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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MusicHannah Jadagu – Aperture
Jadagu's captivatingly atmospheric debut brings contemporary flair to age-old themes of love, loss and longing Read more »| 17 May 2023 -
MusicThe Skinny On... AMUNDA
Singer, songwriter and pop producer extraordinaire, Amandah Wilkinson, aka AMUNDA, takes on this month's Q&A, and accidentally lets us in on more than one secret Read more »| 17 May 2023 -
FilmAlchemy Film & Moving Image Festival: 2023 Report
We look back at the highlights from the thirteenth edition of Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, where community filmmaking shone brightly. Other highlights include a celebration of the UK's most prolific actor and a haunting portrait of teens run amok Read more »| 16 May 2023 -
ArtThe Joy of the Impossibile: Soorin Shin's 3D printing
Glasgow’s Soorin Shin explores the ambiguous border between the digital and the physical worlds, creating objects using 3D-printed recycled plastic that interrogate our relationship between technology and nature Read more »| 16 May 2023 -
MusicMega Bog – End of Everything
Mega Bog brings some new wave sparkle to the end of days Read more »| 16 May 2023 -
MusicEyes of Others – Eyes of Others
Like memories from a night out, Eyes of Others is a fug of ticking drum machines, acid basslines, dub-style synth stabs and warped delay Read more »| 16 May 2023
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ComedyA Long Time Coming: Josie Long on her debut book
Award-winning comedian and mum of two Josie Long is now an author. She talks to us from halfway across the world about her debut book, Because I Don’t Know What You Mean and What You Don’t Read more »| 15 May 2023 -
MusicSleep Token – Take Me Back To Eden
The final part of a trilogy of albums by masked London collective Sleep Token is an hour-long genre odyssey of epic proportions Read more »| 15 May 2023 -
Musicbar italia – Tracey Denim
The air of mystery that once surrounded bar italia might have evaporated, but with songs like these, they were never going to stay a secret for long Read more »| 15 May 2023 -
MusicBC Camplight – The Last Rotation of Earth
With The Last Rotation of Earth, Brian Christinzio has made his heartbreak record – the results are masterful Read more »| 11 May 2023 -
FilmPop(corn) Art: 20 Artful 21st Century Blockbusters
Popular films don't need to be brainless or unambitious. To mark our pop issue, here are 20 artful blockbusters from the 21st century that pushed the envelope, delivering inventive filmmaking and thought-provoking ideas alongside their popcorn thrills Read more »| 11 May 2023 -
MusicLucy Liyou – Dog Dreams (개꿈)
Lucy Liyou continues their ascent with Dog Dreams, an often beautiful record of evocative transformation Read more »| 11 May 2023 -
ArtAncestral Meditations: Alberta Whittle interview
Alberta Whittle's create dangerously celebrates a vital and visionary artist whose expansive and generous practice shines a light on some of the most urgent issues of our time Read more »| 11 May 2023 -
ComedyDream Gig: Alasdair Beckett-King
Stellar stand-up and online sensation Alasdair Beckett-King takes us to England's Home of Mystery for this month's Dream Gig column Read more »| 10 May 2023 -
MusicBC Camplight on new album The Last Rotation of Earth
Ahead of the biggest release of his career, we catch up with Manchester-based alt-pop act BC Camplight to talk about creating art out of personal turmoil Read more »| 10 May 2023