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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Film
Huge Stanley Kubrick retrospective comes to Glasgow Film Theatre
This spring, the GFT will be crowning the great Stanley Kubrick their latest CineMaster with a season that includes nine of the American director’s features Read more »| 29 Mar 2019 -
Music
Ela Orleans introduces Movies for Ears
We catch up with Ela Orleans about finding inspiration in escaping reality and discuss her upcoming collection of work, Movies for Ears: An Introduction to Ela Orleans Read more »| 29 Mar 2019 -
Music
La Dispute – Panorama
Michigan post-hardcore band La Dispute are titans of their scene, but on Panorama they also prove to be lyricists of the highest calibre Read more »| 29 Mar 2019 -
Books
Damian Barr: "Fiction shows us other lives"
As his much-anticipated debut novel You Will Be Safe Here is published, Damian Barr discusses the empathy of reading, modern day masculinity and the history of colonial brutality Read more »| 29 Mar 2019 -
Theatre
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat @ Edinburgh Playhouse
The new revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Joseph is an exciting, energetic blast of colour, dance and action Read more »| 28 Mar 2019 -
Tv Radio
Fleabag: Series Two
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s anti-heroine is back with more angst and postmodern confessionalism. This series she has her eye on a cool priest, played with both smarm and charm by Andrew Scott Read more »| 28 Mar 2019
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Art
LeithLate is back for 2019
After a hiatus in 2018, multi-arts organisation LeithLate announces it will be returning in 2019 with a brand new ongoing events format Read more »| 28 Mar 2019 -
Music
The Internet @ SWG3, Glasgow, 22 Mar
Effortlessly cool, The Internet dazzle at SWG3 in Glasgow Read more »| 28 Mar 2019 -
Film
Derry Girls: Series 2
Lisa McGee’s sitcom set in Derry during the Troubles mines pointed humour from potential tragedy, and its rambunctious jokes fly so fast many are in danger of being lost to previous laughs Read more »| 27 Mar 2019 -
Music
Sleeper @ The Garage, Glasgow, 21 Mar
Tonight at The Garage, Sleeper prove that their brit-pop sound survives nicely outside of its 90s origins Read more »| 27 Mar 2019 -
Music
Deaf Havana @ SWG3, Glasgow, 21 Mar
Having toyed with variations on their style over their decade-long discography, Deaf Havana bring the best bits to SWG3 in Glasgow Read more »| 27 Mar 2019 -
Theatre
//BUZZCUT// Nightclubbing @ CCA, Glasgow
The latest programme of radical and experimental theatre from //BUZZCUT// is a thought-provoking look at social injustice Read more »| 27 Mar 2019 -
Books
Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman
Vastly and powerfully complicated, Summer Bird Blue is an immensely detailed portrayal of grief Read more »| 27 Mar 2019 -
Music
Jessica Pratt @ The Blue Arrow, Glasgow, 25 Mar
Enigmatic San Franciscan singer-songwriter Jessica Pratt faithfully conjures the strong silence of her latest album Quiet Signs Read more »| 26 Mar 2019 -
Music
C Duncan – Health
C Duncan takes a collaborative approach on his third album, creating a musical backdrop that's more dynamic than ever Read more »| 26 Mar 2019