative Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Books
Prologue
I may have overpriced my integrity by suggesting that an island in the Bahamas would buy my gushing praise Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Books
KatzenJammer - Creative Writing
The slickness of the drink had fuddled the part of my brain known as the 'mum-spot', the part which always knew best. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Books
Scots Who Made America, by Rick Wilson
The first man on the moon was the son of a Scotsman and Uncle Sam himself came from Greenock Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Books
The Gift - Lewis Hyde
his examples serve as a fascinating survey of human myth-making Read more »| 12 Nov 2006
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Books
House of Meetings by Martin Amis
an astonishing command of grammar and a vocabulary that the average dictionary would envy Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
The Wombats - Moving to New York
B-side Party in a Forest (Where's Laura) is a far superior song Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Electric Eel Shock - Maybe I think, They Can Beat Nirvana (Xavier's longer version)
Professional angling, making false teeth and a Japanese Karaoke champion? Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
The Guillemots @ Glasgow ABC
Perhaps it's the soporific nature of the band's outpourings that makes listening to a whole assemblage in one setting simply too much. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Scissors For Lefty - Underhanded Romance
The faster, louder moments are the finest, as they are often offset by softer melodies that bob and weave around paced, rhythmic drums and guitar. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Hayseed Dixie - You Wanna See Something Really Scary?
Out the day before Halloween, this mini-album features some inspired silliness Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Comedy
The Thursday Show, The Stand, Glasgow, Oc 26
His Scottish routine was as good as I've seen from an Englishman Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Film
If I Should Fall From Grace
Tragic, hilarious, infuriating and often completely incomprehensible Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Clubs
Breaks & Hip-Hop
There's beats and breaks aplenty locally Read more »| 12 Nov 2006