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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ArtPatrick Staff @ Dundee Contemporary Arts
From this unlikely starting point of 19th century play The Prince of Homberg, Patrick Staff's intelligent and original body of work engages a conversation on contemporary queer and trans identities Read more »| 07 Aug 2019 -
MusicSlipknot – We Are Not Your Kind
Slipknot return with an album as heavy as ever, but with a whole load of craftsmanship behind the distortion Read more »| 07 Aug 2019 -
MusicSuede @ Kelvingrove Bandstand, Glasgow, 31 Jul
Suede prove that you're never too old to jump up and down and forget about the outside world for a couple of hours, even if it is pissing it down Read more »| 06 Aug 2019 -
MusicFather John Misty @ Kelvingrove Bandstand, Glasgow, 2 Aug
On the back of last year's God’s Favorite Customer, Father John Misty returns to Scotland with a delightfully romantic show at Glasgow's Kelvingrove Bandstand Read more »| 06 Aug 2019 -
FilmDomino
Domino has been cut to shreds, but still contains a few set pieces that make it worth your time. Release the De Palma cut! Read more »| 06 Aug 2019 -
FilmKen Loach's new film to close Take One Action 2019
Take One Action 2019 will close with Sorry We Missed You, the latest film from Ken Loach, and will open with Push, a doc concerned with the worldwide crisis in affordable housing Read more »| 02 Aug 2019
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MusicRachel Sermanni on new album So It Turns
The acclaimed Scottish folk singer discusses her forthcoming record, pregnancy, desire and transformative decisions Read more »| 02 Aug 2019 -
MusicJade Imagine – Basic Love
In spite of the banalities of life cloying at their backs, Basic Love sees Jade Imagine endearingly leap for the light Read more »| 02 Aug 2019 -
FilmGurinder Chadha and Sarfraz Manzoor on Blinded by the Light
Fancy a Bruce Springsteen musical set in [check notes]...Luton? Director Gurinder Chadha and writer Sarfraz Manzoor tell us how they convinced the Boss to lend his all-American songbook to their film about a Muslim teen coming-of-age in Thatcher's Britain Read more »| 02 Aug 2019 -
MusicTy Segall – First Taste
The prolific Ty Segall returns with First Taste, his first album in a while with a unified sonic vision Read more »| 02 Aug 2019 -
MusicMabel – High Expectations
Despite some over-zealous attempts to crack the Top 40, Mabel's debut album High Expectations is a well-rounded pop record Read more »| 02 Aug 2019 -
MusicJenny Lewis @ Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 27 Jul
Projecting a mixture of fearlessness and vulnerability, Jenny Lewis thrills a Saturday night crowd in the capital Read more »| 01 Aug 2019 -
MusicJosh Ritter @ Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, 25 Jul
Josh Ritter is in a celebratory mood, sharing songs from Fever Breaks in the city he studied in two decades ago Read more »| 01 Aug 2019 -
FilmThe Best Film Events in Scotland in August
The Scottish film events you should make time for this month; from a Spike Lee season to some eccentric cinema at Matchbox Cineclub's Weird Weekend Read more »| 01 Aug 2019 -
BooksSarong Party Girls by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
Sarong Party Girls is a delectably vulgar look at the racism, sexism and classism in the upper echelons of Singaporean society Read more »| 01 Aug 2019