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Music
Rianne Downey – Come What May EP
You don't get a second chance to make a first impression. Following the sell-out success of her debut EP, 2021's Fuel to the Flame, Glasgow singer-songw... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
Music
Mac DeMarco @ Kelvingrove Bandstand, Glasgow, 26 Jun
Romeo Taylor is an absolute riot. It's not easy playing a show to a quarter-full bandstand with the baking sun right in your face, but Taylor is unrelentingl... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
Festivals
Trojan Horse wins Amnesty Freedom of Expression Award
Amnesty International today (23 Aug) revealed the winner of its coveted Freedom of Expression Award, the charity’s annual award given to work at the Ed... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Things To Do
What's On Scotland 15-22 Mar: St Patrick's Day
Yes, that is Brian McFadden and Keith Duffy you see in the image above and yes, they are currently touring under the wildly unoriginal band name Boyzlife (Bo... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Music
Scottish New Music Round-Up: June 2021
It’s set to be a big month for music lovers all across the UK as the first of two Record Store Day drops lands on 12 June. Drop one includes a smatteri... Read more »| Updated almost 3 years ago -
Film
Filmhouse’s new House Guest is… The Skinny!
We at The Skinny love Filmhouse’s House Guest initiative, the ongoing season where the Edinburgh cinema invite some of the most interesting artists wor... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Art
Space and Time: Scotland's rural art offerings
From the Highlands to the Islands, Scotland is home to many rural arts spaces that provide a thought-provoking experience year-round – but which are pa... Read more »| Updated 9 months ago -
Festivals
The Best Comedy Shows of Edinburgh Fringe 2019
The comedy section of the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme features thousands of performances of over 1500 shows, so it helps to be able to narrow th... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
Intersections
We Are Here: East and South East Asian Creativity in Scotland
I moved to Scotland in 2016, thinking at first that it was going to be a temporary move. Instead, I fell in love with the place and have been proud to call i... Read more »| Updated almost 3 years ago -
Film
The Best Film Events in Scotland in December
1. Ester Krumbachová retrospective The Murder of Mr Devil Ester Krumbachová might not be a household name in Scotland, but this key figure of... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Students
Dead poets' societies
If you like watching plays, but want to be more involved in making them, then Edinburgh has a highly respected student theatre scene which has seen criticall... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
Theatre
And Then He Ate Me @ Traverse
Strange, fantastical and dark, And Then He Ate Me is a fairytale for the stage that bites back. Created by the award-winning French company Velo Theatre, thi... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
Theatre
Autumn Portaits
Autumn Portraits begins as one might expect, with puppeteer Eric Bass donning a mask and silently bending the will and the actions of one of his many, many p... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
Theatre
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
If art, by its very nature, is political, then Mark Thomson’s revival of Bertolt Brecht’s 1944 parable for the ages, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, ... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
Theatre
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
Has there ever been a play so celebrated in contemporary Scottish theatre as John McGrath’s The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black, Black Oil? The play, a... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Theatre
The Festival of Ian Smith: A Celebration of Death
After Ian Smith, the Artistic Director and co-founder of Mischief La-Bas Theatre Company, took his own life in 2014 after a long battle with depression, Angi... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Theatre
Ask Auntie Trash: Fuck Christmas
Dear Auntie Trash, I have a confession to make: I don’t like Christmas. I mean, it was great when I was a kid and it’s nice to give people prese... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Theatre
Eastern Promise: 2017 Preview
Returning to Platform for its seventh year, Glasgow’s Eastern Promise festival is branching out by adding theatre performances from some of Scotland's ... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Theatre
Ask Auntie Trash: Dim the Lights
My friend died a few weeks ago. Those five words are hard to write, and even harder to say. My friend died suddenly and we don’t know why. It’s n... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
Theatre
Ask Auntie Trash: Who Can I Be Now?
Hi Trash, I’ve just submitted my dissertation and I have no idea what I want to do with my life. I don’t even know if I want to work in the same... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Theatre
Ask Auntie Trash: This Review is Bad
Dear Trash, My boyfriend is an actor, and he was recently in a play that toured nationally, and got mostly good reviews. However, he got one really bad rev... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
Theatre
Hidden Door 2017: Lost in Leith Theatre
On arrival at Leith Theatre, the site of the 2017 Hidden Door festival, I get the sense that the building has been holding its breath, like it’s been w... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Theatre
Limited Editions @ Netherbow
The average night at the theatre will consist of one, possibly two shows at most, so when a theatre company attempts to stage six new short plays in one even... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
Magazines
White Rabbit Red Rabbit
The realities of living in modern Iran are presented in a new and completely original way in Nassim Soleimanpour’s White Rabbit Red Rabbit. Produced by... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
Theatre
Confessions of a Mormon Boy
The first chapter of Steven Fales’ Mormon trilogy, Confessions of a Mormon Boy, a long-running off-Broadway hit has finally arrived in Edinburgh. Follo... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
Festivals
52 Man Pick Up @ Hill Street
The lost loves and the passionate fumbling of comedienne and performer, Desiree Burch, makes the basis of her comedy solo, 52 Man Pick Up, an interactive sho... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
Theatre
The Seven Sins of Scottish Panto
A quick glance at some of Scotland’s leading theatres reveals that the seven deady sins are alive and well in the nation’s traditional festive pe... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Theatre
Ask Auntie Trash: Consent in Theatre
Dearest Trash, In the wake of Donald Trump's comments about women, I was wondering how important consent is to actors on the stage? As an aspiring actor, ca... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Theatre
A Tribute to Dario Fo
Dario Fo, who died in October, aged 90, was one of the most influential playwrights, directors, artists, and actors of his generation. Awarded the Nobel Priz... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Comedy
Is the Edinburgh Fringe too small?
The official brochure launch, which boasted that the festival was going to play host to 3,269 shows in 294 venues, revealed that the numbers are 'marginally'... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago