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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MusicThe Lemon Twigs @ Saint Luke's, Glasgow, 10 Sep
The D'Addario brothers are clearly having a lot of fun tonight, and their mix of playfulness and geekery makes them a joy to watch Read more »| 13 Sep 2024 -
MusicThe SAY Award: The 2024 Longlist
The SAY Award 2024 longlist has been announced; here's a look at some of the artists in competition for one of Scotland’s highest musical honours Read more »| 12 Sep 2024 -
MusicSpotlight On... Possibly Jamie
With his latest single Want out today, we catch up with Possibly Jamie to find out more Read more »| 12 Sep 2024 -
ComedyThe Skinny on... MC Hammersmith
The world's leading rapper to emerge from the ghetto of middle class London, MC Hammersmith (aka Will Naameh) follows his sell-out Fringe run with a look back on the acoustic foam panelling that made him Read more »| 12 Sep 2024 -
ArtThe Best of Scottish Design: Dundee Design Festival 2024
Dundee Design Festival lands in the UNESCO City of Design this month, with the chance to see the work of 180 designers all under one roof. We catch up with this year’s festival director, our very own Stacey Hunter, to find out more Read more »| 12 Sep 2024 -
ArtWriting Intimacy: The Skinny Prize 2024
The Skinny meets Samuel Temple – the winner of this year’s The Skinny Prize at RSA New Contemporaries – to learn more about their making process, inspirations and the realities of post-art school life Read more »| 12 Sep 2024
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MusicDame Area – Toda la verdad sobre Dame Area
On their latest album, the Barcelona duo push on in all the right ways, adding further complexity to their sound but never losing their fundamental breakneck intensity Read more »| 10 Sep 2024 -
BooksDear Dickhead by Virginie Despentes
French author Virginie Despentes' latest book draws on an online relationship to look at the ways narratives around the self are constructed Read more »| 10 Sep 2024 -
FilmIn Camera
In Camera takes us inside the life of a jobbing actor. This debut feature from Naqqash Khalid doesn't always hang together, but it's often an audacious and exciting experience Read more »| 10 Sep 2024 -
MusicGia Ford – Transparent Things
Gia Ford demands to be both seen and heard on her vivid debut album Transparent Things Read more »| 09 Sep 2024 -
MusicNilüfer Yanya – My Method Actor
Nilüfer Yanya's third album My Method Actor cements her status as one of most exciting voices of her generation Read more »| 09 Sep 2024 -
FilmNaqqash Khalid on In Camera
The relentless grind of being a jobbing actor of colour in the prejudiced UK film industry becomes the stuff of nightmares in Naqqash Khalid's debut feature In Camera. Khalid talks to us about his bold, thrillingly experimental approach Read more »| 09 Sep 2024 -
BooksCaleb Femi on his house party poetry collection The Wickedest
We chat with Forward Prize-winning poet Caleb Femi about his sophomore poetry collection The Wickedest, which explores the intimate mechanisms of a house party in London Read more »| 09 Sep 2024 -
ArtThe Power of the Unseen: Tayo Adekunle at Edinburgh Printmakers
In her show at Edinburgh Printmakers, Tayo Adekunle finds affinity with a Yoruban Orisha in new photographs, prints and textile works Read more »| 09 Sep 2024 -
MusicLUSA – The Colour of Space track-by-track
Following the release of his debut album as LUSA, Niteworks' Innes Strachan talks us through The Colour of Space track by track Read more »| 06 Sep 2024