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FilmListen to The Cineskinny podcast!
The Cineskinny is the film review podcast from The Skinny – our newest episode is a chill hangout where we catch up on our favourite films of the year so far Read more »| 03 Feb 2022 -
FestivalsYoung Team: Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2025 preview
GFT's young film programming team have come up with an electric lineup of films for this year's Glasgow Youth Film Festival Read more »| 17 Sep 2025 -
StudentsFresh(ers) Hell: Our uni horror stories
The Skinny team has dug around in their memories to find and share some freshers and flatmate/halls horror stories from their uni days. Some memories are traumatising, some funny (in retrospect), all vivid and enduring Read more »| 17 Sep 2025 -
MusicCore. Festival 2025: The Report
In a new and much more metal-friendly September slot, Core.'s 2025 outing takes in metal, hardcore, grindcore and more in a three-day celebration of noise Read more »| 16 Sep 2025 -
IntersectionsMan Down, Level Up: Sex, socialising, and the male gaze
It’s all too easy to get stuck in the male gaze and let it drive your nights out: one writer tells how their uni experiences – and some Wet Leg lyrics – helped them change perspective Read more »| 16 Sep 2025 -
Things To DoGet The September 2025 Issue of The Skinny!
Looking for a copy of our September 2025 magazine? Here's where to find one in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee Read more »| 02 Sep 2024
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IntersectionsLove Bites: Placing & Replacing
This month’s Love Bites columnist reflects on loving a place you once couldn’t wait to leave Read more »| 16 Sep 2025 -
MusicKojey Radical – Don't Look Down
On the followup to his debut album, Reasons to Smile, Kojey Radical continues to carve out his own sound Read more »| 16 Sep 2025 -
FilmHappyend
A group of rebellious school friends with a passion for throwing secret raves navigate a doom-laden, heavily surveilled future in this intriguing coming-of-age story Read more »| 15 Sep 2025 -
ArtAn Imaginary Museum: Trans Masc Studies at EAF25
Unbound by institutional rules, artist Ellis Jackson Kroese's research project collects and curates ephemera related to the Scottish trans masculine community Read more »| 15 Sep 2025 -
MusicJoanne Robertson – Blurrr
A swooning account of bedsit melancholia, Blurrr is Joanne Robertson's finest record yet Read more »| 15 Sep 2025 -
MusicNewDad – Altar
With a move to London and a pared back lineup, Galway trio NewDad lean towards a more guitar-driven sound on their second album Read more »| 15 Sep 2025
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MusicFormer Champ – i saw you in paradise
Former Champ's debut album hits home as a summertime smash of power-pop Read more »| 15 Sep 2025 -
FestivalsScottish Queer International Film Festival returns for 2025
The much-loved Scottish Queer International Film Festival – or SQIFF for short – celebrates its landmark year with features, an exhibition, a craft fair, live performance and lots of queer short films Read more »| 12 Sep 2025 -
MusicEasy Listening: Streaming, AI and our changing relationship with music
Individual music taste has become a path of least resistance, rather than an act of creative discovery – one writer explores how streaming and AI has altered our relationship with music Read more »| 12 Sep 2025 -
ArtTemporary Worlds: Mike Nelson, Siân Davey and HOST at EAF25
Among the varied programme of the 2025 Edinburgh Art Festival, three exhibitions in the city are threaded together through a shared interrogation of transformed space and memory Read more »| 12 Sep 2025