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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MusicFuture Islands / Dope Body / Du Blonde @ Glasgow Barrowlands, 9 September
It would take a formidable soul indeed to upstage a leading man as uniquely theatrical as Samuel T Herring, but tonight Future Islands' comrades are rising t... Read more »| 15 Sep 2015 -
Music
Warpaint’s Jenny Lee Lindberg announces solo album
Warpaint bassist Jenny Lee Lindberg will release her debut solo album as jennylee in December Read more »| 15 Sep 2015 -
Music
Get to Know... Weirds
Meet Weirds, hypnotic psych-rockers from Leeds who will be playing at The Deaf Institute, Manchester on 25 Sep in a special gig supported by The Skinny Read more »| 15 Sep 2015 -
ArtCreative Edinburgh Awards nominations open
Nominations are now open for the 2015 Creative Edinburgh Awards, honouring the best of the city's creative talent. Read more »| 15 Sep 2015 -
MusicDarkstar – Foam Island
The cold landscapes of Darkstar’s work have always been permeated with glimmers of humanity. James Buttery’s vocals on North flickered like snatc... Read more »| 15 Sep 2015 -
Music
Starred Up Reworked: Track Premiere
Listen to 'Credit', the closing track from the reworked soundtrack to David Mackenzie's BAFTA Scotland-winning film Starred Up, due for a vinyl release this November Read more »| 15 Sep 2015
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Art
This Week in Scottish Art: Embassy, DJCAD & more
This week, there's a photocopier in CCA, books from the most well-known artists of the 20th century at Dundee's art college, and openings for exciting shows at Embassy, David Dale and Telfer Gallery. Read more »| 15 Sep 2015 -
Art
Tied Too Neatly: Tadeusz Kantor @ Summerhall
Summerhall don't show the requisite sensitivity in a recent exhibition of Taduesz Kantor Read more »| 15 Sep 2015 -
Theatre
Introducing Royal Exchange’s Company of Elders
Theatre can be empowering – whatever your age. We meet Brenda Hickey, who found a new lease of life after retirement when she joined the Royal Exchange’s Company of Elders Read more »| 14 Sep 2015 -
ArtThe Skinny Showcase: Ant Hamlyn
Ant Hamlyn explores the performance of viewing through technological encounters with sculptural objects. Read more »| 13 Sep 2015 -
Art
The Skinny Showcase: Laura Porteous
Spatial understanding and representation is the main concept behind the work of Laura Porteous. Read more »| 12 Sep 2015 -
Theatre
Arthur Miller: Rapture Theatre on his centenary
Michael Emans talks about Arthur Miller's centenary and how Rapture Theatre chose to honour it this autumn Read more »| 11 Sep 2015 -
Music
Foo Fighters @ Murrayfield, Edinburgh, 8 September
“We might do some stupid shit now and again," Dave Grohl confesses of that onstage tumble in Gothenburg, the broken leg and subsequent three month dela... Read more »| 11 Sep 2015 -
MusicTame Impala @ Barrowland, Glasgow, 8 September
A sold-out Barrowland crowd will rarely disappoint, but the barrier-pushing, clamouring audience on Tuesday night is declared “best of the tour” ... Read more »| 11 Sep 2015 -
Music
Stream Ought's new album Sun Coming Down
Listen to Sun Coming Down, the new album from Montreal post-punks Ought, ahead of its release next week Read more »| 11 Sep 2015