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
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 -
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
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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 -
MusicScissors 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 -
MusicHayseed 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 -
Music
Jet - Return of the Great Pretenders?
Really, we don't give a shit, we write songs for ourselves, and if other people like them that's great. We're not worried about success, that's not why we write and, if you're writing to sell records you're not going to get anywhere. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Music
Juliette and the Licks @ ABC
Lewis tears into her songs with vein-popping conviction Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Clubs
Tomboy - '4'
It's a stop-start affair which sees a bongo-break married to acid squelches, topped with Star Trek-like samples Read more »| 12 Nov 2006