Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
-
ArtPersonal is Political: RSA New Contemporaries 2020
The Royal Scottish Academy's selection of the most recent art graduates returns, including some timely works from emerging artists keen to confront social issues and political tumult Read more »| 07 Feb 2020 -
ClubsB2B: Aquarian x Sougwen Chung
With his debut album due for release this month, we asked DJ and producer Aquarian to discuss the making of the album and his collaboration with artist and researcher Sougwen Chung Read more »| 07 Feb 2020 -
FilmScott Graham & the cast on Scottish small-town drama Run
Shell and Iona director Scott Graham returns with third feature Run. Sitting down with The Skinny and some of the film's cast, Graham tells us how his tale was inspired by a visit to his hometown and the story of a Bruce Springsteen obsessed fisherman Read more »| 07 Feb 2020 -
MusicNada Surf – Never Not Together
It's business as usual for Nada Surf on their ninth studio album, Never Not Together Read more »| 06 Feb 2020 -
MusicLa Roux – Supervision
Elly Jackson's third studio album Supervision sorely fails to live up to the standard of her previous records Read more »| 06 Feb 2020 -
TheatreWorkers Theatre on Something Has to Happen Festival
We catch up with the folk from The Workers Theatre about radical art, how a theatre cooperative works and why their upcoming festival – Something Has To Happen – couldn't be more timely Read more »| 06 Feb 2020
-
Tv RadioBojack Horseman: Season 6, Part 2
Bojack Horseman sends off its central characters almost too neatly, but its tone is near-perfect: the choice to continue living, trying, failing, and starting over is conveyed with cynicism, humour, and hope Read more »| 06 Feb 2020 -
MusicShopping – All or Nothing
Shopping add an electronic edge to their post-punk sound, offering a soundtrack for the frustrating times we live in Read more »| 06 Feb 2020 -
BooksA Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes
Blending fantasy and history, A Tall History of Sugar is an epic, generation-spanning novel set in newly independent Jamaica Read more »| 06 Feb 2020 -
Tv RadioGrow Up: The Evolution of Coming-of-Age TV
Season two of Netflix’s Sex Education marks how far coming-of-age television series have come Read more »| 05 Feb 2020 -
MusicFatoumata Diawara @ Tramway, Glasgow, 31 Jan
On the last evening of January, Fatoumata Diawara and co provide some much-needed musical catharsis Read more »| 05 Feb 2020 -
MusicPenelope Isles @ Gullivers, Manchester, 30 Jan
Although there could be a bit more showmanship on stage from Penelope Isles, you can’t help but thrill at the prospect of what they’re going to do next Read more »| 05 Feb 2020 -
MusicThe Ninth Wave @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 31 Jan
A double dose of Glasgow bands, The Ninth Wave and Savage Mansion, elevate their debut albums for a knockout live show at Summerhall Read more »| 05 Feb 2020 -
TheatrePride and Prejudice* (*sort of) @ Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh
A memorable and proudly feminist retelling of the novel, with plenty of in-jokes that Jane Austen aficionados will appreciate Read more »| 05 Feb 2020 -
MusicScottish Gig Highlights: February 2020
Our round-up of the month ahead in Scotland's venues Read more »| 05 Feb 2020