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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MusicLeif Vollebekk – New Ways
Leif Vollebekk's latest album New Ways is perfectly packaged and well-delivered, but fails to see Vollebekk break out of his easy-listening niche Read more »| 12 Nov 2019 -
MusicTNGHT – II
II bears the same restrained energy and cheek of TNGHT, yanked right up to date by a pair of plugged-in beatmakers Read more »| 12 Nov 2019 -
MusicThe Ninth Wave – Infancy Part 2
Concluding their audaciously-released debut album in triumphant fashion, Part 2 of Infancy shows The Ninth Wave are here to stay Read more »| 12 Nov 2019 -
BooksRabbits for Food by Binnie Kirshenbaum
Binnie Kirshenbaum's novel is a darkly humorous look at the opposing states of success and failure, love and loneliness Read more »| 12 Nov 2019 -
MusicMaking Tracks @ The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, 10 Nov
The ardent sincerity of tonight's performers and their desire to bring their concoctions to life belies a genuine passion that is heartwarming to see Read more »| 12 Nov 2019 -
MusicTindersticks – No Treasure But Hope
Tindersticks' 11th album is a somewhat uneven collection of chamber pop tracks from one of the genre's mainstays Read more »| 11 Nov 2019
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MusicCold War Kids – New Age Norms 1
Beyond the sweet melodies and striking instrumentals, New Age Norms 1 is a project with a message Read more »| 11 Nov 2019 -
ArtNational Galleries Scotland dump BP exhibition
National Galleries Scotland announced that this will be the last time the BP Portrait Award will be hosted at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, citing BP's contribution to the current climate emergency as the reason for cutting ties Read more »| 11 Nov 2019 -
MusicVampire Weekend @ Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 7 Nov
Ezra Koenig and co deliver a two-hour set that manages to be exactly as polished as you'd expect Read more »| 11 Nov 2019 -
MusicThe Art School closure: the story so far
Glasgow loses another of its key venues with the Art School union announcing it's closed to the public until at least 2020 Read more »| 11 Nov 2019 -
TheatreStill No Idea @ Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Lisa Hammond and Rachael Spence tackle public and media attitudes to disability in the arts with a mixture of humour and brutal honesty Read more »| 11 Nov 2019 -
MusicOptimo, Night School and Green Door on Free Love
We speak to three people who have helped shape Free Love's career from their formation through their days as Happy Meals to their reinvention as Free Love Read more »| 11 Nov 2019 -
ArtArika Episode 10: Experimental Science, Radical Politics
Cutting-edge maths and physics is paralleled with experiences of Black, POC, Queer, Trans and Indigenous communities in Arika's latest programme in Glasgow Read more »| 11 Nov 2019 -
FilmGlasgow Film Festival lines up dystopian sci-fi retrospective
Glasgow Film Festival unveil a free retrospective of dystopian cinema, and a showcase of Icelandic cinema, for their 2020 edition Read more »| 11 Nov 2019 -
Tv RadioThe End of the F***ing World: Series 2
This sequel to James (Alex Lawther) and Alyssa (Jessica Barden)'s adventures has morphed into a different, less anarchic and explosive experience – but it is richer for it Read more »| 08 Nov 2019