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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FilmBogancloch
Ben Rivers returns to the Aberdeenshire wilderness for another film centred on Jake Williams, the reclusive subject of his 2011 poetic documentary Two Years at Sea. The result is a similarly haunting film brimming with transcendent imagery Read more »| 26 May 2025 -
TheatreScottish Theatre Highlights: June 2025
June brings a slate of urgent, relevant work to Scotland's theatres, speaking to our past and present precarity Read more »| 26 May 2025 -
FilmThe Ballad of Wallis Island
Edinburgh Fringe royalty Tim Key and Tom Basden turn their promising 2007 short into an intimate, bittersweet gem of a movie Read more »| 26 May 2025 -
BooksThe Möbius Book by Catherine Lacey
Two halves – fiction and nonfiction – make up Catherine Lacey's experimental and groundbreaking memoir without beginning or end Read more »| 23 May 2025 -
BooksThe Possession by Annie Ernaux
In her latest translated novella, Nobel Prize-winning author Annie Ernaux examines the fixations and addictions of jealousy Read more »| 23 May 2025 -
MusicSpotlight On... Quinie
Ahead of releasing their new album Forefowk, Mind Me, we catch up with Glasgow experimental folk artist Quinie Read more »| 22 May 2025
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MusicMalin Lewis on piping, songwriting, and their Queen's Hall gigs
Ahead of the second installment of their new gig series at The Queen's Hall, we catch up with award-winning composer and small pipes player Malin Lewis Read more »| 22 May 2025 -
FilmCastration Movie Anthology I: Traps
The first four and a half hours of Louise Weard’s towering two-parter is a triumph in no-budget filmmaking. Through her camcorder, the director has captured an anthology of gender troubles as textured and grainy as its central characters Read more »| 22 May 2025 -
MusicMogwai @ Barrowlands, Glasgow, 18 May
The second of two sold-out nights at the Barras for Mogwai feels like an homage to Glasgow and its people Read more »| 21 May 2025 -
MusicPixies @ Corn Exchange, Edinburgh, 14 May
Pixies return to the Scottish capital, as Edinburgh's Corn Exchange plays host to the alt icons Read more »| 20 May 2025 -
MusicThese New Puritans – Crooked Wing
Southend-on-Sea brothers These New Puritans return after six years, and they're still the rulers of their own murky hinterland Read more »| 20 May 2025 -
TheatreKELI @ Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh
Martin Green's KELI features some dazzling performances but feels overcrowded Read more »| 19 May 2025 -
TheatreWee Man @ The Studio, Edinburgh
Barrowland Ballet's Wee Man is a must-see for any man, and those who know them Read more »| 19 May 2025 -
BooksMuckle Flugga by Michael Pedersen
Muckle Flugga, the debut novel from Edinburgh Makar Michael Pedersen, is a work of simultaneous joy and grief Read more »| 19 May 2025 -
BooksBook matchmaking from Lighthouse Bookshop and Book Lovers
If you're pining for the start of First Date festival, we have some hyperspecific recommendations for all readers of romance from two of Edinburgh's most beloved bookshops Read more »| 15 May 2025