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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ArtThis Week in Scottish Art: 2-8 May
Nicolas Party's new installation at Jupiter Artland and a pair of exhibitions from Glasgow School of Art students feature in this week's art round-up Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Music
Future Islands @ Barrowlands, Glasgow, 27 Apr
Samuel T. Herring secured his legacy with his legendary performance on Letterman back in 2014. Now he has the task of living up to his well-earned reputation... Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
MusicMADES – Never Lonely (Video Premiere)
Watch the debut music video from MADES for debut single, Never Lonely Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
MusicPond on new album The Weather
Pond guitarist Joe Ryan talks impending nuclear threat, colonialism, and producing with Kevin Parker ahead of the Aussie group's seventh album The Weather Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
FilmJulian Barratt's spoof song as his Mindhorn character
A deliriously sexy piece of 80s "erotic power-rock" from Mindhorn's Richard Thorncroft, titled You Can't Handcuff The Wind, has been unearthed ahead of the film's release Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Music
Japandroids @ The Garage, Glasgow, 30 Apr
The support for tonight's show, Dasher, set an immediately intense tone with their powerful, grungy guitars, extremely prominent drums and heavy vocals. Feed... Read more »| 02 May 2017
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Music
Los Campesinos! @ Stereo, Glasgow, 28 Apr
Facilitated by the unprecedented four-year gap between No Blues and Sick Scenes, LC! have managed to transition from peppy, twee upstarts to veterans on... Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: May 2017 Horoscopes
Sleepworking, sausages and get-rich-quick schemes feature in Mystic Mark's premonitions of the month ahead Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Music
Fat Goth – Enorme!
Picture the scene in David Lynch’s Wild at Heart: Laura Dern’s Lula is driving the big open top car as Nick Cage’s Sailor sleeps in the bac... Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Music
Twelfth Day – Cracks in the Room
For a decade now, fiddler Catriona Price and harpist Esther Swift have been making challenging, interesting, virtuostic music that is far more than the sum o... Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Music
Penguin Cafe – The Imperfect Sea
Arthur Jeffes’ decision to resurrect the name and sound of his late father’s iconic instrumental project looked an unlikely proposition when he s... Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Music
Perfume Genius – No Shape
Only Perfume Genius could conjure a fairy tale from these troubling times. No Shape documents deep lows and the most glittering of highs; harsh and lush in e... Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Music
Pond – The Weather
Psychedelic princelings Pond are back with their most conventionally named album yet – but don’t let that fool you. Cosmic and colourful, The Wea... Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Music
Forest Swords – Compassion
It’s hard to place Compassion, the third album by Liverpool-based producer and artist Matthew Barnes aka Forest Swords – but then that&rsquo... Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Music
Slowdive – Slowdive
It pays to be wary when bands of yore come reforming, the suspicion all-too-often one of bank balance replenishment posing as creative renaissance. This is ... Read more »| 02 May 2017