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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TheatreVaulted Ambition: 15 years of Bard in the Botanics
The ambitious Kirk Bage discusses the possibility of performing in all 38 Shakespeare plays, and why he and audiences alike keep returning to Glasgow's Bard in the Botanics year in and year out. Read more »| 06 Jun 2016 -
ArtSol Calero @ David Dale Gallery
It's all about the soap opera in David Dale, with an immersive and colourful set forming the backdrop for a new work by South American artist Sol Calero Read more »| 06 Jun 2016 -
Theatre
Donald Robertson is Not a Stand-Up Comedian
Small, but packing a powerful punch, Gary McNair’s ode to comedy, Donald Robertson is Not a Stand-Up Comedian, is the perfect blend of theatre and farc... Read more »| 06 Jun 2016 -
TheatreThe Mikado @ Theatre Royal, 14 May
Scottish Opera's co-production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado with D’Oyly Carte has all the bite and humour of the original piece ... Read more »| 06 Jun 2016 -
ComedyCrystal Baws: June 2016 Horoscopes
Mystic Mark is back with his June predictions Read more »| 06 Jun 2016 -
Music
Evolve or Die: Parquet Courts interviewed
After ambitious experiments and "vitriolic" reviews, Parquet Courts aren't about your approval. Austin Brown tells The Skinny about the band's push for progress. Read more »| 06 Jun 2016
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Music
Down the Front: Bruce Springsteen returns to Hampden
Under a blistering sun, The Boss took the Hampden hordes on a characteristically epic nostalgia tour of his 1980 blue collar rock opus The River this pa... Read more »| 03 Jun 2016 -
Books
Poetry News – Scotland, June 2016
This month we speak to Jenny Lindsay about the end of Skinny favourite Rally & Broad, and the projects to rise from its ashes, before looking at the work of comedy-poet-libertine Mark Waddell Read more »| 03 Jun 2016 -
Comedy
Let’s talk about sex, with comedian Sara Pascoe
Sara Pascoe picked up an Edinburgh Comedy Award nomination in 2014 for a show themed on sexual evolutionary history. Now she's written a book on the same theme Read more »| 03 Jun 2016 -
Clubs
Kickflip Mike DJ Mix – Skinned #14
Bushy-tailed Berliner Joschka Seibt, aka Kickflip Mike, steps up for our mix series ahead of a new EP and date at Gottwood – hot stuff all round Read more »| 03 Jun 2016 -
Music
Raised by Wolves: Introducing Kaspar Hauser
When is a goth band not a goth band? We meet Glasgow’s Kaspar Hauser in an attempt to find out. Read more »| 03 Jun 2016 -
Clubs
Scottish Clubbing Highlights – June 2016
Green Velvet in Glasgow, Andy Weatherall in Edinburgh... and that's before we get to Summer Skank Out in Dundee – another busy month for your clubbing calendar. Read more »| 03 Jun 2016 -
Music
Kindness on Missy Elliott and Jay Sean
Before Kindness – aka producer, musician and collaborator extraordinaire Adam Bainbridge – returns to the UK for a string of DJ dates, he hits shuffle on his arsenal and talks us through the first ten tracks, Missy Elliott trilogy and all. Read more »| 03 Jun 2016 -
Music
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds resurface with Skeleton Tree
Last seen with 2013's majestic Push the Sky Away and subsequent documentary 20,000 Days on Earth, Aussie legends Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will releas... Read more »| 02 Jun 2016 -
Music
Recall of the Wild: Wolf Parade return
As Wolf Parade return from hiatus with a new EP and their first live shows in five years, Dan Boeckner gives us the lowdown on reunions, ghost-hunting and im... Read more »| 02 Jun 2016