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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MusicSun Ra Arkestra @ Band on the Wall, Manchester, 2 Apr
With their sequin-ridden costumes winking under the lights, the thoroughly seasoned Sun Ra Arkestra file onstage with an air of immense calm, shortly before ... Read more »| 05 Apr 2017 -
Film
What to Watch this Week (3-10 Apr)
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including the college cannibalism movie Raw, new Terence Davies joint A Quiet Passion and Netflix teen tragedy 13 Reasons Why Read more »| 05 Apr 2017 -
TheatreAsk Auntie Trash: This Review is Bad
Our theatrical agony aunt takes on the thorny topic of negative reviews, and what to do about them Read more »| 04 Apr 2017 -
MusicScottish Gigs of the Week: 4-10 April
This week's Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee gig guide, featuring The Ninth Wave, Counterflows Festival and visits from Stormzy, British Sea Power and Pulled Apart by Horses Read more »| 04 Apr 2017 -
Art
Engine House launch Mystery Tubes Islington Mill project
The Engine House collective are launching a special Mystery Tubes art project raising money for Islington Mill, with a vending machine and accompanying art exhibition at Fred Aldous this April. Read more »| 04 Apr 2017 -
MusicJohnny Flynn @ La Belle Angèle, Edinburgh, 27 Mar
Spring may have only just sprung, but it is HOT in La Belle Angèle this evening. Even before the support had finished, the tropical punch that is... Read more »| 04 Apr 2017
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Music
Feature – Banishing Ritual
There’ll come a point during Feature’s debut album where you’ll pause for breath and realise what an amazing time you’re having. Mayb... Read more »| 04 Apr 2017 -
MusicJens Lekman @ Saint Luke's, Glasgow, 1 Apr
The hushed, melancholic tones of The Dove & The Wolf, along with the sparse decoration of the refurbished church, make for an interesting mood between se... Read more »| 04 Apr 2017 -
Music
CHUMP @ The Safari Lounge, Edinburgh, 30 Mar
Opening the night among the potted plants and fairy lights of Edinburgh's Safari Lounge, Tongue Trap provide a shot of pop-punk as the cosy basement room beg... Read more »| 04 Apr 2017 -
Film
Raoul Peck on I Am Not Your Negro & James Baldwin
Ahead of the UK release of I Am Not Your Negro, the extraordinary doc on writer and activist James Baldwin, we speak to director Raoul Peck about Baldwin's enduring relevance, experimenting with documentary form and the troubling rise of ignorance Read more »| 04 Apr 2017 -
Art
This Week in Scottish Art: 4-10 April
This weekly starts with anti-Trump screenings before another bumper weekend of openings from Telfer Gallery, Generator Projects, Tramway, Pipe Factory as well as plenty more events and exhibitions to see through the week. Read more »| 04 Apr 2017 -
Film
Pablo Larraín rethinks the biopic with Neruda
Following the Natalie Portman-starring Jackie, mercurial Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín has another left-field take on a national icon with Neruda Read more »| 03 Apr 2017 -
Books
Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez
Buenos Aires: a city of ghoulish children with sharpened teeth and murdered teens who return from beneath dark waters. A city of women who see self-imm... Read more »| 03 Apr 2017 -
Music
Jesca Hoop @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, 28 Mar
If there’s one thing you can count on with a Jesca Hoop record, it’s to expect the unexpected. A songwriter who clearly loves to bend the 'rules'... Read more »| 03 Apr 2017 -
Music
The Lemon Twigs @ Gorilla, Manchester, 28 Mar
It’s a bold move starting your show with your most recent single when you only have one album to showcase. And herein lies the confidence of New York&r... Read more »| 03 Apr 2017