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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Clubs
B2B: Nightwave x Nathan Fake
Ahead of both their sets at Kelburn Garden Party, close friends Nightwave and Nathan Fake have a B2B chat about their respective musical careers Read more »| 24 Jun 2019 -
Art
Fiona Tan @ GoMA, Glasgow
Fiona Tan returns to the Gallery of Modern Art with her acclaimed video installation on the legacies of historical colonialism in Asia and the Middle East, and the exoticisation of these regions Read more »| 24 Jun 2019 -
Theatre
How can the Edinburgh Fringe become more Accessible?
The second instalment of our Fairer Fringe series looks at how accessible Edinburgh's Festival Fringe is for audiences with disabilities Read more »| 24 Jun 2019 -
Film
Varda by Agnès
The final film from French New Wave pioneer Agnès Varda is touching, but there's little new to be gleaned from it Read more »| 22 Jun 2019 -
Music
Billy Corgan @ Saint Luke's, Glasgow, 17 Jun
The Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan debuts new solo music and shares personal monologues in a beautifully intimate performance of three parts Read more »| 21 Jun 2019 -
Music
Home is where the record player is
To help celebrate World Music Day, musician and promoter Bart Owl explores the importance of music; how it's always helping to develop new connections and new memories Read more »| 21 Jun 2019
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Music
Foals @ SWG3, Glasgow, 18 Jun
Despite stage banter fraught with cheesy one-liners, Foals prove they've still got it with their 17-strong setlist taking in highlights across their back catalogue Read more »| 21 Jun 2019 -
Tv Radio
Stranger Things 3 release epic, action-packed trailer
Things get very Jurassic Park in the latest trailer for the much-anticipated third season of 80s-set sci-fi show Stranger Things Read more »| 21 Jun 2019 -
Film
Harry Wootliff and stars on Glasgow drama Only You
Glasgow plays a pivotal role in the new romantic drama Only You, which follows a couple from a New Year's Eve hookup to the trials of conceiving a baby. We speak to director Harry Wootliff and stars Laia Costa and Josh O’Connor about the film Read more »| 21 Jun 2019 -
Film
Gwen
A gritty performance by Maxine Peake and richly bleak photography by Adam Etherington are more than enough to recommend folk horror Gwen Read more »| 21 Jun 2019 -
Books
Universal stories: Scotland's translation boom
With Highlands-based publisher Sandstone Press winning the world's largest prize for literature in translation, Laura Waddell takes a dive into Scotland's success in the world of translation Read more »| 21 Jun 2019 -
Film
Angus Macfadyen on Robert the Bruce
You wait years for a Robert the Bruce film... and then two come along at once. Hot on the heels of Outlaw King, Angus Macfadyen reprises the role he played in Braveheart and tells us why he felt compelled to write an anti-war version of the Bruce legend Read more »| 21 Jun 2019 -
Film
Hurt by Paradise
Female friendship is at the heart of Greta Bellamacina's debut feature, although she sometimes lets her visual style get in the way of her charismatic characters Read more »| 20 Jun 2019 -
Comedy
James Acaster @ Sands Centre, Carlisle
Everyone loves a bad boy. We're just surprised that James Acaster now qualifies as one. Read more »| 20 Jun 2019 -
Music
Holy Ghost! – Work
Holy Ghost! explore the full spectrum of dance-pop on their new album Work Read more »| 20 Jun 2019