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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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 -
Clubs
Penpushers, Eaters, Sileni, Bannerman's, Edinburgh, Dec 3
Penpushers should be huge. You should own all of their albums. Why don't you own all of their albums? Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Music
De Rosa - Hopes and Little Jokes
You can make music and be Scottish without being in a folk band Read more »| 11 Jan 2007
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Music
Richard Ashcroft @ SECC, 29 Nov
This challenge is Ashcroft's triumph: to play great songs greatly. Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Clubs
Solescience Annual Bang Off, Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, 12 Jan
Keep the Festive spirit going well after the last Xmas tree is turned into firewood! Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Clubs
The Drum and Bass Curriculum - January 2007
The mighty Manga and its 11th birthday at The Liquid Room Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Clubs
Solescience 'Best of 2006' DJ Chart
1. Rekid - Next Stop Chicago (Rekid) Without a doubt the biggest record for the Solescience dancefloor in 2006. 2. Prztz - Small Talk (Classic) A George Cli... Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Clubs
Optimo's 9th Birthday, Sub Club, Glasgow, 26 Nov
468 Optimos have gone on before, but tonight it felt like the DJs were taking their job more seriously than ever before as they tried to ram nine years of musical jewels into every auricle Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Film
Apocalypto: Mel Gibson Interview
A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Music
DJ Shadow @ Carling Academy, 29 Nov
He's still at his best when his sounds are imbued with the darkness and frustration of the metropolitan condition Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
Music
The Glasgow School
January sees many of our indigenous folk musicians and bands of a peaceful, gentle nature flourishing Read more »| 11 Jan 2007 -
MusicLive Music Highlights - Jan, 2007
Without a doubt the gig of the month belongs to Sweden's Radio Dept. Read more »| 11 Jan 2007