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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TheatreLes Misérables @ Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
The long-awaited return of the infamous smash hit musical is an exceptional and captivating production Read more »| 28 Jan 2019 -
MusicSwervedriver – Future Ruins
Bold and ambitious, Swervedriver's sixth studio album Future Ruins is deliriously difficult to place, and all the more exciting for it Read more »| 25 Jan 2019 -
MusicBlood Red Shoes – Get Tragic
Get Tragic is a powerful album, raw in its unflinching honesty, experimental in its lyrical and instrumental balances, and deeply moving Read more »| 25 Jan 2019 -
Clubs
Rebecca Vasmant on new Sub Club night Era Suite
Glasgow-based DJ, producer and jazz guru Rebecca Vasmant is the brains behind Era Suite, a new party night at Sub Club bringing jazz, Afrobeat, Latin, funk and electronica to the dance floor Read more »| 25 Jan 2019 -
BooksDavid Keenan introduces For The Good Times
David Keenan discusses The Troubles, mobster humour, and his second novel For The Good Times Read more »| 25 Jan 2019 -
MusicJohn Grant on Love is Magic and art in music
Following the release of his fourth solo album, Love is Magic, we talk art and music with John Grant Read more »| 25 Jan 2019
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Books
For The Good Times by David Keenan
David Keenan's new novel takes a mystic and poetic look at Belfast during The Troubles, capturing its sound and fury first-hand Read more »| 25 Jan 2019 -
MusicAndrew Wasylyk on The Paralian
We talk to Andrew Wasylyk about his ambitious third solo-record The Paralian and his launch shows in Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow Read more »| 25 Jan 2019 -
MusicThe Streets @ O2 Academy, Glasgow, 21 Jan
The once-familiar voice of adolescent Britain doesn't disappoint with a high-energy rollercoaster of hits at Glasgow's O2 Academy Read more »| 24 Jan 2019 -
Music
Behind Bossy Love's Favourite 00s Jams
After releasing their debut EP, Whiplash, Bossy Love's John Baillie Jnr tells us all about the Glasgow duo's favourite era of pop music and all the sampling goodness that came with it Read more »| 24 Jan 2019 -
Theatre
The Themes of manipulate 2019
Scotland's trailblazing festival of innovative visual theatre and animation returns, with performances from artists around the world. But with so many different art forms on show, what themes are tackled in this year's programme? Read more »| 24 Jan 2019 -
Music
Julia Kent – Temporal
Julia Kent's sixth solo effort is a stunningly meditative and expertly controlled album, making for a unique sonic experience Read more »| 24 Jan 2019 -
Music
Tim Presley’s White Fence – I Have to Feed Larry’s Hawk
Tim Presley's White Fence project takes on a new, more ambient and impressionistic – though not wholly unfamiliar – direction, spurred on by a move back to San Francisco and the spectre of addiction Read more »| 24 Jan 2019 -
MusicFucked Up @ The Deaf Institute, Manchester, 20 Jan
Off the back of releasing Dose Your Dreams last year, Fucked Up deliver one of the most diverse sets of their career tonight as they move beyond the blueprint of bruising hardcore punk Read more »| 24 Jan 2019 -
MusicAdrianne Lenker @ YES, Manchester, 17 Jan
Big Thief's frontwoman makes a compelling case for the position of her generation's most exciting songwriter in Manchester Read more »| 24 Jan 2019