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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MusicTame Impala – The Slow Rush
The Slow Rush is a partial reinvention of the Tame Impala sound, with Kevin Parker arranging vast soundscapes shaded with a human touch Read more »| 13 Feb 2020 -
Music(Sandy) Alex G @ St Luke's, Glasgow, 9 Feb
Alex G and co mix sincere emotion with improvised hijinks, eventually bringing it all crashing down at St Luke's Read more »| 13 Feb 2020 -
MusicWide Days 2020: Showcase artists announced
The six bands to play this year's Wide Days new music showcase in Edinburgh have been revealed Read more »| 12 Feb 2020 -
TheatreManipulate 2020: Remember?, Transfigured, and A Brief History of The Male Fragile Ego
Manipulate presents mesmerising and multilayered work from Nunah Theatre, Oceanallover and Jordan & Skinner Read more »| 12 Feb 2020 -
TheatreManipulate 2020: Twa Pirate Quines, Dreams of The Small Gods & After Chekov
Puppetry, performance art and pirates: our writers report on three, entirely different stories told at this year's Manipulate Read more »| 12 Feb 2020 -
FilmThe French Dispatch looks like Wes Anderson to the max
The trailer for Wes Anderson’s latest star-studded movie, The French Dispatch is here, featuring Frances McDormand, Saoirse Ronan, Tilda Swinton, Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody, Anderson’s talisman Bill Murray... and Timothée Chalamet in the bath Read more »| 12 Feb 2020
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MusicNyx Nótt – Aux Pieds de la Nuit
Aidan Moffat continues his recent flurry of activity with a strong collection of instrumentals under a new moniker Read more »| 12 Feb 2020 -
MusicGeorgia on new album Seeking Thrills
In the wake of her latest record Seeking Thrills, we speak to beatmaker and pop producer Georgia about dancefloor escapism, dodgy 80s dance music and finding a place of one’s own Read more »| 12 Feb 2020 -
MusicThe Massacre Cave – GODLUST
When the hooks hit on The Massacre Cave's debut album, they are magnificent Read more »| 12 Feb 2020 -
ArtDiverse Critics: Four writers selected for scheme
Four emerging writers have been selected for the Diverse Critics scheme from Disability Arts Online, Creative Scotland and The Skinny Read more »| 12 Feb 2020 -
MusicThe Skinny Q&A: Pictish Trail
Johnny Lynch, aka Pictish Trail, gives us the skinny on his first celebrity crush, who would play him in a rom-com and who he'd like to arm wrestle Read more »| 11 Feb 2020 -
ArtPassion Projects: Carrie Maclennan on being a 'Concept Librarian'
A sense of curiosity and wit is palpable in all of Carrie Maclennan’s projects and her new role as Concept Librarian at one of the most talked about hotels, The Standard, London, is, without an ounce of hyperbole, a marriage made in heaven Read more »| 11 Feb 2020 -
Tv RadioUnbelievable
Netflix mini-series Unbelievable interlinks the stories of a teen rape victim and two detectives on the hunt for a serial rapist, showing how the predominantly male system of US law enforcement is rotten Read more »| 11 Feb 2020 -
Tv RadioThe Good Place: Season 4
The Good Place's last episode delivers a near-perfect conclusion to the fantasy comedy Read more »| 10 Feb 2020 -
ArtPaula Rego @ Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Paula Rego distils well-known stories and social issues into surprising and charged portraits Read more »| 10 Feb 2020