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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MusicFreakender and Pop Mutations on their 2022 festivals
With both the Freakender and Pop Mutations festivals looming large on the Glasgow cultural horizon, we catch up with one of the organisers of both to find out more Read more »| 07 Sep 2022 -
MusicPITCH Scotland 2022: The Report
PITCH Scotland have achieved an impressive amount in a short space of time and it’s clear they’re only just getting started Read more »| 07 Sep 2022 -
ArtLocal Heroes: Donna Wilson introduces the Knit Shop
Local Heroes talk to Donna Wilson as her long-anticipated micro-factory Knit Shop opens its doors in Dundee this month Read more »| 06 Sep 2022 -
MusicSampa the Great – As Above, So Below
Sampa the Great returns with As Above, So Below, and it is a force, with Sampa's ability to play hard and soft the driving core of the album Read more »| 06 Sep 2022 -
MusicHigh Vis – Blending
Reflecting the increasingly uncertain times currently faced in the UK, Blending is a record that is simultaneously angry and euphoric Read more »| 06 Sep 2022 -
MusicThe Spirit of Jazz: SNJO's 2022/23 season
We speak with Tommy Smith, Founder and Director of the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, to find out more about their forthcoming 2022/23 season Read more »| 06 Sep 2022
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BooksTi Amo by Hanne Ørstavik
Ti Amo's protagonist must find intimacy and longing in the mundane everyday, when she learns the love of her life has less than a year to live Read more »| 06 Sep 2022 -
MusicJockstrap on their debut album, I Love You Jennifer B
We chat to Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye from Jockstrap to find out more about their electrifying debut album, I Love You Jennifer B Read more »| 06 Sep 2022 -
ArtWalker and Bromwich's Serpent of Capitalism
Walker and Bromwich's exhibition in Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Serpent of Capitalism, invites audiences to consider capitalism and its alternatives Read more »| 05 Sep 2022 -
ArtAshanti Harris, Dancing a Peripheral Quadrille, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
Beth James responds to Ashanti Harris' exhibition Dancing a Peripheral Quadrille, in this piece commissioned as part of Edinburgh Art Festival's Emerging Writers programme Read more »| 05 Sep 2022 -
FilmEIFF 2022: The Score
The Score is a musical but only by definition. From Johnny Flynn's suitably humble soundtrack to the humdrum roadside cafe setting, it swaps Hollywood glamour for a subdued sweetness Read more »| 05 Sep 2022 -
MusicSantigold – Spirituals
Santigold is back and ready to shake things up with a sharp left turn into darkness and mysticism Read more »| 05 Sep 2022 -
FilmVenice Film Festival 2022: Athena
Romain Gavras’ bravura third feature, Athena, is an incendiary exploration of police brutality in the Paris banlieues Read more »| 05 Sep 2022 -
MusicJockstrap – I Love You Jennifer B
After a collection of cult EPs, Jockstrap fully reveal their complex and creative identity on I Love You Jennifer B Read more »| 05 Sep 2022 -
FilmBones and All
Luca Guadagnino reteams with his Call Me By Your Name star Timothée Chalamet for a coming-of-age love story about two cannibalistic teens. Despite its YA tropes, it's a film rich in bruised longing and queer desires Read more »| 02 Sep 2022