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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MusicJJJJJerome Ellis – Vesper Sparrow
With Vesper Sparrow, JJJJJerome Ellis reasserts himself as one of experimental music’s most original voices Read more »| 11 Nov 2025 -
MusicCall the COPs: Music, people power and climate change
As governments and NGOs assemble in the Brazilian rainforest for the COP30 Climate Change Conference, Scottish musicians are speaking up about climate change Read more »| 11 Nov 2025 -
FilmAlpha
Alpha, the third film from Julia Ducournau, contains some of the transgressive body-horror we've come to expect from this talented French filmmaker, but little of the playful volatility that made films like Raw and Titane so successful Read more »| 11 Nov 2025 -
ArtGray's Glasgow: A Queer, Working-Class Cartography
Inspired by Alasdair Gray's mythologising of Glasgow, an archive-based exhibition maps the city through a queer, working-class lens Read more »| 10 Nov 2025 -
MusicSPRINTS @ SWG3, Glasgow, 6 Nov
Irish rockers SPRINTS excite at their Glasgow show, but never quite hit their stride Read more »| 07 Nov 2025 -
ArtGut Feelings: Get Wet
Rooted in personal discovery, Gut Feelings is a new column that explores how art can be a conduit for memories and sticky emotions. In the launching edition, art writer Megan Rudden responds to Uist Corrigan's exhibition, Get Wet Read more »| 07 Nov 2025
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MusicHatchie – Liquorice
Hatchie mixes sweet and sour on her dreamy third album, Liquorice Read more »| 07 Nov 2025 -
MusicWhite Lies – Night Light
Night Light is one of White Lies' best albums yet, even when it veers into Bryan Adams-esque territory Read more »| 07 Nov 2025 -
MusicKai Reesu win the 2025 SAY Award
Glasgow nu-jazz band Kai Reesu have picked up this year’s SAY Award for their excellent KOMPROMAT vol.i, beating out fellow nominees like Kathryn Joseph, TAAHLIAH and Jacob Alon to the £20,000 prize fund Read more »| 06 Nov 2025 -
Musictoso toso – toso toso
New York collective toso toso emerge fully formed on their spellbinding debut Read more »| 06 Nov 2025 -
MusicThe Dears – Life is Beautiful! Life is Beautiful! Life is Beautiful!
Montreal indie stalwarts The Dears return with a ninth album full of the joys of life Read more »| 06 Nov 2025 -
MusicSpotlight On... Grow Up
Following a sold out debut show and with their second single out now, we catch up with Glasgow garage-punks Grow Up Read more »| 06 Nov 2025 -
BooksIn Love With Love by Ella Risbridger
Ella Risbridger's warm and witty In Love With Love is an intimate and thought-provoking love letter to romance literature Read more »| 06 Nov 2025 -
MusicRóisín McCarney @ King Tut’s, Glasgow, 30 Oct
Róisín McCarney blends charisma, candour and a commanding stage presence in an uplifting performance at King Tut’s Read more »| 04 Nov 2025 -
ArtScottish Art Highlights: November 2025
Fruitmarket presents a major posthumous exhibition dedicated to activist-artist Juane Quick-to-See Smith, while Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊 transforms Tramway into a sub-aquatic world Read more »| 04 Nov 2025