Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
-
MusicCold War Kids – New Age Norms 1
Beyond the sweet melodies and striking instrumentals, New Age Norms 1 is a project with a message Read more »| 11 Nov 2019 -
ArtNational Galleries Scotland dump BP exhibition
National Galleries Scotland announced that this will be the last time the BP Portrait Award will be hosted at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, citing BP's contribution to the current climate emergency as the reason for cutting ties Read more »| 11 Nov 2019 -
MusicVampire Weekend @ Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 7 Nov
Ezra Koenig and co deliver a two-hour set that manages to be exactly as polished as you'd expect Read more »| 11 Nov 2019 -
MusicThe Art School closure: the story so far
Glasgow loses another of its key venues with the Art School union announcing it's closed to the public until at least 2020 Read more »| 11 Nov 2019 -
TheatreStill No Idea @ Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Lisa Hammond and Rachael Spence tackle public and media attitudes to disability in the arts with a mixture of humour and brutal honesty Read more »| 11 Nov 2019 -
MusicOptimo, Night School and Green Door on Free Love
We speak to three people who have helped shape Free Love's career from their formation through their days as Happy Meals to their reinvention as Free Love Read more »| 11 Nov 2019
-
ArtArika Episode 10: Experimental Science, Radical Politics
Cutting-edge maths and physics is paralleled with experiences of Black, POC, Queer, Trans and Indigenous communities in Arika's latest programme in Glasgow Read more »| 11 Nov 2019 -
FilmGlasgow Film Festival lines up dystopian sci-fi retrospective
Glasgow Film Festival unveil a free retrospective of dystopian cinema, and a showcase of Icelandic cinema, for their 2020 edition Read more »| 11 Nov 2019 -
Tv RadioThe End of the F***ing World: Series 2
This sequel to James (Alex Lawther) and Alyssa (Jessica Barden)'s adventures has morphed into a different, less anarchic and explosive experience – but it is richer for it Read more »| 08 Nov 2019 -
MusicCloth's Rachael and Paul Swinton on their self-titled debut
Twins and close collaborators Rachael and Paul Swinton discuss the stark, elegant and haunting debut record from their band, Cloth Read more »| 08 Nov 2019 -
FilmThe Report
Adam Driver is typically brilliant in this impressively mounted dramatisation of the US Senate’s investigation into torture conducted during the War on Terror Read more »| 08 Nov 2019 -
ArtLocal Heroes: Jewellery in Scotland
We take a look at Scotland’s flourishing independent jewellery design scene with a focus on five new makers based in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Fife Read more »| 08 Nov 2019 -
ArtDundee Zine Fest, Good Press, and Scotland's Zine Scene
Ahead of this weekend's Dundee Zine Fest, we take the temperature of Scotland's zine scene Read more »| 08 Nov 2019 -
ComedyICYMI: Richard Brown on Ellen DeGeneres
Chunks maestro and pitch-dark stand-up Richard Brown watches Ellen DeGeneres' latest stand-up special, Relatable Read more »| 08 Nov 2019 -
MusicYoung Guv – GUV I and GUV II
Fucked Up's Ben Cook explores a different musical direction with his solo project Young Guv, as demonstrated on his two-part project Guv I and Guv II Read more »| 07 Nov 2019