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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Music
Sigrid – Sucker Punch
By the end of Sucker Punch, on her long-awaited debut album Sigrid has more than earned her moment, and hopefully many more to come Read more »| 11 Mar 2019 -
Music
Family Values: Stillhound on their new album
As Edinburgh three-piece Stillhound prepare to release their new self-titled album, they tell us their remarkable tales of early fame, musical reincarnation and the lows of dashed dreams Read more »| 11 Mar 2019 -
Theatre
Future Facing: National Theatre of Scotland's Interference
The National Theatre of Scotland puts sci-fi on stage in a new trilogy of plays set in the near-future. The Skinny heads to their canal-side HQ to discuss robots, ethics, virtual universes and the future of the human race – no biggie Read more »| 11 Mar 2019 -
Comedy
Fringe Dog's Glasgow Comedy Festival guide
Fringe Dog runs away from home to give us a guide to Glasgow International Comedy Festival Read more »| 11 Mar 2019 -
Film
Minding the Gap
Bing Liu's 12-year-spanning Minding the Gap is both a great skating doc and a moving portrait of how toxic masculinity can manifest in destructive ways Read more »| 11 Mar 2019 -
Film
Guy Maddin on skew-whiff Vertigo remake The Green Fog
The endlessly inventive Guy Maddin has crafted a skew-whiff remake of Vertigo from clips of films set in San Francisco. The result is both loving homage and sly critique, and the Canadian director cheekily suggests he's improved on Hitchcock's original Read more »| 11 Mar 2019
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Art
Making Ground @ Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
The three artists in the Embassy group show Making Ground each deal with the persistence of the physical and social violence of colonialism Read more »| 11 Mar 2019 -
Music
Meat Puppets – Dusty Notes
Back with their original line-up, Meat Puppet fans can rest assured that Dusty Notes is a bona fide treat to match Bob Mould’s Sunshine Rock in the renaissance stakes Read more »| 11 Mar 2019 -
Art
DCA at 20: A Timeline
This month marks the 20th birthday of one of Scotland’s most-beloved cultural spaces, Dundee Contemporary Arts. To mark the occasion we’ve taken a look through their archive to pick out some of the key events of the last two decades Read more »| 10 Mar 2019 -
Film
True/False 2019: Knock Down the House
Rachel Lears' documentary follows four women running for Congress in the midterm elections of 2018, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Read more »| 09 Mar 2019 -
Film
The Best Film Events in Scotland in March
The big screen movie happenings you should make time for this month, from Glasgow Short Film Festival to the Cameo's new All Night Cult Movie Experience Read more »| 08 Mar 2019 -
Music
Villagers @ Manchester Cathedral, 1 Mar
Celebrating the success of 2018's The Art of Pretending to Swim, Villagers play a stunning show to a sold-out Manchester Cathedral Read more »| 08 Mar 2019 -
Music
Brix and the Extricated @ Beat Generator, Dundee, 2 Mar
Brix and the Extricated play a plethora of tracks from their post-punk repertoire and throw in a cover of The Fall's Totally Wired for good measure, ensuring no one goes home disappointed Read more »| 08 Mar 2019 -
Music
Dido – Still On My Mind
Still On My Mind sees Dido experiment with pop to dance to electronica in her most engaging album to date Read more »| 08 Mar 2019 -
Film
Captain Marvel
Captain Marvel veers from confusing space opera, to fun buddy movie, back to boring Marvel action extravaganza, but Brie Larson's wise-cracking and a killer 90s soundtrack keep this latest MCU film watchable Read more »| 08 Mar 2019