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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ClubsScottish Clubbing Highlights: May 2025
Cast not a clout till May is oot – the month's top clubbing picks include Proc Fiskal, Daniel Avery, Sam Bangura, healthy and common room Read more »| 29 Apr 2025 -
FilmScottish Film Events: May 2025
May's cinema highlights include three great film festivals (Alchemy, Falastine and Folk Film Gathering) plus GFT's 51st birthday and the Cameo showing some David Lynch love Read more »| 29 Apr 2025 -
MusicScottish Live Music Highlights: May 2025
May's gig round-up brings a bunch of showcases of new Scottish music, touring visits from Wet Leg, Soccer Mommy and Mannequin Pussy, and loads more Read more »| 29 Apr 2025 -
ArtEdinburgh International Mural Festival to launch this summer
A new festival dedicated to street art and community – Edinburgh International Mural Festival – will make its debut as part of Hidden Door this June Read more »| 28 Apr 2025 -
TheatreScottish Theatre Highlights: May 2025
May is full of ambitious productions, including tours, new plays, and brand new companies across Scotland Read more »| 28 Apr 2025 -
BooksForeign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange by Katie Goh
In their debut memoir, Edinburgh-based writer Katie Goh traces the history of the orange alongside their own story of migration and identity Read more »| 28 Apr 2025
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MusicModel/Actriz – Pirouette
On Pirouette Model/Actriz continue their tightrope walk over chaos and introspection, desire and vulnerability, with camp aplomb Read more »| 28 Apr 2025 -
MusicEli Keszler – Eli Keszler
Unmistakably indebted to the imagination and soundscapes of David Lynch and Angelo Badalementi, Eli Keszler's latest album unfortunately falls into some common traps along the way Read more »| 28 Apr 2025 -
ComedyScottish Comedy Highlights: May 2025
If silly stuff’s your vice, May’s got it in spades, with shows from John-Luke Roberts and Tom Lawrinson and a full-blown Clown Extravaganza on the horizon Read more »| 28 Apr 2025 -
ArtScottish Art Highlights: May 2025
Linder Sterling confronts patriarchal ideas of gender and sexuality in her first retrospective in Scotland, while Jeremy Deller invites you to a collaborative punk performance in Dundee Read more »| 28 Apr 2025 -
MusicChat Pile @ QMU, Glasgow, 23 Apr
Impossibly affable Oklahomans Chat Pile bring their mix of barrelling riffs and harrowing storytelling to Glasgow for a show that's equal parts ferocious and fun Read more »| 25 Apr 2025 -
FilmCorin Sworn on new film On Weaving
As part of their residency at Alchemy Film and Arts, artists Luke Fowler and Corin Sworn have made On Weaving, a film considering the legacies of textile artists Bernat and Margaret Klein through the lens of their modernist home. Sworn tells us more Read more »| 25 Apr 2025 -
ArtGLOW Up: Edinburgh College's GLOW Festival returns
Edinburgh College's GLOW Festival is back; with a year's worth of graduate projects open to the public this summer, here are our top picks Read more »| 25 Apr 2025 -
ArtCiara Phillips: Undoing It @ Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Canadian-Irish artist Ciara Phillips impresses with her dynamic large-scale prints that transform Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art Read more »| 24 Apr 2025 -
MusicSpotlight On... her picture
Ahead of releasing their latest single, Reasons I Tried, we catch up with Anny Tahaney of Glasgow trio her picture Read more »| 24 Apr 2025