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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MusicScottish Gigs of the Week: 27 Mar – 3 Apr
This week's Edinburgh and Glasgow gig guide, featuring visits from Jens Lekman and Jessy Lanza and a pair of record launches from CHUMP and Stillhound Read more »| 27 Mar 2017 -
BooksConfessions of a Recovering Environmentalist by Paul Kingsnorth
We know from his novels The Wake and Beast that Paul Kingsnorth is a wild and iconoclastic writer. This collection of essays confirms him as a fear... Read more »| 27 Mar 2017 -
Music
Wire – Silver/Lead
Wire emerged alongside the nascent punk movement in the late 70s, but they just as quickly gave up those cheap thrills in search of something more visce... Read more »| 27 Mar 2017 -
Music
Charlotte OC – Careless People
In Charlotte OC’s world, every line has a shadow; 'We keep on running like a river! Riveeeer.' The pop-minded theatricality of her debut album Careless... Read more »| 27 Mar 2017 -
Music
Manuela – Manuela
By the time the second chorus rolls around on Everything Goes, the gauzy, unassuming opener to Manuela’s debut record, you know you’re in good ... Read more »| 27 Mar 2017 -
Music
Saltland – A Common Truth
Let’s get the most important part out of the way before we start wittering on: Rebecca Foon’s second album as Saltland is a bona fide stunner. Po... Read more »| 27 Mar 2017
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MusicCoco Hames – Coco Hames
From the opening salvo of When You Said Goodbye and I Do Love You, you’ll immediately know whether or not you’re going to love Coco Hames. With t... Read more »| 27 Mar 2017 -
Film
My 20th Century
The first feature from Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi – who recently won the Golden Bear for her latest film On Body and Soul – comes t... Read more »| 27 Mar 2017 -
ClubsSlam on 25 years of Soma Records
Slam's Soma 25 stage at Glasgow's upcoming Riverside Festival will celebrate the iconic label's 25th anniversary year – here the dynamic DJ duo reflect on their quarter-century in the game Read more »| 27 Mar 2017 -
Music
Chaz Bundick Meets The Mattson 2 – Star Stuff
Chaz Bundick is a chameleon. Pioneering the chillwave epoch of the early 2010s under the moniker Toro y Moi, he’s since tried his hand at funk, psyched... Read more »| 27 Mar 2017 -
Theatre
Lliam Paterson on Bluebeard's Castle & The 8th Door
Ahead of a new collaboration with Glasgow's Vanishing Point, Scottish Opera’s composer-in-residence Lliam Paterson tells us about reviving and reinventing a seminal Hungarian opera Read more »| 27 Mar 2017 -
Film
Mulholland Drive gets new trailer for its rerelease
Turn-of-the-millennium masterwork Mulholland Drive is coming back to cinemas, and its new trailer takes us back inside David Lynch’s ravishing nightmar... Read more »| 27 Mar 2017 -
Music
Sharing Stories: Martha interview
As Durham's finest prepare to play Manchester Punk Festival, Nathan Stephens-Griffin tells us about punk in 2017, the death of subculture and the importance of indie labels like Fortuna POP! Read more »| 24 Mar 2017 -
Music
Elvis Costello @ Festival Theatre, 18 Mar
After a couple of years on the road, Elvis Costello is bringing his run of Detour shows to a close. The show operates as a sort of intimate retrospective; Co... Read more »| 24 Mar 2017 -
Clubs
Edinburgh Clubbing Highlights: 23-29 Mar
Karnival celebrate 11 years in the capital with Chicago legend Derrick Carter, Manchester's Paleman headlines Headset, plus Denis Sulta celebrates all things Jurassic Park Read more »| 24 Mar 2017