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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BooksScottish Book Trust unveils Journeys project
The Scottish Book Trust and National Theatre of Scotland have launched a call for submissions for Journeys, a new project exploring the various voyages, excu... Read more »| 25 Mar 2015 -
ComedyIain Stirling: Everything
Everything is a jangly show that never quite seems to start properly. Then again, this doesn't seem too much of a problem. Tonight, watching Iain S... Read more »| 25 Mar 2015 -
MusicK-X-P – III (Part One)
Falling somewhere between krautrock and techno, while also incorporating elements of free jazz and psychedelic rock, the beguiling output of Finland’s ... Read more »| 25 Mar 2015 -
MusicWaxahatchee – Ivy Tripp
It takes considerable talent to pull off sincere, confessional songwriting as favorably as Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield. Pairing raw anecdotes with ... Read more »| 25 Mar 2015 -
Music
Jane Weaver @ The Deaf Institute, Manchester, 21 March
To mark a celebratory evening at The Deaf Institute, Jane Weaver is dressed to impress. "Has anyone else got a Lorax onesie on tonight?" she jokes, showing o... Read more »| 24 Mar 2015 -
Music
worriedaboutsatan @ Gullivers, Manchester, 19 March
As worriedaboutsatan, Gavin Miller and Tom Ragsdale found their feet as one of the most productive and enduring partnerships in Manchester’s musical co... Read more »| 24 Mar 2015
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Film
BAFTA Scotland New Talent nominees announced
The shortlist for this year's British Academy Scotland New Talent Awards – the annual awards that aim to shine a spotlight on emerging talent from acro... Read more »| 24 Mar 2015 -
Music
Vessels / worriedaboutsatan @ Nice 'n' Sleazy, 17 March
Tonight Sleazy’s underground space holds more electronic items than your local PC World – cables, cords and pedals litter the stage and stan... Read more »| 24 Mar 2015 -
ArtRSA New Contemporaries 2015
A spectacle-laden opening. Deb Marshall’s sound installation Kairos I thunders over the tourist traffic of Princes St, while upon entry, Erin Fairley&r... Read more »| 24 Mar 2015 -
Music
Dead Meadow / The Cosmic Dead @ O2 ABC, Glasgow, 15 March
The Cosmic Dead are loud. Thick clumps of dense feedback fill the half-lit stage, with bass throbs so potent that it’s barely possible to hear much bey... Read more »| 24 Mar 2015 -
Music
The Soft Moon – Deeper
Once looking like an heir apparent to Trent Reznor's seething world of industrial dystopia, Luis Vasquez sadly finds himself starting to tread water on his t... Read more »| 24 Mar 2015 -
Comedy
My Glasgow: Marc Jennings
Comedian Marc Jennings has an unusual way to thwart muggers and plenty to say on new health trends in Glasgow – perhaps we should have titled his column My Clydebank. Read more »| 23 Mar 2015 -
Music
James Chance & Les Contortions @ Stereo, Glasgow, 12 March
The wraithlike James Chance walks on stage slowly, looking every one of his 61 years with possibly a few more in reserve. Eternally dapper, a casual stride a... Read more »| 23 Mar 2015 -
Film
Rollerball
Forty years on from its release, there's no doubt that Rollerball feels like a prescient film. It's set in a world run by corporations and its use of a viole... Read more »| 23 Mar 2015 -
Comedy
My Glasgow: Ally Houston
Ally Houston brings his debut show and clown alter-ego Shandy to Glasgow International Comedy Festival. In his My Glasgow column, he recalls growing-up posh in the city. Read more »| 21 Mar 2015