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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MusicSpotlight On... Maz and the Phantasms
Ahead of releasing their latest single Factory Hell, which they'll celebrate at their gig/club night Phantasmagasm III, we catch up with Maz from Maz and the Phantasms Read more »| 08 May 2025 -
ComedyTangents and Self-Sabotage with Tom Lawrinson
Best known for his off-the-wall online sketches, we chat to stand-up Tom Lawrinson about his debut tour show Read more »| 08 May 2025 -
ArtLinder Sterling's Alternative Aristocracy
Ahead of her first retrospective in Scotland, the feminist artist Linder Sterling reveals how she practises punk in a dead-end world Read more »| 08 May 2025 -
ClubsVape Flutes & iPad lutes: A pint with Proc Fiskal
Mashing medieval sounds and contemporary culture via Edinburgh, Scotland’s electronic bard Proc Fiskal is back with a fresh project. Before taking the six-tracker to stage, we sit down over a drink to discuss the music video served alongside his EP Read more »| 08 May 2025 -
MusicBank Street Media Labs: Glasgow's boundary-breaking art collective
We head along to Glasgow collective Bank Street Media Labs' latest live gig/exhibition to find out how they're breaking the rules of presenting music and art Read more »| 08 May 2025 -
MusicMannequin Pussy's Marisa 'Missy' Dubice on being unapologetic
With their righteous live shows, Mannequin Pussy create a space for people to experiment with being who they are. But this simple act of self-acceptance is becoming increasingly rebellious, as Marisa 'Missy' Dubice explains Read more »| 08 May 2025
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TheatreMonumental: The new show commemorating Edinburgh's invisible women
"We want people to feel the city differently after Monumental" – we take a look at F-Bomb's new feminist project Read more »| 06 May 2025 -
FilmEdinburgh Film Festival reveals 2025 opening film
The 2025 edition of Edinburgh International Film Festival will kick off with Sorry, Baby, the offbeat comedy-drama from director Eva Victor Read more »| 06 May 2025 -
FilmThe sins of streamers and the lost treasures of DVDs
As DVDs turn 30 this year, we lament their scarceness in 2025’s hostile streaming environment and the rich possibilities they held Read more »| 06 May 2025 -
MusicKara-Lis Coverdale – From Where You Came
The Canadian composer’s fourth album is a beautiful collection of ambient compositions that explore the interconnectedness of all things Read more »| 06 May 2025 -
Musicbilly woods – GOLLIWOG
Working with an array of collaborators with impressive cohesivity, on his latest album, billy woods reflects on race and class through surrealist, horror-inspired soundscapes Read more »| 06 May 2025 -
FilmKarim Aïnouz on Motel Destino
Motel Destino is a steamy neo-noir in which a young man hides out at a roadside motel, only to find more danger when he gets romantically entangled with the woman who manages the establishment with her volatile husband. Director Karim Aïnouz tells us more Read more »| 06 May 2025 -
FilmMotel Destino
Steamy Brazilian noir Motel Destino is at its best when exploring its characters' carnal desires, but gets tripped up by its loose plotting that can feel anticlimactic Read more »| 05 May 2025 -
BooksBabylon, Albion by Dalia Al-Dujaili
In her memoir Babylon, Albion, Dalia Al-Dujaili examines her personal and political relationship to the landscapes of her home and adopted countries Read more »| 05 May 2025 -
FilmRiefenstahl
Andres Veiel's collage digging into the life and legacy of Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl is a dense burrowing into the psyche of one of cinema’s most fractious figures Read more »| 05 May 2025