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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MusicThe Skinny's Top 50 Albums of 2018
After another barnstorming year for new music, our dedicated music team have selected their favourite 50 albums of the year Read more »| 05 Dec 2018 -
MusicAidan Moffat & RM Hubbert – Ghost Stories for Christmas
Aidan Moffat and RM Hubbert enter the festive fray on formidable form with a sobering and intoxicating Christmas album Read more »| 05 Dec 2018 -
MusicEurosonic Noorderslag 2019 announces final line-up
Joining Free Love, Pip Blom, Boy Azooga and Flohio, the final 20 acts for the 2019 edition of The Netherland's Eurosonic Noorderslag festival have been announced Read more »| 04 Dec 2018 -
Music
Unknown Mortal Orchestra @ SWG3, Glasgow, 26 Nov
Unknown Mortal Orchestra's vibrant set at SWG3 sees the band go Super Saiyan, for better and worse Read more »| 04 Dec 2018 -
Music
Gigs in Glasgow and Edinburgh: 4-10 Dec
As December gets well and truly underway, Christmas parties are starting to take place across the country with festive gigs this week in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen Read more »| 04 Dec 2018 -
Theatre
Life is a Dream @ Edinburgh Festival Theatre
Rambert's re-imagining of a 400 year-old play blurs themes of fantasy and reality, but ultimately lacks empathy. Read more »| 04 Dec 2018
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Clubs
Slam on their experimental new album Athenæum 101
We speak to Stuart McMillan – one half of Glasgow techno mainstays Slam – about the duo's new experimental album, Athenæum 101 Read more »| 04 Dec 2018 -
Music
Julia Jacklin @ YES, Manchester, 28 Nov
Sydney's premier purveyor of lovelorn confessionals plays a low-key basement show as she gears up for a huge 2019 Read more »| 04 Dec 2018 -
Music
Jacuzzi General – Dreams of the Tropics EP
While there may be a few seemingly unpolished moments, Jacuzzi General’s first EP is immediately engaging, a kaleidoscopic voyage into multi-faceted electronica that’s both relaxing and danceable Read more »| 04 Dec 2018 -
Music
Indi – Precipice
Precipice is an impressive foundation for an artist seemingly unafraid to try to break her own musical boundaries Read more »| 04 Dec 2018 -
Art
Local Heroes: A Very Contemporary Christmas
The concept for A Very Contemporary Christmas is very simple. Best friends Jenny Hazel and Stacey Hunter drew up a wish list of what they’d like for Christmas and turned it into a shop Read more »| 04 Dec 2018 -
Music
Julia Holter on making art in a chaotic world
Ahead of her appearance at Edinburgh's Summerhall this month, we speak to Julia Holter about her latest album Aviary and why she finds explaining the message of her music so difficult Read more »| 04 Dec 2018 -
BooksOne More Chance by Lucy Ayrton
A story of prison life that shirks the stereotypes, Lucy Ayrton's One More Chance is at once funny, bleak and gripping Read more »| 04 Dec 2018 -
Music
The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships is a considered, ambitious album from a band who are constantly pushing themselves Read more »| 03 Dec 2018 -
TheatreWendy and Peter Pan @ Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
The Lyceum's spectacular Christmas show is an enchanting, magical, funny, empowering production that is not to be missed Read more »| 03 Dec 2018