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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BooksThe Things I Would Tell You edited by Sabrina Mahfouz
‘Woman like no one is ever going to read you. Woman like you have everything to say.’ In The Things I Would Tell You, edited by Sabrina Mahfouz,... Read more »| 26 Apr 2017 -
MusicTinariwen @ Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, 25 Apr
Freewheeling hippies, awkward students and middle-aged culture vultures; all and sundry have descended on the Queen's Hall for what promises to be a night of... Read more »| 26 Apr 2017 -
Music
Leftfield on Leftism's greatest influences
As Leftfield's seminal debut turns 22 this year, we speak to its creators Neil Barnes and Paul Daley to find out which albums influenced and helped shape Lef... Read more »| 26 Apr 2017 -
ArtEwan Murray @ Telfer Gallery, Glasgow
Ewan Murray's Landscapes, People, Buildings is an insightful and sensitive collection of small paintings. Read more »| 26 Apr 2017 -
Music
The Unthanks @ RNCM, Manchester, 19 Apr
So rarely do we remember the family members behind famous musicians. Even rarer is it that they are fantastic artists in their own right, as was the case wit... Read more »| 26 Apr 2017 -
MusicDeafheaven @ Saint Luke's, Glasgow, 23 Apr
As trite as it is to say, St Luke’s couldn’t be a more suitable venue for the ceremonious, practically spiritual force that is Deafheaven. There&... Read more »| 26 Apr 2017
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Art
This Week in Scottish Art: 25 Apr – 1 May
This week brings music, performance and new exhibitions, as well as a very, very packed weekend with Glasgow Open House Festival, Glasgow Zine Festival and Glasgow Contemporary Art Fair. Read more »| 25 Apr 2017 -
Books
Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
Jeremy works in a video rental store in the small Iowan town he’s lived in all his life when one day his routine is interrupted by the discovery of som... Read more »| 25 Apr 2017 -
Music
Aidan Moffat on the final L. Pierre album
Aidan Moffat bids farewell to L. Pierre with a carefully constructed final offering that picks apart our changing consumer habits and professes the death of vinyl Read more »| 25 Apr 2017 -
MusicSplashh @ Hug & Pint, Glasgow, 24 Apr
It’s almost summer, and nothing says summer like sun-drenched, effects-pedalled indie pop. At The Hug and Pint tonight we’re already gearing up w... Read more »| 25 Apr 2017 -
Music
Thurston Moore – Rock n Roll Consciousness
Hard on the heels of his Watch the Sky collaboration with poet Radieux Radio comes Thurston Moore's latest Read more »| 25 Apr 2017 -
Music
Mark Mulcahy – The Possum in the Driveway
First, some context: Mark Mulcahy is formerly of recently reformed REM-contemporaries Miracle Legion and also Polaris, and responsible for four solo albums o... Read more »| 25 Apr 2017 -
Music
L. Pierre – 1948–
Aidan Moffat bows out of his L. Pierre project, but not before leaving an indelible, eerie commentary on our changing consumer patterns and how they could ki... Read more »| 25 Apr 2017 -
Music
Colin Stetson – All This I Do for Glory
A few years ago a video did the rounds online – a single camera wandered through a house following a deep, thudding, percussive sound, one that was har... Read more »| 25 Apr 2017 -
Music
Mark Lanegan – Gargoyle
At first you might think Lanegan’s tenth solo album, Gargoyle, picks up where 2014’s Phantom Radio left off. You can hear the dark influence... Read more »| 25 Apr 2017